Students Nova Scotia (Students NS), formerly known as the Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations (ANSSA), is an alliance of some Nova Scotia post-secondary student associations. Its stated aim is to give students a voice in Nova Scotia with government and the public, helping set the direction of post-secondary education by researching challenges, identifying solutions, and creating the political space needed for these solutions to happen.
Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations (ANSSA)
Its six member associations represent close to 18,000 students on campuses across the province.
StudentsNS is governed by a board of directors composed of presidents and vice-presidents from each member association. The executive director manages the day-to-day operations of the organization's staff.
Historyedit
Students Nova Scotia or StudentsNS was founded in 2003 as the Alliance of Nova Scotia Student Associations (ANSSA). At that time, students had identified an urgent need for a united voice in Nova Scotia, where they faced the highest tuition in Canada, underfunded universities, no needs-based grants, all leading to a steady decline in enrolment levels across the province.
The new organization was formed to advocate on behalf of students with all levels of government, with institutions, in the media, and within Nova Scotia communities. It was, and is, focused on post-secondary education across the province, not just on single campuses.
In 2012, members overwhelmingly approved a funding increase in support of ANSSA, paving the way for the organization to substantially increase research, media and engagement capacities, notably by hiring two additional staff. To better facilitate the use of these increased resources, in 2012 ANSSA also pursued significant restructuring, and renamed itself Students Nova Scotia.
On Friday February 27, 2015, the Dalhousie Student Union council passed a motion to disaffiliate from SNS.[2]
Referencesedit
All references taken from StudentsNS website unless otherwise stated
^David, Marie. "AST Wants In on University Politics". Retrieved 11 October 2012.
^"DSU council votes to leave, releases statement on systemic sexism within Students Nova Scotia". 4 March 2015.
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Students Nova Scotia.
www.anssa.ca
January 01, 1970
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