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Senate Caucus Biweekly Report: Sept 26th 2017 – Oct 9th 2017

Read the report here. Read the highlights after the jump.

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Blog The Senators' Corner

Senate Caucus Biweekly Report: Sept 5th – 25th 2017

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Blog Highlights Team UA

University Affairs Final Report 2016-2017

Change at McGill University is most often defined by incremental progress rather than overnight transformation. During the 2016-2017 year, the SSMU University Affairs portfolio has successfully pushed forward numerous initiatives to address critical academic, equity, and support issues facing undergraduate students. The University Affairs Final Report highlights some of these collective achievements in the areas of […]

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Alternative histories

The African Studies Committee provides a development plan for the McGill University Africana Studies Program Initiative.

[timeline_excerpt]The development plan was extremely methodical and detailed. It included everything from a statement explaining why such a program is necessary to the complete estimated financial cost, per step, of the entire project and the estimated funding long term funding requirements.[/timeline_excerpt]

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The Black Student’s Network compiles an anti-Black police brutality document.

[timeline_excerpt]The document was composed of newspaper clippings from various sources and examples of similar cases in Toronto and New York.[/timeline_excerpt]

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Indigenous students threaten to leave Canadian Federation of Students.

[timeline_excerpt]Indigenous students threatened to leave the Canadian Federation of Students, of which SSMU was a member, unless the national student lobby group made better representation of Indigenous issues a priority. Many Indigenous students claimed that the CFS was simply not addressing the many concerns of Indigenous students – including treaty rights, self-determination, land claims and […]