YOUX PRESIDENT’S REPORT

YouX president

oscarzishao.ong@adelaide. edu.au

oscarong1997 As you would have noticed, we have recently changed our name and branding!

One notable lesson that COVID have taught us is that life continuously changes, and we need to adapt ourselves to ensure we are best positioned to deal with the challenges. As a 127 years old organisation, things have changed a lot since then. Our last brand refresh was in 2012, so now it’s time for something new. We undertook the rebranding project last year to review our name and brand, ensuring that we are connected with students, improve engagement, and having an inclusive brand, and also accurately captures what we do.

After an extensive research and consultative process, we landed with the brand “YouX”. YouX is representative of partnership. As a student services provider, our main priority is the student experience, and this brand helps to transmit that message. YouX brings the you into the story, showing how we enable you to experience uni the way they want, in line with their interests and values.

One of my other major focuses has also been your safety on campus. Participating in a review of security services, my feedback was focused on anti-sexual harassment/assault effort and more accessible and diverse security team to ensure you feel comfortable approaching them. I have also been participating in the Transforming Culture program, by

helping to drive important initiatives to help build a more inclusive and safer campus and ensuring the university implements the recommendations from the KPMG report. I am also pleased to see the recently appointed Executive Director of the Integrity Unit (IU), an important step towards the implementation of the Transforming Culture program. The IU is responsible to handle misconduct complaints and raising awareness. I’ve also chaired the YouX Student Care AGM recently, and it was really heart-warming to see the impact that we’ve made to student life, as I believe the important role YouX plays in helping you to succeed in your studies. There were 13,000 concerns addressed and 8,600 one on one student contacts through YouX Student Care. As Semester 2 is in full swing, make sure you take some time out to “log off and connect” to the wonderful YouX Clubs, campus and the community around you. You can see the event series we’ve got lined up for you in the coming months here: https:// www.youx.org.au/interests/events/2022events/. Questions/suggestions about the YouX/ university? You are always welcome to email me or send me a message through social media!