First Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Dr. Alexander Spivakovsky during his in-dept…
First Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Dr. Alexander Spivakovsky during his in-depth course in the USA due to IREX UASP participation, had a meeting with the Vice President for Student Affairs of Eastern Washington University Dr. Stacey Morgan Foster.
During the in-depth course at higher educational establishments of the United States of America due to IREX University Administration Support Program participation, First Vice-Rector of Kherson State University Dr. Alexander Spivakovsky had a meeting with the Vice-President for Student affairs of Eastern Washington University Dr. Stacey Morgan Foster. The meeting was held on the 11th of October 2012. The questions for the interview had been prepared by the Head of KSU Students and PhD-Students Committee Andrii Vyshnevskyi. First of all our students were interested in the student government in American universities and whether their experience, gained in this bodies, influences further career development. Besides, our students wondered about most common free-time activities of American students.
Vice-President for Student Affairs of EWU is responsible not only for all aspects of students’ life (free time, sport, health, academic individual and group work etc.), but for the budget of these activities as well. This budget is formed only of the students’ money and is spent only for their needs. The student budget is approximately 1 million dollars and the half of it is spent for various students activities (the students may participate in them as volunteers). American students have 15 hours of weakly classroom work, the rest of time they spend working in libraries. Students have the opportunity to work at any place to consider it cozy because the whole campus territory has Internet access. Besides EWU has an access to the centralized education database of Washington State, where one can find information about students who were shifted from one university to another.
Dr. Stacey Morgan Foster told that among American students there are still a lot of problems. And the University Administration does its best to solve them. Students have no tedious time, because various events, faculty presentations, exhibitions, concerts and other cultural activities take place almost daily at EWU campus. At the end of interview Dr. Stacey Morgan Foster suggested the students of Kherson State University to get acquainted with the EWU Student Affairs Annual Report 2010/2011.
