Testimonial #24

I am very upset to hear that university management's vision of university is one where student support is considered an optional part of our education, one occupying a minor step beneath the academic development of students.
I believe categorizing the distinction between academic and personal, pshycological support represents quite a contradiction in a context such as this and any university, where we are encouraged to grow as persons, and not only as brains. More importantly, not matter how this relation is institutionalised, no matter how they portray us students, we are still gonna be one entity, made of intellectual passions and emotional drives, which could dangerously become conflictual if one of the two is denied attention.

Now, at the management level we are witnessing a very obviously selective support of specific sectors of the university, according to priorities that I dont understand how can be in line with "bettering the student experience". This decisions makes it ever more clear that the quality of such experience is being sacrificed to the quantity of students' finances being brought to university.

I am keen on expressing my deep concern with the decision to drastically cut the number of student advisors team. Based on my experience of intermission, I must and want to acknowledge how student advisors have played a crucial role in bridging my personal issues and my academic life, in a way that very few other support areas of university provide the space for.