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1: Student Support Officer
2: Elle Gray
3: Adam Mogford
4: Gareth Guyll
5: Anjola-Oluwa Adeniyi

Anjola-Oluwa Adeniyi

Student Support Officer

I acknowledge your efforts in supporting our Student Union, I appreciate the time you have put in to make the right vote and I have no doubt that the outcome would be worthy of your effort.

This day I am indulging your support and asking for your vote, the final say is yours. Therefore, I Anjola-Oluwa (Anjiie) Adeniyi, a final year BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems student is running for the post of Student Support Officer.

Why vote for Anjiie?

As an international student with a very sociable and public spirit attitude, I have had the opportunity to mix with student (and lecturers) of diverse ethnic, cultural and religious background and gaining in the process a vast understanding of their different lifestyles and academic challenges.

Amongst my Chinese friends, I am called “Blackanese”; amongst my Greek friends, I am called “Agelos”, my very hospitable British friends call me “Anjiie”

For the same reason of a public and social spirit, I have won awards like “Most Wanted Guy 2002/2003” and “Best Dressed Male 2003/2004” from the Afro-Caribbean Society. Therefore, I can relate well to students whatever their background and faith. International students are a big lot in the university population, their well-being should therefore be high priority to the Student Support Officer, and that would be my priority. My various experiences as an international student, positions me to understand the challenges of both foreign and home students.

What Anjiie will do for you?

• I will continue to embrace all students, irrespective of their cultural, ethnic, or religious background; I will listen and strive to understand (as a priority) your complaints, so that our Student Union is run in the best possible way.
• Make our Student Union available at everyone’s doorsteps, to help them develop better; and understand what our Union stands for (not only as a place to drink and party, but also a place to develop; academically, employability, friendship cultivation, good health awareness and sports participation, amongst others things)
• Ensure that the various student societies have the support of the Student Union and most importantly carry the local communities along with the programme of the Union.
• Uphold the strength of the academic environment, tackle its weaknesses, create opportunities and battle its threats.

Word Associations

• Support: Guide
• Welfare: Well-being
• Campaigns: Movement
• Elections: Vote Anjiie
• AGM: Annual General Meeting

Questions

1. What do you envisage the role of the Student Support Officer to be?
The role of the student support officer is to look after the students by protecting their interests and making them aware of available support they have in the union.

2. Why should students vote for you as their Student Support Officer?
I am easy to approach and talk to. No one can understand them like I would and I will ensure their opinions are heard.

3. What is the most important thing to remember when supporting students?

• What are their challenges?
• What are the available alternative to the challenges?
• What is the best solution in the circumstance?

4. What do you think are the most important issues that you would have to fight for as the student support officer?
General student welfare like housing, transportation and security.

5. As the student support officer it’s your responsibility to run the union campaigns. What would be your top three campaigns and why?

• To raise the attendance of programs like VIP and RAG
• To encourage students to join different sports societies
• Health awareness (STD’s, healthy eating and fitness) (Because a healthy and happy student is better equipped to achieve his or her goals)

6. Part of your role is to organise Union Council. How do you intend to improve and enhance this so that more students attend?

• More publicity
• Get sponsorships from shops and give out free vouchers

7. What would be your main agenda item at the Union AGM?
Better organisation to allow time for student issues to be heard and dealt with appropriately

8. A major part of your portfolio is Raising and Giving (RAG). What ideas do you have for building upon the RAG foundations?
Create more awareness and attractiveness to draw more students from all backgrounds to participate.

9. As a sabbatical Officer, networking is essential and important; what is your best networking line?
This is your Union; I am your Support officer how can I best serve you?