The Dalhousie Student Union’s (DSU) democratic governance review is postponed until the winter term, according to DSU president Ramz Aziz. He said he’s working on a proposal for the governance review.
Aziz said that council is finalizing election and round two policies, as well as preoccupied with the issue of Dalhousie’s divestment from fossil fuel companies.
In a Sept. 5 interview with the Gazette, Aziz said he intended to propose an internal governance review within the first few meetings of council. The DSU decided not to participate in Students Nova Scotia’s (SNS) democratic governance review of student unions across the province.
On the same day the interview was conducted, Aziz’s whiteboard read “governance” as his number one priority for the year.
The DSU and SNS have similar objectives for their respective reports: how to engage student participation through better representation in council by asking students more about what they want.
Less than 11 per cent of the student body voted in the last DSU election – the lowest voter turnout in at least a decade.
SNS Executive Director Jonathan Williams said that a draft of his organization’s democratic governance review is going to be reviewed by an advisory committee this month. The review is expected to be finalized in January.
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