>[!External Links]+ >Taken from [HEPI-Students-Unions-Report-111-FINAL-EMBARGOED1.pdf](hook://file/u9KhyxbDj?p=MTAyIC0gU3RyYXRlZ2ljIFBsYW4vU3RyYXRlZ2ljIFBsYW5uaW5nIDIwMTgtMjAxOQ==&n=HEPI%2DStudents%2DUnions%2DReport%2D111%2DFINAL%2DEMBARGOED1%2Epdf) - see [[Student Officers]] * many students’ unions identified achievement gaps and some of the salient student behaviour / equality and diversity issues long before the sector was required to act. Yet this also means that students’ unions tend to be a focus of contemporary culture wars debates. [See here](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=61) ## [Student Activities](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=64) * We ought to want every student engaged in higher education to take part in opportunities beyond the formal curriculum, ensuring activities are led by students and are of a high quality. * Many students’ unions consider how their ==events and programmes build both bonding social capital and bridging social capital that cause social mixing between disparate groups==. A number of students’ unions are trialling transformational residential models of social mixing. * We should facilitate participation in activities that require less commitment. ## [Page 67](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=66) * dedicated internationalisation strategy, electing dedicated officers, working to boost participation in international societies, ==encouraging more activity that mixes international students with home students and developing global partnerships with student organisations==. As the idea of the ‘doctoral college’ has taken hold, many have developed dedicated provision for postgraduate students, with leadership roles and student activity more closely aligned to the rhythms and concerns of \(in particular\) postgraduate students. ## [Page 68](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=67) * Models of participatory democracy are being trialled on wicked policy problems and community partners engaged more extensively. * dedicated strategies for students with non- traditional study patterns that are led by them and focus on first principles. ## [Page 69](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=68) * positive culture change within student sport – using events and activators to focus on team work, social leadership, equality, diversity and performance * Many students’ unions are focused on place, and take the lead on Community Action and Volunteering, improving the positive impact students have on a locality or region ## [Page 70](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=69) * Practice: student advocacy * Many students’ unions now ==have a formal research and insight strategy==. ## [Page 71](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=70) * ==If a sabbatical officer persuades a vice-chancellor not to do something in a forest and no-one is around to hear it, did they make a sound?== ## [Page 74](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=73) * students’ unions and universities are collaborating on a strategy for student employment. This improves the range, quality and pay of part-time work opportunities taken up by students, in many cases offers exemplar recruitment and selection practice and enables students to boost employability from their experience. ## [Page 75](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=74) * Trading operations run as social enterprises often complement universities’ student enterprise goals. * Truly ‘sticky campuses’ not only need power sockets, coffee and social learning spaces, they ==also need space for students to meet, practise, perform and plan==. In many cases of the ==American concept of the ‘third space’ (focused on enjoyment, regularity, pure sociability, and apparent diversity) and the Scandinavian concept of ‘studenthuset’ (‘student houses’ run by and for students) are being researched==, imported and incorporated into estates strategies. ## [Page 80](x-devonthink-item://9B44F87F-D23E-43E8-8C1B-DEF04AA354AB?page=79) * ==all, the practice observed most commonly in institutional cultures – the induction of student leaders into the culture, practice and workings of universities – could usefully be turned on its head==