Class representative Election
Elect representatives for your class
Each year your Student Council ensures that one representative and deputy is elected for all classes in all study programs, who will be the class representative in your local Student Council (SR) and for dialogue directly with teaching and academic staff members at NLA. Representatives are invited to your local Student Council (constituent meeting) and have voting rights during the academic year for which they are elected.
How do I become a class representative?
Student council elections for the coming semester take place in the spring semester, with a constituent meeting before May, for all study programs and classes at all NLA campuses (except for newly enrolled students that will arrive in August). You can promote yourself or other piers as a candidates for class representatives, either when your class is holding an election or by digital elections that will be held accordning to your local SR policy.
Shortly after semester start, in August/September, Supplementary elections are held in each class for the new 1st year students who arrive in August, in addition to classes that are still without an elect class representative student council. They are subsequently added as new members to the local student council during September.
What does it mean to be a Class Representative?
As a class representative you assume responsibility for contributing actively to looking after and promoting the students' interests and needs at your place of study, as well as having the opportunity to influence and participate in various positions and the opportunities the position provides:
- Enroll to ORG101 (5 credits)
- Contact person towards your lecturers
- Voting member of the Student Council
- Participate in NLA and student committees and boards
- Political training and leadership experience
- Contribute to increased student welfare and influence students' everyday life
- Build networks and new relationships
- Improve the CV
How to hold elections
Physical Class representative for all class/ studyprogrammes
(For Student Council)
- When you are conducting the (physical) election for your class representative, you will have to coordinate this with the study programme managers. If you are unsure who is responsible for your study programme, contact the organizational adviser.
- All classes in all study programmes must elect one class representative and one vara (substitute), who are elected openly and efficiently in each class.
- Clarify with the lecturer when elections will be held in the class (recommended 10 minutes at the beginning of the lecture).
- Briefly inform about what it means to be a class representative (description above), and the lecturer leaves the room during the actual election.
- Two persons take responsibility for the election and counting of votes.
- Register the candidates (can also be suggested by others).
- Write down the candidates for election, and choose a class representative and vara (show of hands or votes on a piece of paper).
- Announce the elected class representative and vara to the class, and share their contact informations.
- Inform the class representative and the vara that they will receive summons to the Student Council and other relevant information from the student council leader.
- The two persons who took responsibility for the election then send the name and contact information of the newly elected class representative and vara to the organizational adviser who follows up administratively.