New Brunswick Student Alliance
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The New Brunswick Student Alliance/L'Alliance étudiante du Nouveau-Brunswick (NBSA/AÉNB) is a bilingual student
lobby group which operates in New Brunswick
, Canada
. Representing over 16,500 students across the province on 6 university
and one community college campuses, the NBSA aims to represent their students' views to the provincial
, federal
and inter-provincial government
. Fighting for affordable, accessible and quality education within the province, the NBSA works with the province, university officials and other stakeholders to ensure these goals are met.
The NBSA has existed in one form or another since 1982. In its first inception it was referred to as the New Brunswick Coalition of Students. The current title was adopted and held from 1983 until the incorporation of CFS-NB in 1990. Eight years later, in 1998, the return to an independent student lobbying organization under the NBSA name occurred and CFS-NB disappeared. Throughout all of this, the main vision of a post-secondary education has remained the same.
The organizational structure of the NBSA has changed greatly over the years. It has run with a dedicated office in the provincial capital or Moncton with one full-time staff member (the executive director), to a one person part-time position run out of a member school's office space. The current structure consists of an elected three member executive (President, Vice-president External and Vice-president Operations). The executive positions may be held by any student who is a member of the NBSA. There is an executive director working at head office in Frederiction. The Board of Directors of the NBSA consists, in general, of the Vice-president externals of the student unions (or VP Education in the case of the St. Thomas University Students' Union) as the voting members and the presidents as observers. Any student members are also allowed to attend Board meetings or participate in committees.
The NBSA has been very vocal during the past two years as New Brunswick has gone through three reports on post-secondary education in the province. These include the Commission on Post-secondary Education report "Advantage New Brunswick: A province reaches to fulfill its destiny, the Working Group Report and the final Government of New Brunswick "Action Plan to Transform Post-secondary Education".
Secretary: Joelle Martin (FÉÉCUM)
Treasurer: Jordan Thompson (UNBSU)
St. Thomas University Students' Union
(STUSU)
Student
A student is a learner, or someone who attends an educational institution. In some nations, the English term is reserved for those who attend university, while a schoolchild under the age of eighteen is called a pupil in English...
lobby group which operates in New Brunswick
New Brunswick
New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only province in the federation that is constitutionally bilingual . The provincial capital is Fredericton and Saint John is the most populous city. Greater Moncton is the largest Census Metropolitan Area...
, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
. Representing over 16,500 students across the province on 6 university
University
A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...
and one community college campuses, the NBSA aims to represent their students' views to the provincial
Province
A province is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state.-Etymology:The English word "province" is attested since about 1330 and derives from the 13th-century Old French "province," which itself comes from the Latin word "provincia," which referred to...
, federal
Canadian federalism
Canada is a federation with two distinct jurisdictions of political authority: the country-wide federal government and the ten regionally-based provincial governments. It also has three territorial governments in the far north, though these are subject to the federal government...
and inter-provincial government
Government
Government refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
. Fighting for affordable, accessible and quality education within the province, the NBSA works with the province, university officials and other stakeholders to ensure these goals are met.
The NBSA has existed in one form or another since 1982. In its first inception it was referred to as the New Brunswick Coalition of Students. The current title was adopted and held from 1983 until the incorporation of CFS-NB in 1990. Eight years later, in 1998, the return to an independent student lobbying organization under the NBSA name occurred and CFS-NB disappeared. Throughout all of this, the main vision of a post-secondary education has remained the same.
The organizational structure of the NBSA has changed greatly over the years. It has run with a dedicated office in the provincial capital or Moncton with one full-time staff member (the executive director), to a one person part-time position run out of a member school's office space. The current structure consists of an elected three member executive (President, Vice-president External and Vice-president Operations). The executive positions may be held by any student who is a member of the NBSA. There is an executive director working at head office in Frederiction. The Board of Directors of the NBSA consists, in general, of the Vice-president externals of the student unions (or VP Education in the case of the St. Thomas University Students' Union) as the voting members and the presidents as observers. Any student members are also allowed to attend Board meetings or participate in committees.
The NBSA has been very vocal during the past two years as New Brunswick has gone through three reports on post-secondary education in the province. These include the Commission on Post-secondary Education report "Advantage New Brunswick: A province reaches to fulfill its destiny, the Working Group Report and the final Government of New Brunswick "Action Plan to Transform Post-secondary Education".
Current Executive
President: Joey O'Kane (UNBSU)Secretary: Joelle Martin (FÉÉCUM)
Treasurer: Jordan Thompson (UNBSU)
Current members
- La Fédération des étudiants et étudiantes du centre universitaire de Moncton (FÉÉCUM)
- Mount Allison Students’ Administrative Council (MtA SAC)
- University of New Brunswick Student Union (UNBSU)
- Association générale des étudiants et étudiantes de l’université de Moncton campus Edmundston (AGÉÉ UMCE)
- Association étudiante du collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick campus Dieppe (CCNB-Dieppe)
St. Thomas University Students' Union
St. Thomas University Students' Union
The St. Thomas University Students' Union represents students at St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. They provide many services to students at STU, such as a Used Book Room, Help Desk, SafeWheels, pre-legal advice, emergency bursaries and external lobbying...
(STUSU)
- Association étudiante de l’Université de Moncton, campus de Shippagan (AÉUMCS)