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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cStudents are allowed to campaign on their behalf, or if they have friends who want to campaign for them, that\u2019s allowed, you just have to be within the limits of October 8 until October 23,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cThen October 24 to 26 is the actual voting period, and it\u2019s going to be online, so we\u2019re going to be sending the links the day of, with the list of nominees, how to vote, and everything about the voting process. Everything will be given to students the day of… and it\u2019s online, so it\u2019s super easy and something that takes less than three minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Voting gives students a chance to be involved in issues that impact them, such as student fees.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith all the money they\u2019re paying to the CCSS every semester in student fees, we do feel like it\u2019s important for students to be there and see what their money is being used for,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cSo, all the events that are happening on campus are a way for students to know how much money is being spent and how much effort is being put into student life, because I feel like most students don\u2019t really know how much effort is being put into all these events and services we are providing for them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Whether they\u2019re part of the CCSS board of directors or researching nominees and voting, Niikoi hopes that students understand the CCSS deals with a lot of important concerns relating to students.<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes it turns into people thinking that student societies are just a face,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cThat they don\u2019t actually do stuff. The kind of board we have, you have long-term staff. It\u2019s just nice to see how much effort is being put into things provided to students specifically, because, as a member of the board, I get to see what they\u2019re doing every time they have board meetings… It\u2019s important for students to be on the board to see what their money is getting used for and also for the fact that they\u2019re going to be part of the experience of giving to other students.\u201d<\/p>\n
Niikoi says that she\u2019s enjoying her experience as CCSS external executive because she gets to have a direct impact on students\u2019 lives. Since the CCSS is part of the British Columbia Federation of Students (BCFS) and Canadian Alliance of Student Associations (CASA), it helped influence the government to lift the 20-hour-per-work-week limit for international students (see News Briefs<\/i>, below).<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonally, it\u2019s been a great experience being on the board because we have different positions both provincially and federally, so being a part of the BCFS and CASA, there is so much advocacy and so much work being done for students,\u201d says Niikoi. \u201cEven with the 20-hour work limit being lifted, it was the work of CASA and BCFS because they have been asking this for years. It\u2019s just nice to know that being a part of that kind of change, a major change, is affecting our international students as well as our own. It\u2019s just something that makes me happy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Camosun College Student Society (CCSS) elections will be open for online voting from October 24 to October 26, with several positions vacant. CCSS external executive Jessie Niikoi is hopeful that the student society will have a complete board\u2014which would mean filling positions like the international and pride representatives\u2014for the upcoming term. The campaigning period […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,275],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-october-19-2022"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23144,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23143\/revisions\/23144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}