Student Representative Council

Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) Student Representative Council (SRC)

President

General Job Description

As President, you are responsible for the creative direction of the council, making sure that you have a vision and pre-set goals that you hope to achieve with your council as a team, for your fellow peers, seniors and juniors here at IMU Bukit Jalil campus. You are called to be a servant first, and a leader second, working for your fellow man and improving your fellow students’ university experience to the best of your ability. Your ultimate role shall not be limited to but include a salient agenda and that is to promote inter-school (Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy and Health Sciences) unity and integration via student- and university-driven activities.

1. Creative Direction

SRC 10/11 has started to run in quarters, i.e. four quarters of approximately four months in an SRC term. It will be your responsibility to decide what your council should and should not do, in the best interests of all the students.

2. SRC and Batch Representatives Meetings

This series of meetings is essential to gain feedback from the batches across all courses in IMU, as well as to disseminate essential information. All matters arising can be passed on to the appropriate individuals within council, academic and/or administrative staffs. Prudent delegation is crucial.

3. Canteen Committee meetings

You are to work closely with the SRC Public Relations Liaison (PR) on this. At any one time the PR should lead this agenda, your role as the President will be to ease any complication faced by him/her. This series of meetings is useful to bring up concerns revolving around the Foods and Beverages (F&B) providers in IMU. Concerns could include affordability and quality of F&B and customer service.

4. Student Academic and Welfare Meetings

The Academic Meeting, held twice a year, was chaired by Professor Peter Pook, Vice-President of IMU up till 2013 and may be chaired by Professor Abdul Aziz Baba, Vice-President of IMU, in the near future. You are to lead your team of SRC, more precisely the five vice-presidents in SRC, to attend to all academic concerns relayed from students to their batch reps of all courses. This is when job scope No.2 comes into play. You are also responsible in orchestrating your vice- presidents in attending to the relevant concerns turned agendas, upon prudent delegation. It is crucial to have all Academic agendas passed between the SRC vice-presidents and the Deaneries of all four schools, before passing on to the Academic Meeting.

The Welfare Meeting held twice a year, will be chaired by our Provost of IMU, Dr. Mei Ling Young. The mechanism of attending to students’ welfare concerns following delegation and the passing of agendas through Heads of various Administrative Departments shall be applied here, similarly as how you would, with the Academic Meeting. You are to raise major/campus-wide welfare concerns pertaining to social and recreational activities passed on to you by students.

How much of a better academic and welfare experience you’ve advocated for your fellow students, come under judgment in these meetings. Hence, lead and delegate to the best of your ability.

5. Community Outreach programs

As President, you are obliged to lead by example in the area of community outreach to the people in need. You are to spearhead, promote and facilitate all fundraisers be they in and out of IMU that aim at benefitting the charity beneficiaries. There are a number of charity-driven events/activities that you are expected to partake, facilitate and lead if need be, a couple of them are:

1. IMU Adopted Village (Kampung Angkat- Kampung Serendah) 2. IMU Chariofare

Grasp this opportunity to showcase what it takes to be the servant leader together with your fellow students in translating your efforts into blessings for the community in need. Lead and inspire others.

6. Academic Council (AC) Meeting

The annual Academic Council Meeting involves all the Deans, Senate Members and Professors from School of Medicine and Dentistry of IMU as well as our Partner Medical and Dental Universities (PMS and PDS), to make recommendations on admissions, curriculum, assessment and faculty appointments and development. As President, your attendance at the AC meeting is important, in representing the Medical and Dental student community alongside your Vice- Presidents of Medicine and Dentistry. Certain sessions of the AC Meeting are open to the entire student population in the pathway towards PMS and PDS, your role will then be to involve them.

7. Final thoughts

As President, you must ensure that your team works competently and effectively, and that you continue to strive for a spirit of servant hood in all that you do. Work hard for the students, think of them even when things don’t go your way. You will also be called to settle conflicts, so keeping a cool head is essential. It is hoped that the eventual President will improve where the previous one left off!