FXU Big Wins so Far!

Below is our list of big wins for the first term of the 2015/16 academic year. With your help, and your priorities in mind, we have managed to have a successful year for you the students so far.

Check out what the FXU Presidents have been up to and already achieved!

FXU President Community & Welfare - Alexa Webster:

• Worked with Amanda (FXU President Student Experience) and the Estates Team to make The Chapel fully accessible
   
• White Poppies now available during Remembrance 
   
• Provided work experience for 9 students
   
• Documented her Hijab Experience with ISOC for the Falmouth Anchor
   
• #NoBlurredLines fridge magnets are now in every student halls kitchen
   
•  #NoBlurredLines campaign sent to every Student Union nationally
   
• #FXULovesYou campaign online
   
• Hosted drop in sessions averaging 8 students a week
   
• Arranged and hosted a Faith Fayre
   
• Shelley Asquith (NUS Vie-President Welfare) visited for the Faith Fayre
   
• First ever Liberation Committee formed
   
• Permanent funding secured for a wider selection of condoms and sexual protection
   
• Elected to the NUS Welfare Zone Committee

FXU President Student Experience - Amanda Chetwynd-Cowieson:
 

• Out of term time bus prices down to £1 – moving towards £1 all year round!
   
• Car parking tickets weren’t chased up for the week when spaces were taken away prematurely
   
• Car parking spaces released back for student use in January 2016.
   
• Helped organise a New Years Eve brunch for international students who remained here over the Christmas break.
   
• Richard Brooks (NUS Vice President Union Development) hosted the Committee conference and in general loved all things FXU and Cornwall.
   
• Increased money in the Falmouth hardship fund reflecting that international students can now apply
   
• Worked with Alexa (FXU President Community & Welfare) and the estates team to make the chapel fully accessible
   
• Helped students with their applications for the SLEPF (Student Led Event and Project Funding), Annual Fund and Green Fund
   
• FXU provided study spaces during January exams/deadlines due to student feedback about overcrowding in the library
   
• Hosted the Falmouth Deputy Mayor and Penryn Town Mayor at the FXU Orchestra Christmas extravaganza
   
• Food trucks will have a trial on the Woodlane Campus
   
• Work has started to make the Lower Stannary more friendly for students working in the evening
   
• Collaboration with The Falmouth Anchor on the ‘In The Spotlight’ section highlighting clubs and societies achievements  

FXU President Falmouth - Fred Mallin:

• 2 PhD students got dedicated work space, support and supervisors
   
• MFA now have clearer course structure and course reps, appropriate work space and course reps
   
• Falmouth mentors now have dedicated Erasmus and Study Abroad mentors
   
• Fred (FXU President Falmouth) will now be included at an earlier stage in the course suspension and cessation process
   
• Hosted a Study Abroad returners event
   
• Better clarification surrounding the appeals process
   
• Financial Transparency – additional costs are now published online
   
• Falmouth are now producing a cross-subsidisation document

FXU President Exeter - Grace Fisher:

• FXU provided study spaces during January exams/deadlines due to student feedback about overcrowding in the library
   
• Held coffee and cake sessions with Exeter medical students in Truro
   
• Wifi will be in the Knowledge Spa common room in Truro from April 2016
   
• Truro based Exeter students have access to the FXU and The Compass website
   
• Hosted a Study Abroad returners event
   
• Hosted a study abroad Q & A for students looking to go abroad next year
   
• PGT Subject chair training held for the first time and they now have SSLC’s
   
• PGR Networking event (With Alice Nicholls – FXU Widening Student Participation Assistant)
   
• Successful ‘town hall’ style meetings held allowing open feedback to senior management
   
• Worked with Tom Murray-Richards to initiate SID (Student Information Desk) office hours
   
• Tim Quine (DVC Education) visited Cornwall and held a feedback session with students
   
• Cornwall based Exeter students will no longer receive emails from Exeter Guild

Collective wins from all FXU Presidents:

• More candidates stood in the FXU Part Time Officer, Liberation Committee and Council Elections
   
• More students voted in the FXU Part Time Officer, Liberation Committee and Council Elections
   
• Hosted a fully packed Presidents Quiz
   
• Hosted successful Exec training
   
• Held a successful UGM (Union General Meeting) on the topic of student growth
   
• Co-ordinated and hosted the International Student Arrivals weekend
   
• All First Year cohorts met the Presidents at least twice
   
• Penryn Town Mayor attended the Freshers Fayre and was overly impressed with the clubs, societies, volunteering groups and RAD
   
• Arranged a Candlelit Vigil