Student Action at SFC
Petition
Petition procedure
Submit the necessary information and the details of your petition from "Petition Form (keio.jp account required)" below. Shonan Student Union will reply within one week to the email address you registered. We may ask for additional information or arrange an interview. The petition will finish when the petitioner is satisfied after communicating with us, or when moved to Injunction.
Notes on petition
In principle, the contents of the petition and subsequent exchanges will be made public, except for personal information. If you require special protection or nondisclosure, please indicate that on the form. We will use the information you provide for contact and identity verification. When the procedure is finished, we will promptly destroy unnecessary personal information after processing it into a form in which the individual cannot be identified. Petitions must be made based on your own free will. This must be pledged when you submit the form, along with the authenticity of the information you provide. If we do not hear back from you for more than a week regarding your petition, we will consider your petition resolved and finish the procedure. In addition, if it is determined that your petition is a deliberate procrastination of the procedure or a malicious obstruction of affairs, we will finish the procedure after making the series of exchanges public. Petitions are processed by case number. Please do not remove the case number from the email title. If you can't see the form, please click here.
Injunction
Injunction procedure
An injunction request, except when initiated by a subcommittee, must have been previously petitioned with the same content, and the petition must have been resolved (rejected, denied, etc.) in a manner inconsistent with the petition content. When making an injunction request, it is necessary to register the case number of the rejected petition. Please use the “Injunction Request Form" at the bottom of this page to submit the names, student IDs, email addresses of 20 SFC students who support the injunction request, along with the autonomous action you want to stop. The Shonan Student Union will publicly announce within 36 hours of receiving the injunction request through the form and send a confirmation email to all supporters. If there are deficiencies in the application, the representative of the request will be notified within the same time frame.Supporters should reply within 72 hours of receiving the email, pledging based on their own free will that they are supporting the injunction request.If all 20 individuals do not confirm their pledge within the specified time frame without any special circumstances, the Shonan Student Union may resume the autonomous action.Upon confirming all pledges, discussions will be conducted to address the issues raised in the ceased autonomous action.The exchange of information will take place via Slack or through meetings (in-person or online), with measures such as recording to ensure all records are preserved. If all 20 individuals declare that the issues have been resolved, the autonomous action will be resumed.In the case of modifications or withdrawals, all 20 individuals must express their agreement to these measures.
Precautions regarding injunctions
injunction requests, excluding personal information and extremely sensitive information that must be protected, will be fully disclosed, including their content and exchanges. This transparency is intended to confirm to the public whether the injunction itself is a legitimate request and whether the Shonan Student Union is responding sincerely in accordance with regulations. If there is no response from some or all of the injunction requesters for more than 7 days, it will be considered that they have declared the matter is resolved.
However, the injunction will continue as long as all individuals have not declared a resolution.Shonan Student Union must not engage in the giving or receiving of money or gifts, hospitality, secret meetings, or any other inappropriate means to urge an improper resolution with the purpose of lifting the injunction.
The following matters cannot be requested through an injunction:
1. Actions that contravene the valid Shonan Student Union Charter and Rules, as well as the norms established by Keio University, the All Keio student Council, local authorities, the Japanese government, and others that the Shonan Student Union must adhere to.
2. Dissolution of the Shonan Student Union.
3. Actions that contradict resolutions of the SFC Student General Assembly.
SFC General Assembly and Voting
What is the General Assembly of SFC Students?
General Assembly of SFC Student is the highest decision making body of Shonan Student Union. Since it democratically represents the minds of SFC students, it is an important assembly
What we do on General Assembly of SFC Students
(1) Approval of the members of Executive Committee
(2) Budget approval
(3) Report of fiscal period
(4) Explanation, Q&A, and vote in the proposals above
Voting
In the General Assembly, you vote to decide the members of Executive Committee and other proposals.
Every SFC student has a right to vote.
We would be glad if you come to vote.
Union Institute Subcommittee
What is the Union Institute Subcommittee?
Concept: All SFC students, as “residents” of SFC, discuss how to achieve SFC-like self-governance and what SFC should aim for, and carry out actual activities based on these discussions. At the same time, it also plays a role in monitoring the activities of the Shonan Student Union Executive Committee and Secretariat and providing advice based on the ideal form of SFC self-governance. The Union Institute Subcommittee is established to be the basis for Shonan Student Union.
Actual Activity
We have discussions every week based on a specific theme. The topics are vary and differ each time, but they are all related to SFC. (Examples: “Ideal of SFC and its contents: what do you think is SFC-like and not SFC-like?” [Getting to know about SFC and thinking proactively about a plan of improvement], “Make a plan of improvement of SFC about course taking and campus atmosphere”, “Should as many SFC students as possible join the self-governance?”) The content of the activities varies, such as a workshop format at one time, and a lecture format at another time. You can bring what you want to talk about and what you want to do and make it a reality.
How to Participate
A: People who join the SFC UNION will join the Union Institute Subcommittee. Anyone who belongs to SFC can participate in. (Students of the Faculty of Policy Management, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Faculty of Nursing and Medical Care, Graduate School of Media and Governance, and Graduate School of Health Management)
B: If you want to see how the Union Institute Subcommittee held, please fill out the form below.
Special Committees
A special committee is an organisation for cooperation between the Secretariat members and people who are related to SFC to carry out projects. The Executive Council approves the establishment and dissolution of the committee. In principle, the committee is headed by an Executive Committee member, but in some cases an SFC student with expertise other than that of the Executive Committee member may be appointed.
The special committee currently active is the Special Committee on Gender Equality. In November 2021, the committee conducted a survey on sanitary products and submitted a request jointly signed by Keio Student President to the university for the installation of sanitary products. In 2022, we are conducting a survey on awareness in circles and to promote the installation of OiTr.
Creation of Subcommittees
A subcommittee can be established with two members. To create a subcommittee, the following conditions must be met and approved by the executive committee:
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The purpose and objectives of the subcommittee must be defined, and they should have public relevance in light of SFC's autonomy.
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Membership requirements for the subcommittee must be established, and it should be composed of individuals who have a direct relationship with SFC.
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Positions, including the representative of the subcommittee, first-term officers, timing of the general meeting, subcommittee regulations, and communication methods must be defined.
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Members should not include individuals or groups that are part of extreme leftist violent organizations or that contradict the welfare of SFC students.
Those who wish to establish a subcommittee should submit a "Petition" using the form below.
Co-student Organisations
The Shonan Student Union recognizes organizations active at SFC as Co-student Organisations and provides operational support and equipment rentals. Additionally, organizations deemed particularly beneficial to the welfare of SFC students will receive funding for their activities. Co-student Organisations may also be asked to send staff to events organized by the Shonan Student Union.
For more details, please refer to the Co-student Organisations Regulations.
Organizations wishing to be recognized as Co-student Organisations should contact us through the inquiry form.