The President is the official spokesperson for UMSU and represents students to the University, government and community.
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Wow, O-Week, what a blast! I hope you all had as much fun as we did! If you didn’t make it onto campus, don’t worry because we will be back to give you another taste (literally and figuratively) of what’s on offer from your Student Union in week 2 for U-Week. Here is a little bit of our O-Week by numbers…
The following is a statement written by the UMSU President, Kara Hadgraft, as the spokesperson for UMSU in response to inquiries about motions passed at the Students’ Council meeting on Tuesday 9 April 2013.
The following graph displays the expenditure of the Student Union’s Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF) allocation for 2012. In 2012, UMSU received approximately 21% of the total University of Melbourne SSAF collected. Other allocations included to Melbourne University Sport, Childcare, Melbourne University Student Union Limited (MUSUL), the Graduate Student Association (GSA) and the University itself.
The following message is in relation to a resolution passed by the UMSU Students’ Council meeting on the 25th of February 2013 directing the UMSU President to publish information on the Facebook page in relation to the inhumane treatment of refugees seeking asylum in Australia by successive Australian Governments.
The following message is in relation to a resolution passed by the UMSU Students’ Council meeting on the 25th of February 2013.
The Council directed the President of UMSU to publish information about the cuts to the Humanities and Social Sciences Faculty at La Trobe University and the students who have been consequently charged with misconduct in relation to protesting the cuts.
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PiperAlderman are currently undertaking a class action against Vodaphone in relation to claims of sub-standard service (dropped calls, failed calls, failed SMS and failed voicemail).
Read on to find out more and how you can participate.
This afternoon, UMSU Students’ Council approved a Change Management Plan to come into effect from 1 January 2013. This change is a significant step towards restoring democratic control of student engagement activities under UMSU as an organisation that is elected and run by students as the most responsive and effective way to run student services, support and activities.
Co-hosted by the UMSU Queer + Wom*n’s Departments, “Rad Sex & Consent Week” was a week of radically re-thinking and re-learning sex education that included workshops, facilitated discussions and other events centred around making sex safer, more respectful and more fun for ourselves and others!
Both the Bradley Review of Higher Education (2008) and the Base Funding Review (2011) recommended an immediate increase in funding to higher education. If the Government wishes to maintain a world-class university system in Australia, now is the time to increase, not decrease funding to higher education.
