New Brunswick Student Alliance
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| Location | Fredericton, New Brunswick |
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| Established | 1982 |
| Affiliations | CASA |
| Website | NBSA Official Web Page |
The New Brunswick Student Alliance/L'Alliance étudiante du Nouveau-Brunswick (NBSA/AÉNB) is a bilingual student advocacy organization which operates in New Brunswick, Canada. Representing over 12,000 post-secondary students at four university campuses across the province, the NBSA works to convey student issues, concerns, and perspectives to the provincial, federal and inter-provincial government. The NBSA works with the province, university administrators and faculty, and other stakeholders toward its goal of an affordable, accessible, and high-quality post-secondary education system in New Brunswick.
The NBSA has existed in one form or another since 1982. In its first inception it was referred to as the New Brunswick Coalition of Students. The current title was adopted and held from 1983 until the incorporation of the Canadian Federation of Students - New Brunswick (CFS-NB in 1990). Eight years later, in 1998, it returned to an independent student advocacy organization under the NBSA name and broke all ties with the CFS. Throughout all of this, the main vision of a post-secondary education has remained the same.
The current organizational structure consists of two elected executives and a full-time executive director, working out of an office in Fredericton, New Brunswick. The two executive positions may be held by any student who is a member. The Board of Directors of the NBSA consists, in general, of the Vice-President Externals of member student unions (or VP Education in the case of the St. Thomas University Students' Union) as the voting members and the associated Presidents as observers. All student members are permitted to attend Board meetings and/or participate on committees.
The NBSA has been very vocal in the past as New Brunswick went through multiple initiatives to report and improve on its post-secondary education system. These include the Commission on Post-secondary Education [1] report "Advantage New Brunswick: A province reaches to fulfill its destiny,[2] the Working Group Report [3] and the final Government of New Brunswick "Action Plan to Transform Post-secondary Education".[4] In addition to being active during the 2014 provincial election, the organization continues to actively meet with Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) to provide elected officials with a look into the post-secondary student experience, and to provide suggestions for improving the system in the short- and long-term. [5]
Executive Director
Lindsay Handren
Current Executive
Chair: Annie Sherry (Mount Allison Students' Union)
Vice-Chair: Katie Davey (University of New Brunswick Student Union)
Current members
- Mount Allison Students’ Union (MASU) [6]
- University of New Brunswick Student Union (UNBSU) [7]
- University of New Brunswick Saint John Student Representative Council (UNB SRC) [8]
- St. Thomas University Students' Union (STUSU) [9]
References
- ↑ http://www.gnb.ca/cpse-ceps/
- ↑ http://www.gnb.ca/cpse-ceps/EN/docs/CEPNB_cahier_ang_LR.pdf
- ↑ http://www.gnb.ca/Promos/PSE/RecommendationsWG-e.pdf
- ↑ http://www.gnb.ca/Promos/PSE/index-e.asp
- ↑ http://nbsa-aenb.ca/images/Education_Works_WEB.pdf
- ↑ http://sac.mta.ca/
- ↑ http://unbsu.ca/
- ↑ http://www.unbsrc.ca/
- ↑ http://www.stusu.ca/en/default.aspx
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