Open positions on the Board of Student Representatives

AsBishop’s students acclimatize to the winter semester, on-campus events and opportunities are opening up. January marks a time of many deadlines for applications for extracurricular and student government positions. In the last week of January, the deadline for the B.E.S.T Project Fund and two positions on the SRC Board of Student Representatives (BSR) have passed. As working students who were well-established on campus have graduated or retired from their positions, a plethora of leadership opportunities have become available to the general student body. These positions are typically posted on the SRC’s Instagram and Facebook pages, as well as emailed to the student body and posted on the SRC website.

Several emails have recently been sent to student accounts, encouraging members of the student body to apply for several open positions on the BSR. Most recently, the SRC was hiring for the positions of Equity Representative and Vice President of Student Life, the deadline for applications having passed on Jan. 25. Interested candidates were instructed to send a letter of intent or 250-word candidate statement, and will be interviewed by the hiring committee in the near future. Successful applicants will begin their positions at the BSR meeting on Monday, Jan. 30.

The chosen Equity Representative will be paid an honorarium of $260 for approximately 5-10 hours per week of work between Feb. 1 and April 30. The VP of Student Life will be paid $5,000 total in bi-weekly increments for 25 hours a week of work between the same time frame. Applicants can be full- or part-time students at Bishop’s, and those who are interested in the VP Position

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must also be present on campus between May 1, 2022, and April 30, 2023.

The VP will be a voting member on several SRC and university committees, and assign student representatives to sit on other university committees. The Equity Representative, while not expected to participate in committees to the same extent, will be expected to attend committees as asked, co-chair the SRC Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee and may be expected to sit on university hiring committees. While these are the first openings on the BSR this semester, in the fall semester, after the election period, the BSR sent out emails regarding openings in the positions of School of Education Student Senator, On-Campus Representative, Graduate Student Senator, and Humanities Academic Senator. Only 23 per cent of students participated in the student elections at the beginning of the academic year. With the elections for the 2023-2024 Executive Team on the horizon in February, the SRC will have another opportunity to engage the student population and examine voting turnout.