Achievement: An hour for Aparajita students free of work!

Aparajita Team has formulated a report this month. The report is based on the entire achievements and challenges that the program had throughout the journey. Although there were a bunch of success stories, one of the major challenges last year was the massive absence in class. With the IRB approval, an in-depth interview was taken from the students for knowing the reasons behind this huge absence. 

Interviewing the students was very useful for the program. Because it opened a gateway to get closer to the students  by knowing their personal stories. This led to creating a very close relationship between the teachers and students. The most important achievement of the interview was to be able to know the additional expectations of the students from the program. 

Family responsibilities, extra workload, for example, overtime duty etc were the reasons why the students stopped coming to class. 

After the interview, the team was in a hard time finding ways how to make the students come back to the class. The team started thinking about what can be done but found almost no ways to resolve their family and work problems. Eventually, the group came up with an idea of applying to the AUW Governance Committee for freeing an hour for the students when they will not work but will come to Aparajita classes.

The main motive of writing the report was to present the program to the AUW Governance Committee. By the end of the report, a series of recommendations were added where the team included their appeal to free an hour for their students. 

As the next step, the Aparajita team scheduled a meeting with the acting Vice Chancellor John Schroeder with the presence of the advisor of the program. In the meeting, the Aparajita team briefed about the program to the Vice Chancellor and at last demanded for an hour free of work for their students. 

At last, the hard work of the Aparajita team was paid off. An email of approval of freeing an hour for the students was received from the AUW Governance Committee on November 1st.