A proposed student democracy scheme for the UWC Adriatic.

1. STUDENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
2013/2014
VALEV LAUBE
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UWC Adriatic

2. UWC ADRIATIC STUDENT COUNCIL
• Protect UWC Adriatic (UWC Ad) students’ rights
• Present and promote UWC Ad student initiations, ideas and personal successes
• Connect and develop collaboration between different student groups
• Create communication channel between students and staff
• Mentor students with their initiations and ideas
• Preserve and follow college’s main principles
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3. STRUCTUREOFCOLLABORATION
UWC Student Councils
Union
UWC Adriatic Student
council
Representatives
Groups representing
different interests
Music School, UWC
Music Network
Media interaction
The Adriatic Times,
Philosophy magazine,
Economy magazine
College's student
groups
Environmental Action
Group
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4. WHAT THE COUNCIL CONSISTS OF
College’s
community
Student
community
Student
initiations/groups
Student
representatives

5. CURRENT SITUATION
Problems
• Student community have not been
able to present their ideas in a
formal way
• Different initiations and groups are
not working together
• Individual ideas lack of support
• Uncontrolled/not working
collaboration with other colleges
Improvements
• Conclusive document will be created during the student meetings –
shown on the screen to everyone, after published
• Council will have at least one representative from each officially working
initiation in the college
• Council will collect the ideas and will organize democratic voting
• Archive information about students who are responsible of any
collaboration with other colleges
• Student Council will consider joining and supporting UWC Atlantic’s idea
to create UWC Student Councils Union
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6. WAYS OF WORKING
STUDENT
COUNCIL
Student
community
Initiation group
representatives
Media
representatives
International
relations
representatives
School’s staff
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• Continuing meeting schedule
• College meetings – public
formulated documents prepared
during the council’s general
meeting, conclusive documents
public to everyone
• Meetings with staff
• Monthly public council’s general
meetings with student community
(recommended for all the students) –
students representatives, media
representatives, international relations
representatives and initiation’s
representatives

7. IDEAS TO START WITH
• Create a student councils subpage on school’s website
• Public documentations and statements created by student council
• Students reflections about the college
• Start creating a structured map about student initiative projects and groups
• Reflect doings through the reports published in The Adriatic Times
• Join and support idea of creating UWC Student Council’s Union
• Update/refresh school’s website
• United World College – where the aspect of “world” became just “western”
• Emphasizing college’s talks to cover more aspects than only western approach
• Create a student council’s room/office for students to reflect their ideas, leave messages
• Developing and realizing the previously introduced structure
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