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RAG has a new
name and format:
ACT—
Active, Civic, Teaching.
The University of the Free State (UFS) is ready to kick off the new year with a bang. Get ready to celebrate the start of university with a cause. RAG, as you know it, has a new name and format: ACT—Active, Civic, Teaching.
You get further if you pull in the same direction, rather than various good-intentioned movements on different routes. In a collective effort, four exciting programmes will take flight, which are listed below:
- Schools project for first-year students: mentored by senior students, groups of first-year students will be assigned to, and participate in local school projects. Students will learn to solve problems and work together in small groups as they collaborate on a specific community project involving primary or secondary schools in the Mangaung region.
- Community gardens: This project will help individual student communities to begin and maintain their own vegetable gardens in order to address food insecurity within their own environment.
- Eco-vehicle project for senior students: The aim of the eco-vehicle project is to create an interdisciplinary experience. Undergraduate senior students from a Student Life College (SLC) can work together to build an eco-vehicle from waste material. The track day, along with creative pit stops, will take place on 16 February 2018, preceding the Community celebration of 17 February 2018.
- Community celebration: To foster good relationships between the UFS and the community, we aim to host an annual celebration that will be open to the broader Mangaung community. The celebrations will kick off on the morning of 17 February 2018 with a business relay and a showcase of the eco-vehicles. The festive day will conclude with an evening music concert.
Keep checking the UFS website for updates about more ACT activities during the month of February.
UFS Rector receives first copy of Christ Embassy Church publication
2009-09-29
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Prof. Jonathan Jansen, Rector and Vice-Chancellor of the University of the Free State (UFS) recently received a copy of the book Rhapsody of realities. This daily devotional book was handed to him by Gladys Mofokeng. Gladys is a second-year student in Corporate Communications at the UFS and also a member of the Christ Embassy church.
As part of the Reach out SA 2009 Campaign, this church is running an initiative aimed at nation building by reaching and touching the soul of the nation. Two million free copies of this publication will be distributed. Prof. Jansen was the first to receive a copy of Rhapsody of realities on the Main Campus of the UFS. The publication was also distributed to students at the Thakaneng Bridge and the residences on the Main Campus.
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