Highlighting outstanding student-led initiatives on campus – plain and simple, that is the fundamental pillar of the SLC Of the Month Award. Launching this year, the SLC Of the Month Award aims to provide a fresh perspective and recognize the missions, visions, and ideas that have spawned through the innovation and collaboration of student minds.
Every month leading up to the conference, the SLC Planning Committee will recognize a student-driven resource, organization, or collective that works to better the community, develop leaders for tomorrow, and provide opportunities for growth, and ownership.
Nominations for this award are open monthly! Please fill in the online nomination form.
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NOVEMBER SLC ‘OF THE MONTH’ WINNER
Conference for learning and academic success (CLASS)
Photo courtesy of: CLASS
Transitioning to the taxing academic environment of university can be overwhelming. Many students may wonder, what resources are available? Am I the only one feeling this way? How can I achieve what I’ve set out to accomplish in this new environment? Luckily, a group of students realized that one way to ease this process is to empower students with knowledge from their peers themselves.
UBC’s Conference for Learning and Academic Success, or CLASS, is a weeklong initiative dedicated to helping new to UBC students achieve academic excellence, and personal wellness during their transition into the university lifestyle. With mentorship opportunities, resource fairs, and general, as well as program-specific workshops, CLASS ensures that students from all walks of UBC campus will have something to gain academically, and personally, from their programming.
As with any conference, the logistical process can be tedious. The all-student planning committee began their creative processes the year prior, reflecting on the successes and tribulations from the previous conference. Countless meetings over the summer and succinct communication ensured that every individual was on the same page throughout the lengthy planning process, and that every member of the committee had a voice in the overall outcome. Motivated by their own personal academic experiences at UBC, this past year’s planning team showed to be one of the strongest in the program’s history. After a complete overhaul of the conference’s structure, strenuous work, and a critical approach to every discussion, the 2011 conference saw a record number of attendees and positive feedback.
CLASS is breaking through academia – by supporting their fellow peers, and empowering students with the knowledge and resources to achieve their goals while at UBC.
To find out more about CLASS, or how to get involved, visit them online.
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OCTOBER SLC ‘OF THE MONTH’ WINNER
UBC NRHH – Thunderbird chapter
The (UBC) Thunderbird Chapter of the National Residence Hall Honorary (NRHH) strives for one basic goal – to ensure that the great programs, leaders, students of UBC residences are getting the recognition that they deserve. Now in their third year, the Thunderbird chapter is the first Canadian chapter of the NRHH – a predominantly-American organization of affiliates with all similar goals.
Since its incumbency into the international organization, the UBC chapter has already made its presence known through numerous regional, and international awards, and through the consistent reputable quality of each and every award bid. The students on the committee strive for excellence, and through the support of each other, have explored the boundaries of recognition, and have developed programs that have led to a never-before-seen experience seen in residence. Despite the famed reputation the Thunderbird chapter has established, they continue to build upon past accomplishments and successes, and look for dynamic and innovative new ways to push their organization.
The NRHH is breaking through development – they exemplify a group that can start from scratch and hit the ground running with the help of dedicated members, and utter determination.
Living vicariously through the recognition of the students, and showing that UBC is an international institution to be reckoned with, the UBC Thunderbird Chapter of the NRHH is October’s SLC ‘Of the Month’ winner.
To find out more about the Thunderbird Chapter of the NRHH, or how to get involved, visit them online.
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SEPTEMBER SLC ‘OF THE MONTH’ WINNER
UBC Farm
Photo courtesy of: The UBC Farm
Located on a beautiful 24 hectare learning and research farm, the UBC Farm does more than just provide a picturesque landscape and provide a top-quality product – its primary philosophy is to explore and reveal the possibilities of better and healthier communities by integrating sustainable practices and food production methods through research, innovation, education, and community outreach. It is a place of engagement; educating and supporting ecological, economic, social, and educational interests through discourse and sustainable practices. Though the title of ‘UBC Farm’ rings a bell to many, it is through the hard work of students that this green powerhouse came to fruition.
Student-driven, the farm is an excellent example of how a seemingly basic idea can reach incredible heights through relentless effort, perseverance, and teamwork.
The UBC Farm is breaking through urbanity – about teaching us all that we can create an agricultural paradise in the paramount citified environment in which we all reside, and, that sometimes the simplest things in life are what can benefit us the most.
A breath of fresh air from outside the musky whelms of the classroom, the UBC Farm is the September ‘Of the Month’ Winner of the 2012 Student Leadership Conference.
To find out more about the UBC Farm, or to find out how to get involved, visit them online.
