UPDATE FROM THE STUDY BOARD

Dear IBP Students,

The past year in the Study Board has been quite a journey. We have discussed formalities, curriculum, and semester structure changes in the process of adapting to the changes in the IBP program. It is a long process, and while we have tried to incorporate as many of your suggestions as possible, many things are decided by higher-ups. In the past year, we have:

• Elected four Course Representatives for Political Science to ensure direct and better feedback

• Held an event with the IBP Union to raise awareness of all the library’s online resources, courses and tutorials

• Managed to move first-semester exams to not overlap with each other

• Changed the Course Representative electionprocess to ensure the best collaboration between students and teaching staff

• Been working towards coherent semester structures do not have quarters and semesters courses at the same time

• Worked towards incorporating the Nordic Nine goals in the course material

After the election in November, a new Study Board was elected. We welcome three new members to the board: Amalie Holst, Astrid Schou, and Luna Solhave! With that, many thanks are due to Alex Smith, Matilde Galioto Lecker, and Victor Wersinger for their hard work over the past year!

What is the IBP Study Board?

The best way to think about the study board is to think about it as a forum or a meeting place for ideas. The study board consists of 5 professors teaching on IBP, 5 student representatives and 2 IBP staff members.

What do we do?

The study board meetings happen roughly every month and usually behind closed doors. Sometimes, when debating about a specific issue, we also invite people to provide us with insights. Officially, our most important task is ensuring the courses’ academic quality. We do so through, for example, establishing the qualityboards, which means finding course representatives for each course, talking to them, reading the course evaluations and discussing with teachers whether the exam format should be changed. Additionally, we deal with personal cases of exemptions, credit pre-approvals for exchange, internship approvals and appeals.

Who exactly are we?

We are the five students who were elected as student representatives by you in Autumn 2022. We will sit on the study board for a year, from January 2023 to December 2023, until the next IBP Study Board is elected.

Why should you care?

We want you to understand that we, as the student representatives are YOUR VOICE for structural change within the IBP program. If you are concerned about something, unhappy with a course, or have criticism or suggestions, please reach out (CBS email or in person). At the beginning of each meeting, the board’s vice-chair has a specific timeslot allocated to updates from the students, in which any issues can be brought up.

We sincerely hope this has helped us understand our work better!

On behalf of the study board, Sofie Andersen, current vice-chair of the IBP Study Board