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Student Affairs host future UFS leaders during leadership conference
2018/2019 student leaders gather in the EBW Auditorium for the annual Leadership Conference

Newly elected 2018/2019 Kovsie student leaders, comprising the Student Representative Council (SRC), Residence Councils (RC), and Residence Assistants (RA), gathered in the EBW Auditorium for training during the annual Student Leadership Conference. This year’s conference was also privileged to be joined by the South Campus SRC members.

The Director: Student Affairs, Dr WP Wahl, kicked off the programme with a session highlighting the importance of creating value-driven communities. Pulane Malefane, Assistant Director: Residence Life, spoke about student leaders fulfilling their roles and responsibilities as RC and RA representatives.

The Dean of Student Affairs, Pura Mgolombane, delivered a presentation based on The Role of Student Leadership as Aligned to the Student Affairs Strategic Plan, Pedagogies and Policies. Students also enjoyed an inspirational talk about Lessons in Leadership: What Leadership Taught Me presented by UFS Council member, David Abbey. 

 
The conference concluded with a delightful dinner and networking session for Kovsie’s future leaders.

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Service learning research day
2008-11-21

 
The Centre for Higher Education Studies and Development (CHESD), recently presented a Service Learning Research Day. Some of the presentations delivered included “Preparing students for life: The role of service learning and critical reflection” and “Can science and service learning marry?”, presented by the couple Mr Dawie and Ms Deidré van Jaarsveldt. At the research day were, from the left: Dr Luzelle Naudé, Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, Dr Teresa Carmichael, University of the Witwatersrand, and Prof. Mabel Erasmus, Head of the Division Service Learning at CHESD and co-ordinator of the research day. Photo: Leonie Bolleurs

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