Talking from my time in EA NTNU, my experience was indeed the complete opposite. Funding and follow up from CEA was excellent, kind and thoughtful. There were virtually zero strings attached and at no point did I feel like they were controlling.
The feelings of other organisers might differ of course, but I’ve not heard about this from anyone personally, and I did talk to quite a lot of student group leaders around 2017-2019.
(Just wanted to add a counter datapoint: I have been a local community organizer for several years and this has not been my experience.)
Talking from my time in EA NTNU, my experience was indeed the complete opposite. Funding and follow up from CEA was excellent, kind and thoughtful. There were virtually zero strings attached and at no point did I feel like they were controlling.
The feelings of other organisers might differ of course, but I’ve not heard about this from anyone personally, and I did talk to quite a lot of student group leaders around 2017-2019.
Again, this is just my experience.