Who's Involved in CÉIM?
CÉIM is a partnership between 1st year students, 2nd and 3rd year student leaders, discipline-specific academic and administrative staff and the Students’ Union. This is what the various people involved in CÉIM do:
1st Year Students
- Attend and fully participate in a peer learning session each week
- Collaborate and share ideas with others in the group
- Engage with their Cairde group
- Take responsibility for their own learning
- Be open to new ways of doing things
Student Leaders
- Attend and participate in a 2.5 day training course
- Plan, develop and run a 50 minute CÉIM session each week with 1st year students
- Take part in weekly debriefing and training sessions with other student leaders and staff
- Encourage 1st years to attend CÉIM sessions
- Collaborate with other Student Leaders, staff and 1st year students to create a dynamic and useful learning environment targeted to the needs of 1st years
- Share learning and experiences of CÉIM with others
The Academic Lead
- Acts as the main College/School contact for CÉIM
- Provides academic support for the initiative
- Liaises between student leaders and College management, and relays information about CÉIM at course and departmental meetings
- Liaises with other academic staff as necessary
- Attends CÉIM debriefing sessions with student leaders to discuss session progress and upcoming topics
- Promotes the scheme to students and staff
College/School Administrative Team
- Assists with logistical aspects of the CÉIM scheme, such as communication, room booking, and timetabling
- Oversees data gathering and collation for evaluation purposes
The Students’ Union CÉIM Director
- Coordinates the day-to-day running of CÉIM
- Promotes the initiative in collaboration with the Academic Lead and other staff
- Organises training of student leaders
- Attends weekly debriefing meetings with student leaders and staff
- Supports student leaders with practical matters
- Visits each group a number of times to provide feedback to student leaders
- Organises evaluation of the CÉIM scheme and dissemination of the findings
The Students’ Union CÉIM Administrator
- Provides administrative and programme IT support.
- Liaises with student leaders and staff.
- Arranges logistics for events and training.
- Visits groups to provide feedback to student leaders.
- Attends weekly debriefing meetings with student leaders and staff
The Students’ Union Engagement Coordinator
- Provides programme and administrative support
- Organises materials for student leaders, weekly meetings and training
- Provides focused support to individual student leaders and groups of students
- Attends weekly debriefing meetings with student leaders and staff
- Visits groups to provide feedback to student leaders
- Manages CÉIM Social Media