Who we are

StOr is an interest organization that you automatically become a member of when you pay your semester fee. We are here to take care of student democracy at the University of Stavanger. We also work as the class representatives for the students here.

The Student Board The Student Board currently contains the following members:

President: Daniel Haug Nystad

Vice President: Morten Rønne

Responsible for professions: Kim Sørensen

Responsible for students-benefits: Fredrik Sele

Responsible for International affaires: Wieneke Oomen

For contact information, check out:

http://www.stavangerstudent.no/node/33

The Student Parliament

The Student Parliament is the highest body in the student government. It is here the most important decisions are made. Their job is to handle and make decisions about issues which concern the main policies for StOr’s activity. The jobs of most significance will be to decide the Program of Principles, the work plan (the issues StOr is currently working with) and changes in the governing documents for StOr.

The Student Parliament consists of 15 student representatives chosen from the faculties. Each faculty will have minimum one representative, and each student faculty board will be represented in the Student Parliament with a member. The remaining nine places are divided according to the student enrollment of the faculties. All of these representatives have speaking-, suggestion-making-, and voting rights. In addition, the members on the Student Board and student representatives in various organizations can attend, maintaining speaking- and suggestion-making/proposal rights.

All the Student Parliament meetings are open, thus ALL students are welcome. (However, the Student Parliament can choose to hold a closed meeting due to sensitive issues/information.) 

The Organisational Consultant

The Organisations Consultant works for StOr, but is hiered at the university.

The Organisational Consultant has responsibility for the administrative operations, but the main assignment is to advise the studentboard, the facultyboards and the buddy programe (Fadder) with strategic, organisational and economical issues. The Organisations consultant is very important for StOr and it’s work due to that person’s constant connection to StOr’s organisation. Student Board members come and go, while the consultant remains. Thus, in addition to the Student Board, that person has a lot of knowledge which is very important.

The Organisational Consultant is available in the office full-time and her name is Silje Finnskog Jensen.

Fadder

Fadder is the mentor program for new students at University og Stavanger. The mentor program is important for a good start to student life and your studies. This is a program for all new students and previous students at UiS to provide an opportunity to get to know each other and become familiar with campus. The first week you will see them all over, mentors in the same coloured t-shirts, who guide you through an exciting, challenging and maybe a little chaotic week.

As a new student, the mentor program will offer you a tour of campus in addition to many other fun activities. Set aside the evenings these weeks – there is a lot happening at the university! The mentors are students, who know most everything about the city and the university. They have been through the semester opening themselves and know what is expected. The mentors do what they can to help you.

The Faculty Boards

StOr is represented at each fakulty by a Faculty Board, which is the highest student body at the faculty level, with the exception of possible “all faculty meetings”. The Faculty Board will have its own order of business.

The faculty boards shall consist of 7 students. At UiS there are 3 facultys: SV, TN and HUM.

The Faculty Board works mainly with issues at the faculty level. Their main job is to prepare a budget for the coming year which must be delivered to the Student Board by November 1. In addition the accounts for the faculty boards must be done every half-year. Spring semester by July 1, and autumn semester by February 1. The accounts are to be delivered in their entirety to the Student Board by these dates.

The Faculty Board is to assist the Student Board in finding representatives for StOr’s committee, and other governing bodies at UiS where the students are represented.

The Control Comittee

The Control Committee in StOr consists of three people, and will monitor the Student Parliament, the Student Board, the Faculty Boards and the Election Committee in accordance to StOr’s regulations. The Control Committee consists of three members. The members can not be members of any other of StOr’s formal governing bodies. The committee constitutes itself and reports to the Parliament, and goes through StOr’s accounts together with the Organisational Consultant.

The Election Comittee

The Election Committee in cooperation with StOr’s consultant, president and information manager, has responsibility to inform new students about student work at the beginning of the semester. The Election Committee has the responsibility to organize and carry out the election of student representatives in various governing bodies and approve the lists of candidates and see to it that the election polls are manned in accordance to the rules in § 7 of StOr’s election regulations.

The Student Velfare Organisation

The Student Velfare Organisation is an goal-driven and non-politically affiliated administrative body for all students attending schools associated with Studentsamskipnaden i Stavanger (SiS). The purpose is to work for the students’ well-being, democratic, economic, cultural and social needs and rights. 

The Student Velfare Organisation will hold at least one meeting during a half year term, and the meetings are open. Teh Student Velfare Organisations consists of 21 student representatives from 8 affiliated schools in the Stavanger region:

Universitetet i Stavanger

BI

Kunstskolen i Rogaland

Misjonshøgskolen

Rogaland Markedshøgskole

Den sosialpedagogiske Høgskole

Rogaland Høgskole

Diakonhjemmet

Folkeuniversitetet i Rogaland

The commitee in the Student Velfare Organisation sends written summons and agenda for the meeting ten days before the meeting date. Issues to be addressed in the organisation should be presented three weeks before the meeting. The Student Velfare Organisation can discuss, and make decisions about welfare-related issues, in addition to other relevant issues which concern one ore more of the schools affiliated with SiS. 

The organisation will also state opinions concerning SiS’s vision, values and budget. They also chooses the student representatives for the SiS board.