Advancing Education

Join us this month for a conversation with SAITSA's Vice President Aaron Ramos. SAIT and SAITSA are going through a major milestone accompanied by a facelift with their centennial anniversary and building makeover, SAITSA is lucky to have a leader like Aaron.

Join us this month as we interview NAITSA's Kaedee Fythe. We talk about planning a post-pandemic orientation, meaningful consultation, and much more.

Join us this month as we interview SAMHC's Alysha Kuntz. We talk about her SA's Goals, experiences with transferring from Saskatchewan to Alberta, and ASEC's Goals Conference.

Join Vice President External Magdalena Beukes as we speak about The Kings University, ASEC, her goals for the year, and much more.

Join Students' Association of Bow Valley College Director of External Affairs Austin Deck and Southern Alberta Institute of Technology Students' Association President Liam Hunter as we discuss governance structures at at their SA's and the local political landscape in the Alberta student context. Find out what ASEC has done to be the voice of Post-Secondary Students in Alberta. Connect with ASEC further at albertastudents.ca

Join Red Deer College Students' Association VP Academic Shannon Humphrey and Lethbridge College Students' Association President Ednna Stobschinski as we discuss equity, diversity, and inclusion in the Alberta student context. Find out what ASEC has done to embrace diversity as a core value. Connect with ASEC further at albertastudents.ca

Long time student leaders Brittany and Chloe talk about their advice for students on the way out of their elected positions.

Ryan Morstad and Liam Hunter from the SAIT Students' Association podcast "The Asterisk" join us here at Advancing Education for talk about the new SAITSA governance model and some trivia!

Michael Frankiw joins the show to talk about his pathway from agriculture student, to student leader, to life after college. Bonus discussion includes our take on "Yellowstone" an agri-drama starring Kevin Costner, and on how sad we are that COVID-19 kept us from hosting a conference in Olds, Alberta last year. Good times would surely been had!

Join Chris Chelmick, Cherie Sawaryn, Amie Elponoria and myself (your host Emmanauel) as we talk about how ASEC got started where we are now!We also talk about how cheap tuition used to be, the dramatic increase in responsibility expected of student leaders now, and what it was like attending post-secondary before services like health and dental coverage and the U-PASS were commonplace.

ASEC Executive Director Jonathan Bilodeau, NAITSA Advocacy Director Jason Roth, and your host (me) discuss the fallout of the Alberta 2021 budget announcement and our predictions (we were wrong)

Listen to this episode for our predictions on what Alberta Budget 2021 has in store for Alberta post-secondary.

Join us for a group discussion on how Open Educational Resources (or OERs) make a HUGE difference in the lives of students from polytechs, universities, or colleges.With representatives from each of the above institutions, we have Chloe Collins- a Board member and VPEX from AUARTSA, Ryan Morstad- Board member and President of SAITSA, and last but not least, ASEC's very own Madam Chair and President of SARDC Brittany Lausen.

This ASEC NEWS episode of Advancing Education is talking about the "knockout Interest" campaign started by the British Columbia Federation of Students. The campaign now has more than 700,000 students behind it and will be featuring a week of action from February 8th to 12th, 2021. Check it out!

Alberta's students are calling for reforms to their schools' sexual violence policies.Students don't feel protected by their institutions. They feel like their complaints and disclosures aren't taken seriously, and that the institutionally-specific resolution processes don't offer results.Listen to this episode to hear more about our call to reform sexual violence policies in post-secondary across Alberta.

Getting involved in your community as a student leader really opens doors. In this interview, Advanced Education Minister Demetrios Nicolaides speaks with Advancing Education on now his time as a student leader led to his current career and more.