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Student Party SAM establishes an encouraging student climate in which all students can achieve their ambitions.
Quality of Education
Our mission states that all students should get the chance to grow and nourish their talents. This can be achieved through excellent education at Tilburg University. Therefore, SAM focuses on the following topics: Excellent teachers, the quality of your degree, labour market orientation, digitization, soft skills, and the innovation of education.
Personal Development & Wellbeing
SAM believes that extracurricular activities such as sports, study and student associations, honours programs and an active student life contribute significantly to personal development. SAM ensures that Tilburg University values these activities properly and stimulates students to develop themselves in their own way. To fulfil your potential as a student it is necessary that there is a foundation of feeling included, feeling safe and feeling mentally healthy.
Facilities & Housing
SAM aims for excellent student facilities. This forms the foundation for students to fulfill their ambitions. SAM focuses on four types of facilities: Study Facilities, Sports Facilities, Student Housing and Facilities for Student Well-Being.
Quality of Education
We strive to improve the quality of education of Tilburg university. We believe that this can be done by working towards:
- excellent teachers
- improved quality of diploma’s
- improvement of the digital study environment
- offering more soft-skill courses
- stimulating innovation of education
- Possibilities for internships with credits
During the last couple of years, we have already achieved a lot in this pillar. For example, student party SAM paved the way for web lectures and handing in assignments digitally via Canvas or mail instead of a hard-copy. We also achieved lecture free weeks prior to exam periods at some faculties. In addition to lobbying in the university council,SAM tries to realize better quality of education with a creative approach as well. We hold the “Teacher of the year” election annually. This event is an informal way of celebrating education and showing our appreciation for good teachers.
Facilities & Housing
Student party SAM provides the university with ideas of new student facilities. We believe that facilities, such as work space, sport facilities and facilities for student well-being are the backbone for enabling students to fulfill their ambitions. During the last couple of years, we have actively monitored the growth plan of the university.
We lobby for well-thought classes. This means that there should be a good teacher/student ratio and that all teachers should be aware of the increasing class size. In addition, we also take care of logistical problems, such as the amount of work space and enough bike parking places. Often, international students have trouble finding housing or integrating properly into the systems of our university. We try to improve this as well in collaboration with projects such as SHT.
All-in-all, we believe we can guide the university with achieving sustainable growth. Student party SAM wants to achieve this sustainable growth trough:
- More space to study
- A digital student card
- More affordable and good quality housing for students
Personal development & Wellbeing
As SAM we prioritise making Tilburg university a nice and safe environment to study for all students, where everybody can evolve to the best version of themselves. We want to provide all students with the possibility to develop themselves, also outside of their study curriculum. We strive for flexibility in the education program, so it is possible to make room for all sports, associations, committees, jobs, internships, languages and exchange programmes which are important for you as a student. Next to that we offer the possibility to join our own committees, which are also a nice addition to your CV or you can even sign up for a board year at our association! We also participate in all wellbeing and social safety workgroups at our university to make sure that the university is and stays a great study environment where every student feels included. We also make sure that all help a student possibly needs during their study period is offered at the university. We believe that our university has to be a place where every student can become the best version of themselves and we want to contribute to that as much as possible!
Student party SAM would like to achieve the following things regarding to extracurricular activities and Student Wellbeing:
- More & better provision of soft-skill courses
- Being rewarded for doing an internship with ECTS
- Ability to pay-per-course during a board year
- expanding the offer of peer-to-peer groups
- clear overview of all Wellbeing possibilities the university offers
Values
Perform with Passion
- We enjoy helping all students of Tilburg University
- We put maximum effort and energy into representing all students of Tilburg University
- We are passionate about education and the development of Tilburg University and all its
- students
Demonstrate Reliability
- We listen sincerely to all students and take direct action to show that we live up to our promises
- We carefully manage the relationships we develop, we’re in it for the long term!
- We believe consistent policy is key to building trust
Care for all
- We are always open and approachable for all students
- We actively connect with all students to recognize their needs
- We actively involve all students in our ideas, initiatives, and decisions
Think Ambitiously
- We continuously improve Tilburg University by using our critical view
- We provide creative and innovative solutions to issues that occur at Tilburg University
- We proactively search for new challenges and opportunities