Training University Student Leaders To Boost Engagement
Student Leaders Are Facing A Challenge:
The Problem
After speaking to hundreds of student leaders (present and former) from universities across Australia, we identified that most students were not receiving training and were suffering from the stress of leading communities of hundreds to thousands of students.
This was further supported by research showing that one of the top-7 reasons students drop out of university - which more than 50,000 students do annually, and costs the students themselves an average of $12,000 each - is, “[not] develop(ing) a social network at university.“
(Wilson and Lizzio, 2008)
The Solution
With over 4000 student club, societies, residences, mentoring and leadership programs across Australia, student leaders engage hundreds of thousands of university students every year.
Student leaders keep students engaged and enrolled at university, at enormous financial return to universities, and measurable personal and professional return to students and leaders themselves.
Research from Long, Ferrier and Heagney (2006) identifies 6-strategies to improve retention at Australian universities where student dropout is a $1.2b+ problem annually. One of the six strategies is:
“Assurance that no students feel isolated or lonely by providing a responsive social environment… the support of campus-based clubs and societies.”
How does Campus Consultancy help?
We support student leaders by providing the highest level of professional development to prepare and empower them for their leadership role, as well as providing extensive support networks for peers to collaborate cross-faculty and cross-university around Australia.
This allows students leaders to be as effective as possible at engaging students, building communities and leading positive social change.
We do this in several ways outlined below.
#1 Leadership Workshops
Throughout our challenging Leadership Workshops and Programs, a selection of essential professional development workshops are delivered for teams to address the most common problems that student leaders face, providing them with strategies to immediately serve their community/stakeholders more effectively while developing their team and unleashing the potential of the entire community.
Further details are available in this PDF.
#2 Mentoring
Having spoken with student leaders who have experience leading over 130,000 combined students it is clear that the need for training is there. In all of our programs, we facilitate peer-to-peer relationship building and mentoring. This further engages the student leaders and develops their mentoring skill for the benefit of al students.
#3 Partnerships
We are committed to providing the most useful resources, connections and opportunities to student leaders who engage with our network. View our beloved partners here. We are always eager to work with new and exciting partners who can help us connect and develop leaders across Australia!