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Meinck'e, confinued
some small item that I
missed, but frankly, I cannot think of any concerns that I have expressed in public that ,I have not first made known to some government person at one time or another.
For example, each year when the Association of Atlantic Universities Report on Financing offl‘Mariti'n'ie Universities becomes" avail- able, I send copies with covering letters to each member of the Legislature. In these notes I have offered to discuss the material and answer any questions. '
This year I had an excellent question from the Honourable Gordon Lank and sent him a great deal of additional in- formation with copies to the Premier, the Minister of Education and others who might be interested.
There is no doubt that we had _a serious problem com— municating ‘ about the great success‘ of our Office, of Research and Development and the important roletfit had
,in this University‘JT‘rrwo reports a year have sent to what we thought was‘the proper office. i H
In the last year of the three- year agreement, most or the
Deputy Ministers were invited
out for a briefing and given '
reams of material on the
' PRESIDENT
activities of the Office, ye we
heard, once again by the-
grapevine, that when the Cabinet met to consider the continuation of funding, no one apparently knew what the office was doing.
That, of course, was just rumour, because we had 'no official communication ex— cept that .we had to do 'some major last minute lobbying to keep half of the office for 1984-85.
This year I have sent a letter and a copy of the full Report of the activities in the office directly to the Minister I think is responsible, and copies to all who might be interested. It will be most
interesting to see what happens. However, formal com—
munication is often not the most effective communica- tion. That is why I have invited the full Cabinet or groups of ministers out to
UPEI on a number of occasions. We toured the campus, especially the
decrepit athletic facilitiesand Main Building, and discussed our concerns.
We also started, a few
‘vyear's/ ago, the practice of
inviting individual cabinet ministers to small, informal lunches and dinners to dis-
“cuss areas of mutual concern.
These encounters were ‘kept deliberately small and informal. The minister brought along his or her key
people we‘usually had two or three people who
‘ either knew the minister well
or were active in the areas of interest of the minister.
I think you and your readers will agree that much has been done to try to communicate with the Pro- vincial Government.
in mind that the University is not a government depart- ment and it must keep a cer- tain distance so that it can maintain a proper degree of
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and the public can all play very important roles in im- proving such communication, it is essential that the Govern- ment receives clear, consist-
It was my impression that If you are reporting the
these meetings were most Premier’s view correctly, successful and it was unfor- more effective methods of tunate that we were not able communication must be to meet with all the individual found.
cabinet ministers. However, it must be kept
independence and autonomy em and where!“ messages-
even though a large portion of its funding comes from government.
Although students, faculty, staff, members of the Board
Yours sincerely,
Peter P. M.'Meincke President
TheSU executive jobs defined
Article 8 — POWERS AND DUTIES OF THE EXECUTIVE A) The President shall:
I) Be the chief executive and official spokesperson of the UPEISU.
2) Be responsible for the integration and direction of all activites of the UPEISU.
3) Call all meetings of the UPEISU, Council, Executive
' and proposed dates for all General Meetings.
4) Be bound to call a Council meeting within forty-eight (48) hours of receiving a petition signed, by five (5) per cent of the student body or two-thirds (2/3) majority in Cotmcil requesting such a meeting.
5) With the exception of Emergency Meeting, publish the agenda at least forty-eight (48) hours before a meeting and include any material pertinent to articles in the agenda.
7) Present a report of specific aims, goals and objectives as put forth by the Executive, to the first Council Meeting.
9) Be a member of the UPEI Senate.
B) The Vice-President Academic shall:
1) Be responsible for the co-ordination of all research activities undertaken by the UPEISU on bhealf of its students.
2) Assume the duties of the President according to the terms of this Article in such events as the resignation, absence, or impeachment of the President.
3) Be a member of the UPEI Senate.
4) Be responsible for the academic issues of all sub-
organizations. 5) Be repsonsible for the yearbook. 6) Be responsible for the newspaper.
C) The Vice-President Operations shall:
I) Be responsible for the campus radio.
'2) Be responsible for external and internal advertising.
3) Be'responsible for the Social Committee, Orientation, Fall Fest, and Winter Carnival.
4) Co-ordinate the staff and operations in the UPEISU Building.
5) Be responsible for the operational issues of all sub» organizations. '
D) The Treasurer shall:
1) Be a member of the Board of Governors.
2) Be responsible for the financial administration 0' all UPEISU funds.
3) Submit a financial statement of UPEISU funds am; and submit reports at. the last Council Meeting 0 the end of the first and second semesters.
4) Submit the results of the yearly audit at the firs Council Meeting in the fall.
5)’ Each month, submit an estimate of revenue anc‘ expenditures from operations for the proceedin; month to Council.
6) Present a yearly budget by the end of October.
7) Ensure that a clear and accurate account of, all financial transactions of the UPEISU be kept.
8) Permit students to have access to the financial records of the UPEISU within twenty-four (24) hours of
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