STUDENT LIFE & DEVELOPMENT
The office will develop, deliver, and evaluate training, research and capacity development solutions that directly contribute to the successful achievement of the objectives of the DSA.
The training programme consists of ongoing educational programmes undertaken to improve students’ knowledge, skills, attitude, and social behaviour so that the performance of the department improves considerably. It includes:
- Conducting a training need analysis.
- Identifying internal and external training service providers.
- Providing co-curriculum training and development programs to enhance academic excellence and social cohesion of students.
- Promoting and developing co-operative governance through student participation in various forums.
- Designing and implementing student leadership training and development strategies to ensure effective leadership.
- Contributing to a quality learning experience.
- Developing and implementing SRC development, student leadership development, Clubs & Society development and leadership programmes that enhance Graduateness; and
- Monitoring and evaluating training programmes
STRATEGIC PRIORITIES
- Student governance and leadership development
- Holistic student experience and co-curricular opportunities
- Student governance elections
- Stakeholder network and public engagement
CO-CURRICULAR PROGRAMMES
- SPU Green Campus Initiative (GCI)
- SPU Drama Club
- Student Leadership Developments Programmes
- SPU Choir
- Student Entrepreneurship
Student Affairs Leadership conversations: Leadership conversations aims to broaden student engagement and debates, to sharpen their analytical, presentation and writing skills.
Africa Day celebration: This is an Edu-Entertainment event: Creative writing competition, Cultural performance: Cultural performance, Africa day lecture, Speeches, stalls, African attires & Cultural dishes
Youth Day Lecture/Webinar
Women Day celebration: Celebrate the heroine struggle of August 1955
Heritage Day celebration: Erfenisdag, Usuku Lwamagugu, Usuku Lwamasiko
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The involvement of students across student affairs and university initiatives will be rewarded through the Student Affairs Awards to be held annually at the end of each academic year.
The categories are as follow:
- Student Governance Leadership
- Student Leadership
- Social Responsibility
- Entrepreneurship
- Student Mentoring
- Student Tutoring
- Academic Support
- Student Orientation
- Sports Awards
- Student Assistants
- Overall Achiever of the Year – male
- Overall Achiever of the Year – female
- Vice Rector’s Outstanding Achievement Award
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GCI is a dynamic programme that conducts research, pioneer technological innovations, engage schools, staff, students and encourage community partnerships.
The SPU GCI team aims at addressing the climate change challenges by reducing global warming emissions and by integrating sustainability into the curriculum to better serve students and meet social mandate to help create a thriving, ethical and civil society.
By taking on this responsibility, ensuring that we provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to address critical, systematic challenges faced by the world in this new century and enable them to benefit from the economic opportunities that will arise because of the solutions
GCI GOALS
- To preserve natural resources for the future generation
- To provide waste management solutions through recycling
- To promote a clean environment
- To reduce carbon footprint at SPU and its surrounding
- To reduce the water and energy consumption
- To conduct research and design context intervention strategies that address climate change challenges
- To identify and foster strategic partnership with key stakeholders towards the promotion of environmental sustainability
- To create a platform for students to express themselves through art
- To promote and influence the mind-set of communities towards environmental consciousness
GCI KEY PROJECTS
- I Love My Campus (SPU): A Zero-Littering Campaign “Let us take care of our environment so that it can also take care of us”.
- Eco-Anxiety Project: fear of environmental damage or ecological disaster. This sense of anxiety is largely based on the current and predicted future state of the environment and human-induced climate change.
- Positive Intervention to support a Waterwise Campus: To improve student and staff understanding of the waterwise planting principles, planting of succulent plants in various planters and to promote the development of a future food security garden for self-catering students with Senior Management.
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Read more about the SPU GCI here.
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