Feedback from Mates@UQ

Hi mems! In line with our tentative activities, I sent an email to Mates@UQ to seek for a collaboration in making their services accommodating better our needs of networking with other UQ students and enrich our student life. This meeting if happened would aim at discussing the way Mates@UQ could better approach and become more popular to postgraduate students and also propose sort of Buddy Seeking Form that would help students to seek for their accompany mates in study, social activities or sport activities. Unfortunately, they are under transition period and that means we have to wait until next semester. I pasted against here our correspondence for your reference.  Meanwhile if you have any other suggestion for our collaboration with other services and student organizations just post your comments or send me an email. Tks mates! Mates At Uq [mates@uq.edu.au] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 4:14 PM To: Miss Thi Lan Phuong Thai Cc: Katrina Wood [k.wood@uq.edu.au] Attachments:

Hello Phuong, I visited your web page and hope your project is planning out the way you hoped it would, it is very exciting to see you have the same interest in important topics such as student engagement. At present Mates@UQ is going through a stage of transition and would like you to approach us again at the beginning of next semester at the following email address: mates@uq.edu.au I would also like to point a minor (yet important error) the correct name of our program is Mates@UQ  Wishing you all the best Marjorie Marjorie Castro Engagement Officer The University of Queensland Phone: 61 7 3346 9721 Fax: 61 7 3365 7559 Email: m.castro@uq.edu.au CRICOS Provider Number 00025B Unless stated otherwise, this e-mail represents only the views of the Sender and not the views of The University of Queensland -----Original Message----- From: Miss Thi Lan Phuong Thai [mailto:phuong.thai@uqconnect.edu.au] Sent: Friday, 21 May 2010 5:11 PM To: Marjorie Castro Subject: Making an appointment Dear Marjorie, May I introduce my name is Phuong, a UQ posgraduates from social science school and am currently conducting a project aiming at improving interconnections among UQ postgraduates, dedicated to a course namely Community Planning, Engagement and Governance (you can find more information about the project at the web address http://uqinterconnections.blogspot.com/p/about-project_17.html). Building interconnections among UQ students will create opportunities to learn about other cultures and to work with different people and is also a way to promote culture diversity.  Acknowledging that UQmates are providing great opportunities for socializing and experience a joyful side of a student life and there are needs of networking and supporting each other, however, still there not as many students know where to seek supports and how to network with other students. As we seek the same interest in improving interactions for UQ students, I hope you can spend some time next week with me to discuss further and see how you think of my suggestions for engaging students to your services. I am looking forwards to your responses Best regards, Phuong