Members

Council is made up of elected representatives from across the Collegiate University. This page lists the current votes available to individuals on CUSU Council. The votes listed here are subject to provisions in the Union's Standing Orders.

Council 'Voting Membership':

  • The Common/Combination Rooms of Affiliated Cambridge Colleges shall each have three voting representatives.
    • Votes should normally be allocated to the President and/or External Officer.
    • Where there is both a JCR and MCR, the JCR shall hold two votes, and the MCR shall hold one vote.
    • Affiliated Common Rooms and the number of votes each has are listed below.
  • Sabbatical Officers (of which there are six: President, Education, Access & Funding, Welfare & Rights, Women's and Disabled Students')
  • Campaigns Officers of the Part-Time Executive, inclusive of Portfolio Campaigns Officer/s and the Head of Ethical Affairs.
  • The Liberation Campaigns shall each have two votes.
    • BME, iCUSU and LGBT+ shall have two votes.
    • DSC and WomCam shall each have one vote (they have two votes as other Liberation Campaigns, however their 'second' vote is held by the Disabled Students' Officer and Women's Officer as Sabbatical Officers).
  • The Graduate Union President.
  • Twelve School-level Student Academic Representatives.
  • The Elected NUS Delegates.

No individual can exercise more than one vote at CUSU Council.

The affiliated Colleges and their number of votes are:

JCR Christ's College x 2 MCR Christ's College x 1
JCR Churchill College x 2 MCR Churchill College x 1
JCR Clare College x 2 MCR Clare College x 1
JCR Downing College x 2 GSB Clare Hall College x 3
ECSU Emmanuel College x 2 MCR Downing College x1
JCR Fitzwilliam College x 2 MCR Emmanuel College x 1
JCR Girton College x 2 MCR Fitzwilliam College x 1
HUSJCR Homerton College x 2 MCR Girton College x 1
JCSU Jesus College x 3 MCR Homerton College x 1
KCSU King's College x 2 MCR Hughes Hall College x 3
LCSU Lucy Cavendish College x 3 MCR King's College x 1
JCR Magdalene College x 3 MCR Murray Edwards College x 1
JCR Murray Edwards College x 2 MCR Newnham College x 1
JCR Newnham College x 2 Graduate Parlour Pembroke College x 1
Junior Parlour Pembroke College x 2 MCR Queens' College x 1
JCR Peterhouse College x 3 MCR Robinson College x 1
JCR Queens' College x 2 MCR St Catharine's College x 1
RCSA Robinson College x 2 Combination Room St Edmund's College x 3
JCR St Catharine's College x 2 Samuel Butler Room St John's College x 1
SJCJCR St John's College x 2 MCR Selwyn College x 1
JCR Selwyn College x 2 MCR Sidney Sussex College x 1
SSCSU Sidney Sussex College x 2 BA Soc Trinity College x 1
TCSU Trinity College x 2 MCR Trinity Hall College x 1
JCR Trinity Hall College x 2 WCSA Wolfson College x 3
DCSA Darwin College x 3

The Part-Time Executive and their allocated votes are as follows:

Position Current role-holder/s Number of votes held by position
Head of Ethical Affairs Ellen Pearce-Davies and Dylan Amin 1
Ethical Affairs Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Ethical Affairs Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Access and Funding Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Access and Funding Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Education Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Education Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Union Development Campaigns Officer Elected in Michaelmas 1
Union Development Campaigns Officer Miranda Hewkin Smith 1
Welfare and Rights Campaigns Officer Carolyn Irvine 1
Welfare and Rights Campaigns Officer Felicity Kersting 1
NUS Delegate Angus Satow 1
NUS Delegate Lola Olufemi 1
NUS Delegate Miriam Gauntlett 1
NUS Delegate Connor Macdonald 1
NUS Delegate Carine Valarché 1

 

Guidance on voting by proxy from the Standing Orders (provision D.7(iii)):

  • All Council members should either attend Council in person or send a substitute (proxy) by providing written notification to the Chair. Notification must reach the Chair before the start of the meeting.
  • The substitute must be a CUSU Member.
  • Council members should inform their constituents of any instance of proxy voting on their behalf.
  • The proxy votes of affiloiated Common Rooms must be students from their constituent College.
  • Sabbatical Officers, members of the Part-Time Executive and NUS Delegates are prohibited from sending a proxy in their place for their particular vote, save for the Heads of Liberation Campaigns (see next point).
  • Proxy votes of the Heads of Liberation Campaigns must be members of the respective Liberation Campaign Executive.
  • Proxy votes of Student Academic Representatives must belong to the School constituency and represent Ordinary Members at the respective level of study (i.e. undergraduate or postgraduate).