With four positions uncontested and one position contested, the 2021-2022 Faculty of Arts Students’ Association (FASA) council was announced on April 8.
President Mateusz Salmassi, a third year psychology international student, cited budget cuts, tuition hikes, performance-based funding and healthier academic regulations as desired points of change in his platform. His platform points spoke to building issue-based FASA campaigns “designed to go beyond advocacy,” creating a VP Student Organizing role, expanding the Arts Undergraduate Research Symposium (AURS), collaborations and working with the Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS) and continuing to fight for “Equity, Diversity, Inclusion and Justice” through various actions.
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Alberta’s NDP is joining post-secondary students in a call to action for changes to UCP budget cuts, which they say will result in tuition hikes, reduced access to post-secondary education and less opportunity to diversify the province’s struggling economy.
In an outdoor event at the University of Calgary on Tuesday, NDP Leader Rachel Notley and NDP Advanced Education critic David Eggen joined students in calling for a reversal of $690-million in cuts to post-secondary, freezing tuition until the pandemic ends, stopping hikes to student loan interest rates and halting the move toward performance-based funding.
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