Well hello there, sweet thing!
I’m Rosa, one of the four advocacy wizards in the board of AYY and a fourth-year architecture student. My sectors are international affairs, new students and development cooperation, a groovy combination of educational policies, juicy meetings and organizational activities. After three years in the board of my dear guild and two years as a volunteer at AYY’s international sector I made the best decision of my life and applied for the board – and, well, here I am, still quite startled that I get to be surrounded by this bright community every day.
This year my goal is to encourage and support associations in their internationalization objectives, develop Aalto’s student mobility and promote the acknowledgement of tutoring as an important part of the reception, orientation and engagement of new students both to the academic and student community. Golden projects, right? In addition to these my mind will be dancing with questions concerning the new tuition fee system: as you might already know, Aalto University is preparing the tuition fee system for non EU-ETA students and the system will start operating in 2017.
This of course means big changes in our university: what does this mean to the programs, services and teaching? What about internationalization and the number of students? In this new situation one of my projects is to update AYY’s policy paper on tuition fees. The aim is to have a broad opinion on how the system should work and what has to be done when the university starts charging our students. If you’re interested in influencing this, I’d love to have you at the tuition fee workshop on the 30th of March, 17.30 at the rooftop sauna of Vaasankatu 10. Don’t hesitate to contact me whether it is about tuition fees or anything else, I am here for your questions and comments!
Lots of love,
Rosa
P.S. Check out the background material on tuition fee policy paper and send your comments to international@ayy.fi .