KUCSC undergoing "virtual turnover" of duties

COVID-19 has affected many facets of King’s campus, including the turnover of duties from one administration of the King’s University College Students’ Council (KUCSC) to another.

 

However, incoming KUCSC President Ben Kitching says, “we are here still here to support the students and provide an amazing student experience at King’s.”

 

Usually, incoming executives will spend the month of April shadowing their outgoing counterparts, sitting in on meetings and seeing the day-to-day operations of the positions.

 

Instead, with King’s becoming a largely virtual campus during the pandemic, KUCSC executives will experience a “virtual turnover” of their duties. Kitching says the executives are utilizing turnover manuals to gain a better understanding of their new duties. Meanwhile, Kitching is sitting in on Zoom meetings with outgoing KUCSC President Hailley White.

 

KUCSC continues to meet regularly via Zoom to advocate on behalf of the student body while the events portfolio continues to work hard to plan events for the upcoming academic year, no matter what the year ahead looks like regarding in-person gatherings. In years past, executives would use this time to look towards planning how to implement the platforms they ran on. “But, with so much uncertainty regarding what the student experience will look like come September, executives are having to plan the year on multiple streams depending on how ‘normal’ things go back to in September,” says Kitching.

 

Kitching explains that, given the current situation, the ability to work together as a team is more important than ever. “Both the incoming and outgoing executives have been there to support each other and I'm confident that we will all get through this together and come out of this situation closer than before,” he says.

 

For more information on King’s University College Students’ Council, please visit https://www.kucsc.ca/.