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The Students’ Union, University of Calgary (commonly abbreviated to UCSU^[1]) is the undergraduate students’ association of the University of Calgary. With origins in the students’ council of the Calgary Normal School, the UCSU was established in its current incarnation by the Universities Act of 1966, which incorporated the University of Calgary as a separate entity from the University of Alberta.^[2]

A non-profit organization with an annual budget of $12 million CAD,^[3] the UCSU is led by students who are elected democratically by the undergraduate student body to serve one-year terms.^[4] The UCSU provides student services, manages on-campus businesses, and conducts student-focused advocacy before various tiers of government and external bodies.

History

1905-1944: Calgary Normal School

Once Alberta became a province in 1905, the Legislative Assembly decided that the city of Calgary would house Alberta’s first teacher training institute, the Calgary Normal School.^[5] Early student government at the Normal School consisted of at least two committees, the Literary and Athletic Executives, composed of students elected to represent their peers in academic and extracurricular matters.^[6]^[7] By the 1920s, student representation was performed by one consolidated student council. Normal School students voted for representatives from their individual classes, as well as a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and an official school Pianist.^[8] Elections occurred twice each academic year, one in fall and one in spring, owing to the duration of courses at the school.^[8]

1945-1947: Becoming an undergraduate association

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Yearbook photographs of John "Jack" Black, first President of the Calgary Students' Union (left) and Catherine "Kay" Pierce (right), Vice-President of the University of Alberta's Students' Union (1945).

In 1945, all three Normal Schools in Alberta were absorbed by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education.^[9] The Calgary school became formally known as its Faculty of Education in Calgary, and informally known as the Calgary Branch.^[10] Although the Students’ Union of the University of Alberta (UASU) initially assumed this meant it would take on the responsibility of providing for student representation at the Calgary Branch, students in Calgary protested the idea of surrendering their own student council and paying the UASU's students’ association fees.^[11] Such was the Branch’s desire to retain control over its own activities and yearbook that the UASU sent one of its Vice-Presidents, Catherine Pierce, from Edmonton to Calgary in November 1945.^[11] She negotiated with the council under John “Jack” Black, president of the Calgary Branch’s student council for its fall 1945 term.^[12]

A compromise was struck between UASU and Black’s administration. UASU refunded half of the fees paid by the Calgary students^[11] and the Calgary Branch retained its own Calgary Students' Union (CSU), though its governing council would have to operate within the bounds of UASU’s constitution.^[12] Furthermore, the Calgary campus would again publish an independent edition of its yearbook. As Black’s term marked a change in the purpose of student governance from providing for trainee teachers to providing for undergraduates, the modern-day Students’ Union considers Black to be its first President.^[13]

The practice of electing a council twice a year persisted from Normal School tradition until 1947. Afterwards, students elected to the CSU’s council served one-year terms. The CSU’s council also changed its structure to align with UASU’s constitution.^[14] The top four positions of its governing council were now President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The rest of the council consisted of the yearbook’s editor, a social convener, representatives for the Industrial Arts programs offered by the branch, and Literary and Athletic representatives. The Calgary Branch also imported the controversial Wauneita Society from the UASU, a quasi-sorority women’s interest group.^[15] This society selected its own president, who received a de facto seat on the Calgary Students’ Council.

The council’s role evolved into chiefly overseeing the financial side of planning and maintaining student events or amenities. It therefore established subcommittees in 1948 to execute plans and policies. One such subcommittee was the University Athletic Board, which provided practical support such as equipment repairs to sports teams.^[16] The council delegated professional development activities to the Educational Undergraduate Society.^[16] Some campus clubs endured from the Normal School, and some new ones began. There were clubs for students interested in theatre, choir, debate, philosophy, and religion. Physical activities students could participate in included ping pong, basketball, bowling, hockey, cheerleading, and folk dancing. A club for veterans of the Second World War opened for staff and student alike.^[17] The CSU also oversaw the introduction of a campus newspaper.^[18]

1948-1957: Initial steps towards autonomy

Dr. Andrew Doucette became the Calgary Branch's director in 1947.^[19] An engineering graduate from Nova Scotia, he had entered teaching and worked at the Calgary Normal School before enlisting in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1940.^[20] Having attained the rank of Major, he had recently returned from serving in Europe at the time of his appointment as director. That year also saw Frederick Cartwright elected president of the students' council. Cartwright, the son of two deaf parents, would go on to become Superintendent of the Alberta School for the Deaf.^[21] Doucette and Cartwright would work towards securing greater autonomy for the branch.

In the summer of 1948, Cartwright’s administration requested that changes be made to the UASU’s constitution, so that the Calgary branch could have its own Committee on Student Affairs.^[22] This Edmonton-based committee, made of delegates from the UASU and University of Alberta leadership, supervised matters of student discipline and welfare across all of the University's campuses.^[23] Despite the rocky start in 1945, relations between the CSU and UASU were good enough that the UASU supported the proposal,^[24] and the University's Board of Governors ratified the changes in 1949.^[22] Thus, in an early step towards self-governance, the Calgary Branch established its own student affairs committee.

In the winter of 1948, Doucette met with the Calgary University Committee, a pressure group of Calgarians who wanted to see an autonomous university in their city.^[25] Doucette encouraged them by sharing what he believed the branch would need in order to introduce university-level Arts and Science programs, which would expand the Branch from being a single Faculty of Education.^[26]

Following these developments, Doucette and Cartwright travelled to the University of Alberta's main campus together in early 1949 to report on the Branch’s progress.^[22] A University of Calgary institutional report would later reflect on Doucette and Cartwright’s work as having impressed authorities in Edmonton enough that they began giving serious consideration to calls by Calgary community activists for the city’s Branch to house multiple Faculties.^[27] Indeed, between 1952 and 1957, the Calgary Branch expanded to offer undergraduate programs in Arts, Science, Engineering, and Physical Education.^[28] Having become a university branch rather than a single faculty of education, the school was renamed to the University of Alberta in Calgary (UAC) in 1957.^[28]

1958-1966: Attaining autonomy

The provincial government, finding that the UAC had outgrown the building it shared with the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art, ordered construction of a new campus in 1958.^[29] UAC moved to its new campus—the present-day site of the University of Calgary—in 1960.^[29] The CSU moved into the basement of the Arts building, accompanied by offices for the yearbook, campus newspaper, and a bookstore.^[27] The construction of an independent campus was the realization of a dream for Andrew Doucette, who was now experiencing ill health.^[30] Forced to scale back his duties, he was disappointed that he could not serve as the branch’s first president at its new location, though he remained with the institution until 1961 to acclimate incoming president Malcolm Taylor.^[30] The CSU dedicated the first edition of the yearbook published on the new campus to Doucette.^[31]

A Committee on Student Affairs was also established for the Calgary campus that year. Walter Johns, President of the University of Alberta, described the student body as “increasingly competent and responsible” in their ability to conduct their own affairs.^[32] Indeed, the composition of the Calgary Students’ Union’s governing council evolved to represent the various faculties now present on campus. Students continued to elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, though they now voted for Faculty Representatives for Engineering, Commerce, and Education; Arts and Science students were represented by one Faculty Representative.^[33] Other positions included coordinators responsible for overseeing cultural matters, athletics, women’s affairs, and public relations.^[33] Finally, students elected a representative of the Calgary campus for the National Federation of Canadian University Students.

Although the appetite for an independent University remained, the CSU did not actively pursue the matter until October 1963, when Walter Johns declared that an autonomous University of Calgary would be “useless and uncalled for.”^[34] This made the front page of the Calgary Herald, as Johns' statement attracted the ire of students and staff alike at the Calgary campus.^[34] The CSU held a referendum on November 22, 1963, asking students to vote on whether they wished for the Calgary branch to achieve “complete academic and administrative autonomy” from the University of Alberta; 78.5% voted yes.^[35] Johns, in turn, blamed the conduct of Calgarians for causing “bitterness and bad feeling on both sides which should not have occurred.”^[36] The rising tension between Calgary and Edmonton spooked some student councillors, who feared the University of Alberta would retaliate by withholding their degrees.^[37] The CSU nonetheless continued supporting independence efforts in 1964, selling stickers and badges emblazoned with slogans in favour of autonomy to fund its work.^[38] By one account, these made their way on to Johns’ car in Edmonton.^[27]

The University of Alberta’s Board of Governors ultimately responded by granting the Calgary branch two independent governance bodies in late 1964. The branch would receive its own General Faculties Council, responsible for academic affairs and the supervision of student affairs; and its own Senate, responsible for external relations.^[39] This was still insufficient to pacify the Calgary University Committee, which petitioned the province to revisit the idea of granting the Calgary campus independence.^[40] The University of Alberta subsequently recommended a full separation between both institutions,^[41] prompting the Government of Alberta to introduce a bill to that end in 1966.^[42] On April 15, 1966, royal assent was given to the Universities Act. The University of Calgary became an independent institution, and the Students’ Union, University of Calgary was incorporated as its official undergraduate study body.^[2]

Finances

The UCSU derives 10% of its operating revenue from student fees and 90% from its own commercial activity.^[43] This allows UCSU to charge one of the lowest students’ association fees in Canada as of 2019,^[44] at $65 per academic year for an average full-time undergraduate.^[45] The UCSU has traditionally put any and all fee increases to a vote, even when continuing to offer services without an increase would mean operating at a loss, such as the referendum on increasing its Health and Dental Plan in 2022.^[46] As such, the UCSU’s core operating student fee has not increased since 1995.^[43] Annual financial audits are available on its website.^[45]

MacEwan Hall

The UCSU's base of operations is MacEwan Hall, located on the main campus of the University of Calgary. The building consists of two parts: the original MacEwan Hall, which opened in 1967,^[47] and the MacEwan Student Centre, an extension to the original hall that opened in 1988.^[48] Colloquially, the building is known on campus and in Calgary as 'Mac Hall.'^[49] Two subsidiaries of the UCSU manage concert bookings and events using spaces within the Hall: the MacEwan Conference and Event Centre,^[50] and Mac Hall Concerts.^[51] The first act to perform at MacEwan Hall was Ian & Sylvia on October 13, 1967.^[52]

1906-1961: Before MacEwan Hall

Until 1960, the Calgary Branch shared a campus with the Provincial Institute of Technology and Arts. PITA itself was the precursor to the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Alberta University of the Arts, and the building PITA shared with the Calgary Branch is still in use today as SAIT's Heritage Hall.^[53] Initially, the CSU operated out of one room^[54] and shared this space with student clubs, whose members often left furniture owned by the CSU strewn across campus.^[55]

Andrew Doucette sympathized with students for lacking designated space,^[54] so in 1951, once the Branch had been granted its own Committee on Student Affairs, he began working with the CSU to find a more appropriate space for its operations.^[55] On the campus’s grounds was a hut that had been used by army medics during the war. Doucette successfully won permission from the University of Alberta to turn control of the building over to the CSU.^[22] Students renovated the building themselves and acquired all its furniture, except for a rug that Doucette donated to the building personally.^[55] Throughout the building’s lifetime, students continued to assume responsibility for its maintenance.^[56] The new building provided offices for the campus newspaper, clubs, council executives, and the yearbook team. It also contained council meeting chambers and a games room.^[56]

1962-1967: Building MacEwan Hall

In 1962, the CSU asked students to vote on whether they would accept a temporary $10 increase to their students' association fee in order to fundraise for the construction of a new Students’ Union building. The referendum passed with 94% of the vote and work began on construction.^[57] Student contributions paid for 55% of the costs and the University of Calgary's Board of Governors paid the remaining 45%.^[58] The Hall was named after Grant MacEwan, then-Lieutenant-Governor of Alberta, who attended its opening.^[59] With services ranging from office space to dining facilities, it was managed by a committee of five University delegates and six UCSU delegates.^[59]

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MacEwan Student Centre

1968-1988: Building MacEwan Student Centre

By 1980, enrolment at the University of Calgary had broadly increased year on year to the point that MacEwan Hall was no longer large enough to accommodate them. Students were again asked by the UCSU if they would pay a temporary building fee, this time to facilitate an expansion of MacEwan Hall; the referendum passed.^[60]

Successive UCSU Presidents oversaw construction of the expansion, MacEwan Student Centre, including Myles McDougall. McDougall, who would later become Alberta's Minister for Advanced Education in 2025, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony when construction began in 1985.^[60] The expansion opened in 1988, adding 16,500 square metres of space to MacEwan Hall. It contained facilities such as a counselling clinic, a health centre, study spaces, club spaces, Native Student Services, the campus bookstore, and a ten-outlet food court.^[60]

Services and programming

Student financial assistance

Awards and bursaries

The UCSU’s first scholarship was established in 1969, after incoming university president Alfred Carrothers declined a monetary welcome gift from the UCSU and instead asked that the money be put to good use. The UCSU established the A.W.R. Carrothers Scholarship, which it continues to offer annually.^[27]^[61] The UCSU’s second ongoing financial award, the Ray Alward Memorial Bursary, was introduced a decade later,^[62] in honour of MacEwan Hall's long-serving caretaker who was popular among students.^[63]

As of 2025, the UCSU offers a range of merit-based and needs-based scholarships and bursaries for the University of Calgary’s undergraduates.^[64] Students can also apply for funding to support their academic and professional development. These funds include conference and research funding,^[65] as well as employment subsidies^[66] and funding to support student-led sustainability efforts.^[67]

Volunteer tax clinic

The SU oversees an annual tax filing clinic, staff by student volunteers who are trained to Canada Revenue Agency standards.^[68] Low-income members of the campus' community, including students, staff and faculty, may take advantage of free tax filing services.^[69] The clinic, first established in 2000, generally files over 1,000 returns annually.^[69]

Health services

Health plan

The UCSU administers a health and dental plan for undergraduates.^[70] Health insurance was first introduced in the 1988-89 academic year by the 46th Students’ Legislative Council,^[71] and dental coverage was added in 1991.^[72] The cost of these plans combined did not increase between 1993 and 2021.^[73] Students were asked to vote on whether they would accept an increase to the cost of their health plan in 2022 in order to increase coverage; the majority voted no.^[73] As of 2022, the UCSU’s student health and dental plan remains one of the cheapest in Canada.^[46]

On-campus health

The UCSU began exploring ways to introduce on-campus mental health provision for students on campus in 1970. Financial constraints limited these early efforts to the funding of a counselling hotline, the Crisis Centre.^[74] The hotline was primarily staffed by volunteers, and fielded inquiries from students seeking help on various issues, ranging from loneliness to academic stress.^[74]

In 2008, the UCSU funded the development of the SU Wellness Centre to provide health services on-campus.^[75] Located within the UCSU’s building, this Centre is staffed by medical and mental health professionals who provide care to members of the University’s community.^[76] In 2016, provincial funding facilitated the hiring of more social workers and psychologists at the Centre to meet growing demand for mental health support in particular.^[77]

SU Campus Food Bank

The UCSU can trace its history of participating in charitable efforts to combat food insecurity since its early incarnation under the Calgary Normal School. The Students’ Council organized winter fundraising galas for the benefit of the Sunshine Society,^[78] a philanthropic arm of the Calgary Herald that provided necessities to low-income families in the city.^[79]

In 1993, a student club, the Students’ Food Action Committee, began raising awareness of the issue of food insecurity on campus. The UCSU coordinated a partnership with the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank, thus maintaining its own food bank for the first time.^[80] In its first year of operation, the bank was utilized by 170 students and their relatives, including 60 children.^[81] In 1996, the UCSU began managing the food bank independently of the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank,^[82] which it continues to operate as of May 2025.^[83]

Since 2021, the SU Campus Food Bank has seen an uptick in demand. The UCSU completed 227 requests for food hampers in the academic year of 2021-22, and 526 for the academic year of 2022-23.^[84] In August 2024, the UCSU reported that usage for the 2024-25 academic year was on track to surpass previous records.^[85] Also in late 2024, the UCSU began offering an affordable meal program through its on-campus restaurant, The Den, in a bid to address food insecurity on campus.^[86]

Every October, the SU Campus Food Bank maintains an annual food drive, run in partnership with the University of Calgary. Students and faculty alike are encouraged to form teams and compete to collect the most donations.^[87] These events are generally themed, such as the 2022 drive entitled ‘Stack the Mac.’ Participants were tasked with collecting enough non-perishable pasta that the UCSU could build a tower taller than the University of Calgary’s mascot, Rex.^[88] The SU Campus Food Bank’s operations are also supported by year-round donations.^[83]

LGBT+ programming

Early initiatives

February 1969 saw the UCSU invite Harold Call, American LGBT rights activist and U.S. army veteran, to give a talk at MacEwan Hall.^[89]^[90] This was four months before same-sex sexual activity was decriminalized in Canada. Call’s talk focused on the negative experiences of the LGBT community during interactions with North American police. Three plainclothes undercover officers from the Calgary Police were in attendance at the talk; they left when Call identified them as police officers from the podium.^[89]

Q Centre

The SU Q Centre is a centre offering peer support services, events, and space to socialize for students who are members or allies of the LGBT+ community.^[91] Primarily staffed by volunteers, the Q Centre opened on November 3, 2010.^[92] Within a decade of its opening, the Centre had expanded from 10 volunteers to 40.^[92]

Other initiatives

Every August since 2012, the UCSU participates in Calgary Pride.^[93] In 2021, the Q Centre and wider UCSU successfully campaigned to simplify the process for students who legally change their names to update their records with the University of Calgary.^[94] Students also received the option to submit a preferred name.^[95]

Academic and campus services

The UCSU has connected students in need of academic assistance with tutors since 2012 via the SU Tutor Registry.^[96]^[97] The UCSU also manages over 6,000 lockers throughout the institution,^[97] maintains a guide to study spaces across the University,^[98] and operates the only Lost and Found on campus.^[99]

Philanthropic ventures

Refugee Student Program

In March 1986, students voted in favour of establishing a small levy to support the enrollment of at least one refugee student every year at the University.^[97] In partnership with the World University Service of Canada,^[100] students supported by the program include survivors of the Second Sudanese Civil War^[101] and students from refugee camps in Malawi^[102] and Kenya.^[103] 97% of students supported by the program go on to graduate.^[102]

The Committee of 10,000

Each year, the UCSU collects a small levy from undergraduates for the benefit of the Committee of 10,000.^[104] This committee, composed of student volunteers, accepts applications from charitable causes in Calgary and Alberta, and decides which should receive the funds raised from the student body.^[105] The UCSU’s primary permanent off-campus charitable effort, it was founded in honour of Olga Valda, who had been both a student and benefactor of the University of Calgary.

Valda, a ballerina by profession, arrived in Canada in 1919 and moved with her second husband to Calgary in 1950, where she established the Calgary Ballet School.^[106] In 1961, aged 69, Valda enrolled at the University of Calgary to pursue a bachelor’s degree in archeology.^[107] She quickly established a warm relationship with the UCSU, founding a Ballet Club that also conducted showcases of Russian folk dancing during her first year on campus.^[108] The UCSU presented Valda with an award in 1963 for her contributions to campus life and deemed her to be one of the campus’s “most celebrated” students in 1966. In a profile of Valda’s academic life for the Calgary Herald, Grant MacEwan wrote that she was the oldest graduate in Canada at the time of her graduation in 1969.^[107]

Valda maintained a relationship with the University until her death in 1973.^[109]^[110] She bequeathed a portion of her estate to the University of Calgary to provide bursaries for students who needed it. This bursary, which the University named after her, ran until 2005.^[111] The UCSU decided to honour Valda as well by establishing the “Committee of 10,000,” so named due to the number of students enrolled at the time of its 1973 founding.^[104]

Student clubs

Student clubs may sign up with the UCSU to become an SU Registered Club, which entitles them to access services provided by the students' association, including free event spaces and activities funding.^[112] As of 2024, there are more than 300 SU Registered Clubs active at the university.^[113] In the 21st century, organizations that have registered with the SU include clubs for aquaponics and improvisational comedy.^[114]^[115]

Early student clubs: 1911-1945

The student government of the Calgary Normal School, the respective predecessors to the UCSU and University of Calgary, initially consisted of two committees that were responsible for arranging extracurricular activities.^[6] The first was the Literary Executive, which organized weekly assemblies known as the ‘Friday Lit.’ Each class was invited to put on a short dramatic performance for the enjoyment of the student body.^[7] Most were student-run, though staff would sometimes be enlisted to help if a class wished to perform a musical.^[7] The second student committee was the Athletic Executive, tasked with organizing sporting events for their fellow students.^[6] Representatives were each responsible for a sport, with early portfolios including lawn tennis, baseball, and hockey.^[7]

Events

The UCSU hosts a series of regular events for the benefit of campus life. It has also hosted events that have been discontinued.

Ongoing events

Teaching Excellence Awards (1983-)

The UCSU began distributing awards for outstanding performances by University of Calgary instructors in 1975.^[116] These awards were formalized into the Teaching Excellence Awards in 1983.^[117] Every fall, the UCSU invites students to nominate instructors and teaching assistants at the University of Calgary that have positively impacted their education and experience.^[117] Winners are awarded at a presentation ceremony in April.^[117]

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Clubs Week in MacEwan Hall, 2013.

Clubs Week (1993-)

Once every semester, student clubs are invited to set up displays in MacEwan Hall to showcase their club's activities and recruit new members.^[118]^[119]

Undergraduate Research Symposium (2009-)

Since 2006, the annual SU Undergraduate Research Symposium has celebrated research by the University's undergraduates.^[120]^[121] Students who have participated in research while enrolled at the institution showcase their work and receive awards.^[122]

Sex Week (2012-)

In 2012, the UCSU and its Q Centre first partnered with the Women’s Resource Centre and campus Wellness Centre to host Sex Week, which has been held every year since.^[123] The occasion features workshops and events intended to further sexual education, and make students aware of resources available to them for matters such as sexual assault or sexual identity.^[123]^[124]

StressLess Week (2021-)

In the final week of November, the UCSU hosts a series of activities designed to help students alleviate stress^[125] ahead of exams in December.^[126]

Discontinued events

Bermuda Shorts Day (1961-2023)

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A statue outside the University's Energy Environment and Experiential Learning Building^[127] is vandalized with a pair of Bermuda shorts (April 2015).

In 1961, a student named Alan Arthur, who had recently purchased his first pair of Bermuda shorts, wrote on a blackboard ahead of the last day of classes: "Tomorrow is Bermuda Shorts Day. Everyone wear Bermuda Shorts."^[128]^[129] 250 students participated, assembling to play marbles.^[130]^[128] (Although the event is occasionally attributed to Maurice Yacowar, the first editor of The Gauntlet and later SU President,^[130] Yacowar confirmed that Arthur was the event's unwitting founder in 2005.^[128])

Students subsequently made an annual tradition of wearing shorts on the last day of classes. The UCSU began organizing events including live music and beer gardens in 1979,^[130] though it would not become the primary organizer until 1989, when the University asked the students' council to consolidate festivities.^[131]^[132] The event attracted recognition by Canadian media as a local tradition,^[133]^[134] and criticism for unsafe or disorderly activities.^[135] Events that took place outside the UCSU's control were occasionally disbursed by the police, with one notable example occurring in 2010, when students celebrated by racing modified couches that they pushed down a hill.^[136]

An off-campus Bermuda Shorts Day party was the scene of the 2014 Calgary stabbings.^[137] One of the attack's victims, Lawrence Hong, was an urban studies undergraduate who had volunteered at the SU's Q Centre for three years, where he was a popular mentor to other students.^[138]^[139] The Q Centre held a vigil in Hong's memory.^[140]

In its final few years of operation as an SU event, Bermuda Shorts Day ran at a deficit.^[141] By 2019, the UCSU reported that it had incurred a loss of over $98,000.^[142] In 2018 and 2019, the UCSU attributed the expense to dwindling attendance numbers, exacerbated by the University's expectation that the UCSU would bear all the costs of security for the event.^[143]^[142] The University had contended in 2016 that it did not expect the UCSU to cover all the security expenses of the event, but did not dispute that it had begun charging the UCSU almost $100,000 a year by 2017.^[141]

The most recent UCSU-organized Bermuda Shorts Day occurred in 2023.^[144] By 2024, the UCSU was no longer able to pay the University's rising costs, and events were reported as having been driven off-campus.^[135]

Students' Legislative Council

The UCSU's highest governing body is the Students' Legislative Council, where all resolutions, major policies, and positions are voted on. All undergraduates enrolled at the University are eligible to participate in the Council's yearly general election.^[145]

The Council consists of four Executives, who work in their positions full-time, and at least twelve Faculty Representatives from the University of Calgary's various academic Faculties.^[145] Each Faculty may elect an additional representative for every additional 2,000 students enrolled. Undergraduates also elect two representatives to the University of Calgary's Senate, and one representative to the University's Board of Governors.^[145]

2025-26 Students' Legislative Council

Role	Office
President	Naomie Bakana
Vice President Academic	Gabriela Dziegielewska
Vice President External	Julia Law
Vice President Internal	Lorraine Ndovi
Faculty of Arts Representatives	Malia Jolly, Simchah Atanda, Mahad Rzain, Aitazaz Shah
Faculty of Science Representatives	Haris Naveed, Abdu Negmeldin, Emil Rasmussen
Haskayne School of Business Representatives	Joey Szasz, Griffin Stewart
Schulich School of Engineering Representatives	Ibad Rehman, Emmanuel Fasesan, Fardin Aryan
Werklund School of Education Representative	Sienna Yee
Faculty of Kinesiology Representative	Amanat Panech
Faculty of Law Representative	Faisal Baghazal
Cumming School of Medicine Representatives	Nikhil Srivalsan, Hannah Kim
Faculty of Nursing Representative	Taylor Strelow
Faculty of Social Work Representative	Vacant
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Representative	Stephanie Cheung
Faculty of the School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape	Matthew Moreau

Non-Voting Officials

Role	Office
Board of Governors	Lujaina Eldelebshany
Senate	Laiba Nasir, Amber Quo
Speaker of the Legislative Council
Deputy Speaker

Provincial and federal representation

The UCSU is a member of the Canadian Alliance of Students Associations, a federal advocacy organization that unites students' associations throughout Canada.^[146] Previously, the organization belonged to provincial advocacy organization Council of Alberta University Students.^[147]

Notable former student leaders

Former Presidents and Vice-Presidents

Template:Columns-list Former SU Faculty Representatives and Student Officers

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-| data7            = {{url|https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/| sucalgary }}
+| data7            = {{URL|https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/| sucalgary }}
 }}
 The '''Students’ Union, University of Calgary''' (commonly abbreviated to '''UCSU'''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Students' Union University of Calgary |url=https://www.casa-acae.com/ucsu |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Canadian Alliance of Student Associations |language=en}}</ref>) is the undergraduate [[Students' union|students’ association]] of the [[University of Calgary]]. With origins in the students’ council of the Calgary Normal School, the UCSU was established in its current incarnation by the Universities Act of 1966, which incorporated the University of Calgary as a separate entity from the [[University of Alberta]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite canlaw|short title=An Act respecting Provincial Universities|abbr=S.A.|year=1966|chapter=105|section=40|subsection=3|link=https://www.canlii.org/en/ab/laws/astat/sa-1966-c-105/latest/sa-1966-c-105.html|linkloc=Canlii}}</ref>
-A [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit organization]] with an annual budget of $12 million [[Canadian dollar|CAD]],<ref>{{Cite web |first= |date=June 2024 |title=Students' Union, University of Calgary 2024 / 2025 Operating Budget |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-2025-SU-Operating-Budget.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> the UCSU is led by students who are elected democratically by the [[Undergraduate education|undergraduate]] student body to serve one-year terms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 April 2024 |title=Union Bylaw |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Union-Bylaw-April-2024.v.1.1.pdf |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU provides student services, manages on-campus businesses, and conducts student-focused advocacy before various tiers of government and external bodies.
+A [[Nonprofit organization|non-profit organization]] with an annual budget of $12 million [[Canadian dollar|CAD]],<ref>{{Cite web |first= |date=June 2024 |title=Students' Union, University of Calgary 2024 / 2025 Operating Budget |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/2024-2025-SU-Operating-Budget.pdf |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> the UCSU is led by students who are elected democratically by the [[Undergraduate education|undergraduate]] student body to serve one-year terms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 April 2024 |title=Union Bylaw |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Union-Bylaw-April-2024.v.1.1.pdf |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU provides student services, manages on-campus businesses, and conducts student-focused advocacy before various tiers of government and external bodies.
 == History ==
 === 1905-1944: Calgary Normal School ===
-Once Alberta became a province in 1905, the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|Legislative Assembly]] decided that the city of [[Calgary]] would house Alberta’s first teacher training institute, the Calgary Normal School.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-16 |title=History of McDougall Centre {{!}} Alberta.ca |url=https://www.alberta.ca/mcdougall-centre-history |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.alberta.ca |language=en}}</ref> Early student government at the Normal School consisted of at least two committees, the Literary and Athletic Executives, composed of students elected to represent their peers in academic and extracurricular matters.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Souvenir |publisher=Calgary Normal School Yearbook |year=1911 |pages=29-33}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Brackett |first=Shawn |date=2016 |title=Student Life and Culture in Alberta's Normal Schools, 1930-1939. |url=https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/items/b0737a31-b15d-4564-8b2e-6455c770e55a |journal=Open Theses and Dissertations, University of Calgary. |via=PRISM Repository, University of Calgary}}</ref> By the 1920s, student representation was performed by one consolidated [[student council]]. Normal School students voted for representatives from their individual classes, as well as a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and an official school Pianist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SQ4V204?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP |title=The Comet |publisher=Calgary Normal School Yearbook |year=1924 |pages=13-16}}</ref> Elections occurred twice each academic year, one in fall and one in spring, owing to the duration of courses at the school.<ref name=":1" />
+Once Alberta became a province in 1905, the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta|Legislative Assembly]] decided that the city of [[Calgary]] would house Alberta’s first teacher training institute, the Calgary Normal School.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-16 |title=History of McDougall Centre {{!}} Alberta.ca |url=https://www.alberta.ca/mcdougall-centre-history |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.alberta.ca |language=en}}</ref> Early student government at the Normal School consisted of at least two committees, the Literary and Athletic Executives, composed of students elected to represent their peers in academic and extracurricular matters.<ref name=":28">{{Cite book |title=Souvenir |publisher=Calgary Normal School Yearbook |year=1911 |pages=29–33}}</ref><ref name=":29">{{Cite journal |last=Brackett |first=Shawn |date=2016 |title=Student Life and Culture in Alberta's Normal Schools, 1930-1939. |url=https://ucalgary.scholaris.ca/items/b0737a31-b15d-4564-8b2e-6455c770e55a |journal=Open Theses and Dissertations, University of Calgary. |via=PRISM Repository, University of Calgary}}</ref> By the 1920s, student representation was performed by one consolidated [[student council]]. Normal School students voted for representatives from their individual classes, as well as a President, Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer, and an official school Pianist.<ref name=":1">{{Cite book |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SQ4V204?&WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP |title=The Comet |publisher=Calgary Normal School Yearbook |year=1924 |pages=13–16}}</ref> Elections occurred twice each academic year, one in fall and one in spring, owing to the duration of courses at the school.<ref name=":1" />
 === 1945-1947: Becoming an undergraduate association ===
 [[File:Calgary Branch President UASU Vice President 1945-46.jpg|thumb|Yearbook photographs of John "Jack" Black, first President of the Calgary Students' Union (left) and Catherine "Kay" Pierce (right), Vice-President of the University of Alberta's Students' Union (1945).]]
-In 1945, all three Normal Schools in Alberta were absorbed by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faculty of Education |first=University of Alberta |date=28 June 2016 |title=Our History. |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/education/media-library/faculty/documents/about-us/our-history-faculty-of-education.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=UAlberta}}</ref> The Calgary school became formally known as its Faculty of Education in Calgary, and informally known as the Calgary Branch.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weston |first=Phyllis Ellen |title=The History of Education in Calgary |publisher=University of Alberta |year=1975 |pages=90}}</ref> Although the [[University of Alberta Students' Union|Students’ Union of the University of Alberta]] (UASU) initially assumed this meant it would take on the responsibility of providing for student representation at the Calgary Branch, students in Calgary protested the idea of surrendering their own student council and paying the UASU's students’ association fees.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2 November 1945 |title=Publicity Bureau for Alberta Varsity |url=https://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/digital/collection/herald/id/193471 |url-status=live |work=Lethbridge Herald |pages=14}}</ref> Such was the Branch’s desire to retain control over its own activities and [[yearbook]] that the UASU sent one of its Vice-Presidents, Catherine Pierce, from [[Edmonton]] to Calgary in November 1945.<ref name=":2" /> She negotiated with the council under John “Jack” Black, president of the Calgary Branch’s student council for its fall 1945 term.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold |publisher=University of Alberta Yearbook |year=1946 |pages=133}}</ref>
+In 1945, all three Normal Schools in Alberta were absorbed by the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Faculty of Education |first=University of Alberta |date=28 June 2016 |title=Our History. |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/education/media-library/faculty/documents/about-us/our-history-faculty-of-education.pdf |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=UAlberta}}</ref> The Calgary school became formally known as its Faculty of Education in Calgary, and informally known as the Calgary Branch.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Weston |first=Phyllis Ellen |title=The History of Education in Calgary |publisher=University of Alberta |year=1975 |pages=90}}</ref> Although the [[University of Alberta Students' Union|Students’ Union of the University of Alberta]] (UASU) initially assumed this meant it would take on the responsibility of providing for student representation at the Calgary Branch, students in Calgary protested the idea of surrendering their own student council and paying the UASU's students’ association fees.<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |date=2 November 1945 |title=Publicity Bureau for Alberta Varsity |url=https://digitallibrary.uleth.ca/digital/collection/herald/id/193471 |work=Lethbridge Herald |pages=14}}</ref> Such was the Branch’s desire to retain control over its own activities and [[yearbook]] that the UASU sent one of its Vice-Presidents, Catherine Pierce, from [[Edmonton]] to Calgary in November 1945.<ref name=":2" /> She negotiated with the council under John “Jack” Black, president of the Calgary Branch’s student council for its fall 1945 term.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold |publisher=University of Alberta Yearbook |year=1946 |pages=133}}</ref>
-A compromise was struck between UASU and Black’s administration. UASU refunded half of the fees paid by the Calgary students<ref name=":2" /> and the Calgary Branch retained its own Calgary Students' Union ('''CSU'''), though its governing council would have to operate within the bounds of UASU’s constitution.<ref name=":3" /> Furthermore, the Calgary campus would again publish an independent edition of its yearbook. As Black’s term marked a change in the purpose of student governance from providing for trainee teachers to providing for undergraduates, the modern-day Students’ Union considers Black to be its first President.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2016 |title=Students' Union History. |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SU-History-fact-sheet.pdf |url-status=live |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary.}}</ref>
+A compromise was struck between UASU and Black’s administration. UASU refunded half of the fees paid by the Calgary students<ref name=":2" /> and the Calgary Branch retained its own Calgary Students' Union ('''CSU'''), though its governing council would have to operate within the bounds of UASU’s constitution.<ref name=":3" /> Furthermore, the Calgary campus would again publish an independent edition of its yearbook. As Black’s term marked a change in the purpose of student governance from providing for trainee teachers to providing for undergraduates, the modern-day Students’ Union considers Black to be its first President.<ref>{{Cite web |year=2016 |title=Students' Union History. |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SU-History-fact-sheet.pdf |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary.}}</ref>
-The practice of electing a council twice a year persisted from Normal School tradition until 1947. Afterwards, students elected to the CSU’s council served one-year terms. The CSU’s council also changed its structure to align with UASU’s constitution.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education, Calgary Branch - '48. |year=1948 |pages=14-15}}</ref> The top four positions of its governing council were now President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The rest of the council consisted of the yearbook’s editor, a social convener, representatives for the Industrial Arts programs offered by the branch, and Literary and Athletic representatives. The Calgary Branch also imported the controversial [[Wuaneita Society|Wauneita Society]] from the UASU, a quasi-sorority women’s interest group.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 November 2015 |title=A Place for Women: The Wauneita Society at the University of Alberta. |url=https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2015/11/24/the-wauneita-society/ |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Edmonton City as Museum Project.}}</ref> This society selected its own president, who received a de facto seat on the Calgary Students’ Council.
+The practice of electing a council twice a year persisted from Normal School tradition until 1947. Afterwards, students elected to the CSU’s council served one-year terms. The CSU’s council also changed its structure to align with UASU’s constitution.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education, Calgary Branch - '48. |year=1948 |pages=14–15}}</ref> The top four positions of its governing council were now President, Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary. The rest of the council consisted of the yearbook’s editor, a social convener, representatives for the Industrial Arts programs offered by the branch, and Literary and Athletic representatives. The Calgary Branch also imported the controversial [[Wuaneita Society|Wauneita Society]] from the UASU, a quasi-sorority women’s interest group.<ref>{{Cite web |date=24 November 2015 |title=A Place for Women: The Wauneita Society at the University of Alberta. |url=https://citymuseumedmonton.ca/2015/11/24/the-wauneita-society/ |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=Edmonton City as Museum Project.}}</ref> This society selected its own president, who received a de facto seat on the Calgary Students’ Council.
-The council’s role evolved into chiefly overseeing the financial side of planning and maintaining student events or amenities. It therefore established subcommittees in 1948 to execute plans and policies. One such subcommittee was the University Athletic Board, which provided practical support such as equipment repairs to sports teams.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education, Calgary Branch - '48. |year=1948 |pages=63-67}}</ref> The council delegated professional development activities to the Educational Undergraduate Society.<ref name=":4" /> Some campus clubs endured from the Normal School, and some new ones began. There were clubs for students interested in [[Amateur theatre|theatre]], choir, debate, philosophy, and religion. Physical activities students could participate in included ping pong, basketball, bowling, hockey, cheerleading, and folk dancing. A club for veterans of the [[World War II|Second World War]] opened for staff and student alike.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education in Calgary - '49. |year=1949 |pages=72}}</ref> The CSU also oversaw the introduction of a campus newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Woods |first=Melanie |date=27 April 2017 |title=Furor Arma Ministrat: A select history of the Gauntlet |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2017/04/27/furor-arma-ministrat-a-select-history-of-the-gauntlet/ |url-status=live |work=The Gauntlet}}</ref>
+The council’s role evolved into chiefly overseeing the financial side of planning and maintaining student events or amenities. It therefore established subcommittees in 1948 to execute plans and policies. One such subcommittee was the University Athletic Board, which provided practical support such as equipment repairs to sports teams.<ref name=":4">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education, Calgary Branch - '48. |year=1948 |pages=63–67}}</ref> The council delegated professional development activities to the Educational Undergraduate Society.<ref name=":4" /> Some campus clubs endured from the Normal School, and some new ones began. There were clubs for students interested in [[Amateur theatre|theatre]], choir, debate, philosophy, and religion. Physical activities students could participate in included ping pong, basketball, bowling, hockey, cheerleading, and folk dancing. A club for veterans of the [[World War II|Second World War]] opened for staff and student alike.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education in Calgary - '49. |year=1949 |pages=72}}</ref> The CSU also oversaw the introduction of a campus newspaper.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Woods |first=Melanie |date=27 April 2017 |title=Furor Arma Ministrat: A select history of the Gauntlet |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2017/04/27/furor-arma-ministrat-a-select-history-of-the-gauntlet/ |work=The Gauntlet}}</ref>
 === 1948-1957: Initial steps towards autonomy ===
 Dr. Andrew Doucette became the Calgary Branch's director in 1947.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold - Faculty of Education, Calgary Branch - '48. |year=1948 |pages=16 |type=Yearbook.}}</ref> An engineering graduate from Nova Scotia, he had entered teaching and worked at the Calgary Normal School before enlisting in the [[Canadian Armed Forces]] in 1940.<ref>{{Cite news |date=7 February 1974 |title=Former university director's funeral in Calgary Friday. |work=Edmonton Journal |pages=22}}</ref> Having attained the rank of Major, he had recently returned from serving in Europe at the time of his appointment as director. That year also saw Frederick Cartwright elected president of the students' council. Cartwright, the son of two deaf parents, would go on to become Superintendent of the [[Alberta School for the Deaf]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 August 1967 |title=Fred Cartwright New Superinten't School For Deaf |work=The Vulcan Advocate |pages=1}}</ref> Doucette and Cartwright would work towards securing greater autonomy for the branch.
-In the summer of 1948, Cartwright’s administration requested that changes be made to the UASU’s constitution, so that the Calgary branch could have its own Committee on Student Affairs.<ref name=":5">{{Cite report |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HXTI?WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP&FR_=1&W=1920&H=911 |title=Report on Student Affairs, Calgary Branch of University of Alberta for the 1948-49 Session. |last=Cartwright |first=Frederick |last2=Doucette |first2=Andrew |date=22 March 1949 |publisher=Committee on Students' Affairs, University of Alberta. |access-date=22 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> This Edmonton-based committee, made of delegates from the UASU and University of Alberta leadership, supervised matters of student discipline and welfare across all of the University's campuses.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=University of Alberta Calendar 2003/04 - General Information. |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/registrar/media-library/pdfcal/03-04calendarpdf/gen_info.pdf |url-status=live |website=UAlberta. |page=1}}</ref> Despite the rocky start in 1945, relations between the CSU and UASU were good enough that the UASU supported the proposal,<ref>{{Cite report |title=Report of the Board of Governors and the President of the University of Alberta 1949-1950. |date=30 November 1950 |page=51}}</ref> and the University's Board of Governors ratified the changes in 1949.<ref name=":5" /> Thus, in an early step towards self-governance, the Calgary Branch established its own student affairs committee.
+In the summer of 1948, Cartwright’s administration requested that changes be made to the UASU’s constitution, so that the Calgary branch could have its own Committee on Student Affairs.<ref name=":5">{{Cite report |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HXTI?WS=SearchResults&Flat=FP&FR_=1&W=1920&H=911 |title=Report on Student Affairs, Calgary Branch of University of Alberta for the 1948-49 Session. |last1=Cartwright |first1=Frederick |last2=Doucette |first2=Andrew |date=22 March 1949 |publisher=Committee on Students' Affairs, University of Alberta. |access-date=22 May 2025 |url-status=live}}</ref> This Edmonton-based committee, made of delegates from the UASU and University of Alberta leadership, supervised matters of student discipline and welfare across all of the University's campuses.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2003 |title=University of Alberta Calendar 2003/04 - General Information. |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/registrar/media-library/pdfcal/03-04calendarpdf/gen_info.pdf |website=UAlberta. |page=1}}</ref> Despite the rocky start in 1945, relations between the CSU and UASU were good enough that the UASU supported the proposal,<ref>{{Cite report |title=Report of the Board of Governors and the President of the University of Alberta 1949-1950. |date=30 November 1950 |page=51}}</ref> and the University's Board of Governors ratified the changes in 1949.<ref name=":5" /> Thus, in an early step towards self-governance, the Calgary Branch established its own student affairs committee.
-In the winter of 1948, Doucette met with the Calgary University Committee, a pressure group of Calgarians who wanted to see an autonomous university in their city.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rasporich |first=A. W. |date=2006 |title=A Community in Search of a University: The University of Calgary's Pre-History, 1912-66. |journal=Alberta History |volume=54 |issue=3}}</ref> Doucette encouraged them by sharing what he believed the branch would need in order to introduce university-level Arts and Science programs, which would expand the Branch from being a single Faculty of Education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doucette |first=Andrew |date=5 November 1948 |title=Address to Calgary University Committee by Mr A. Doucette, Calgary Branch, University of Alberta. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HF4K |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections}}</ref>
+In the winter of 1948, Doucette met with the Calgary University Committee, a pressure group of Calgarians who wanted to see an autonomous university in their city.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rasporich |first=A. W. |date=2006 |title=A Community in Search of a University: The University of Calgary's Pre-History, 1912-66. |journal=Alberta History |volume=54 |issue=3}}</ref> Doucette encouraged them by sharing what he believed the branch would need in order to introduce university-level Arts and Science programs, which would expand the Branch from being a single Faculty of Education.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Doucette |first=Andrew |date=5 November 1948 |title=Address to Calgary University Committee by Mr A. Doucette, Calgary Branch, University of Alberta. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HF4K |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections}}</ref>
-Following these developments, Doucette and Cartwright travelled to the University of Alberta's main campus together in early 1949 to report on the Branch’s progress.<ref name=":5" /> A University of Calgary institutional report would later reflect on Doucette and Cartwright’s work as having impressed authorities in Edmonton enough that they began giving serious consideration to calls by Calgary community activists for the city’s Branch to house multiple Faculties.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=1976 |title=Report 1322: The Story of the University of Calgary. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1FUPL9TK |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |publisher=University of Calgary |page=63}}</ref> Indeed, between 1952 and 1957, the Calgary Branch expanded to offer undergraduate programs in [[University of Calgary Faculty of Arts|Arts]], Science, Engineering, and Physical Education.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=University of Calgary Calendar 2009-2010 - Historical Highlights. |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/archives/2009/about-historical-highlights.html |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> Having become a university branch rather than a single faculty of education, the school was renamed to the University of Alberta in Calgary (UAC) in 1957.<ref name=":7" />
+Following these developments, Doucette and Cartwright travelled to the University of Alberta's main campus together in early 1949 to report on the Branch’s progress.<ref name=":5" /> A University of Calgary institutional report would later reflect on Doucette and Cartwright’s work as having impressed authorities in Edmonton enough that they began giving serious consideration to calls by Calgary community activists for the city’s Branch to house multiple Faculties.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=1976 |title=Report 1322: The Story of the University of Calgary. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1FUPL9TK |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |publisher=University of Calgary |page=63}}</ref> Indeed, between 1952 and 1957, the Calgary Branch expanded to offer undergraduate programs in [[University of Calgary Faculty of Arts|Arts]], Science, Engineering, and Physical Education.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2009 |title=University of Calgary Calendar 2009-2010 - Historical Highlights. |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/archives/2009/about-historical-highlights.html |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> Having become a university branch rather than a single faculty of education, the school was renamed to the University of Alberta in Calgary (UAC) in 1957.<ref name=":7" />
 === 1958-1966: Attaining autonomy ===
 The provincial government, finding that the UAC had outgrown the building it shared with the [[Provincial Institute of Technology and Art]], ordered construction of a new campus in 1958.<ref name=":8">{{Cite book |last=Smith |first=Donald |title=Calgary's Grand Story |date=1 September 2005 |publisher=University of Calgary Press |isbn=978-1552381748 |pages=258}}</ref> UAC moved to its new campus—the present-day site of the University of Calgary—in 1960.<ref name=":8" /> The CSU moved into the basement of the Arts building, accompanied by offices for the yearbook, campus newspaper, and a bookstore.<ref name=":6" /> The construction of an independent campus was the realization of a dream for Andrew Doucette, who was now experiencing ill health.<ref name=":9">{{Cite youtube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9oItsQZkzc&ab_channel=UniversityofCalgary |title=Frank Doucette, Son of Andrew Doucette - UCalgary50 |date=6 March 2017 |type=Video |publisher=University of Calgary}}</ref> Forced to scale back his duties, he was disappointed that he could not serve as the branch’s first president at its new location, though he remained with the institution until 1961 to acclimate incoming president Malcolm Taylor.<ref name=":9" /> The CSU dedicated the first edition of the yearbook published on the new campus to Doucette.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tallystick 1961 |date=1961 |publisher=Students' Union, University of Calgary |pages=6 |type=Yearbook}}</ref>
-A Committee on Student Affairs was also established for the Calgary campus that year. [[Walter H. Johns|Walter Johns]], President of the University of Alberta, described the student body as “increasingly competent and responsible” in their ability to conduct their own affairs.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tallystick |date=1962 |publisher=Students' Union, Calgary. |publication-date=1962 |pages=13}}</ref> Indeed, the composition of the Calgary Students’ Union’s governing council evolved to represent the various faculties now present on campus. Students continued to elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, though they now voted for Faculty Representatives for Engineering, Commerce, and Education; Arts and Science students were represented by one Faculty Representative.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |title=Tallystick |date=1962 |publisher=Students' Union, Calgary |year=1962 |pages=98-99}}</ref> Other positions included coordinators responsible for overseeing cultural matters, athletics, women’s affairs, and public relations.<ref name=":10" /> Finally, students elected a representative of the Calgary campus for the [[National Federation of Canadian University Students]].
+A Committee on Student Affairs was also established for the Calgary campus that year. [[Walter H. Johns|Walter Johns]], President of the University of Alberta, described the student body as “increasingly competent and responsible” in their ability to conduct their own affairs.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tallystick |date=1962 |publisher=Students' Union, Calgary. |publication-date=1962 |pages=13}}</ref> Indeed, the composition of the Calgary Students’ Union’s governing council evolved to represent the various faculties now present on campus. Students continued to elect a President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer, though they now voted for Faculty Representatives for Engineering, Commerce, and Education; Arts and Science students were represented by one Faculty Representative.<ref name=":10">{{Cite book |title=Tallystick |publisher=Students' Union, Calgary |year=1962 |pages=98–99}}</ref> Other positions included coordinators responsible for overseeing cultural matters, athletics, women’s affairs, and public relations.<ref name=":10" /> Finally, students elected a representative of the Calgary campus for the [[National Federation of Canadian University Students]].
-Although the appetite for an independent University remained, the CSU did not actively pursue the matter until October 1963, when Walter Johns declared that an autonomous University of Calgary would be “useless and uncalled for.”<ref name=":11">{{Cite news |date=1 November 1963 |title=UAC Staff Criticizes Attack from Dr. Johns. |work=Calgary Herald |pages=1}}</ref> This made the front page of the [[Calgary Herald]], as Johns' statement attracted the ire of students and staff alike at the Calgary campus.<ref name=":11" /> The CSU held a referendum on November 22, 1963, asking students to vote on whether they wished for the Calgary branch to achieve “complete academic and administrative autonomy” from the University of Alberta; 78.5% voted yes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 1963 |title=Students' Council to Back Autonomy. |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> Johns, in turn, blamed the conduct of Calgarians for causing “bitterness and bad feeling on both sides which should not have occurred.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Status of the Calgary Campus. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54H0RP |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |type=Speech by U of A President Walter Johns clearing up misconceptions about UAC autonomy from the perspective of the Board of Governors.}}</ref> The rising tension between Calgary and Edmonton spooked some student councillors, who feared the University of Alberta would retaliate by withholding their degrees.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 December 1963 |title=Council Avoids Autonomy Issue |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> The CSU nonetheless continued supporting independence efforts in 1964, selling stickers and badges emblazoned with slogans in favour of autonomy to fund its work.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 January 1964 |title=Cover Image Caption. |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> By one account, these made their way on to Johns’ car in Edmonton.<ref name=":6" />
+Although the appetite for an independent University remained, the CSU did not actively pursue the matter until October 1963, when Walter Johns declared that an autonomous University of Calgary would be “useless and uncalled for.”<ref name=":11">{{Cite news |date=1 November 1963 |title=UAC Staff Criticizes Attack from Dr. Johns. |work=Calgary Herald |pages=1}}</ref> This made the front page of the [[Calgary Herald]], as Johns' statement attracted the ire of students and staff alike at the Calgary campus.<ref name=":11" /> The CSU held a referendum on November 22, 1963, asking students to vote on whether they wished for the Calgary branch to achieve “complete academic and administrative autonomy” from the University of Alberta; 78.5% voted yes.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 November 1963 |title=Students' Council to Back Autonomy. |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> Johns, in turn, blamed the conduct of Calgarians for causing “bitterness and bad feeling on both sides which should not have occurred.”<ref>{{Cite web |title=Status of the Calgary Campus. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54H0RP |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |type=Speech by U of A President Walter Johns clearing up misconceptions about UAC autonomy from the perspective of the Board of Governors.}}</ref> The rising tension between Calgary and Edmonton spooked some student councillors, who feared the University of Alberta would retaliate by withholding their degrees.<ref>{{Cite news |date=6 December 1963 |title=Council Avoids Autonomy Issue |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> The CSU nonetheless continued supporting independence efforts in 1964, selling stickers and badges emblazoned with slogans in favour of autonomy to fund its work.<ref>{{Cite news |date=10 January 1964 |title=Cover Image Caption. |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1}}</ref> By one account, these made their way on to Johns’ car in Edmonton.<ref name=":6" />
-The University of Alberta’s Board of Governors ultimately responded by granting the Calgary branch two independent governance bodies in late 1964. The branch would receive its own General Faculties Council, responsible for academic affairs and the supervision of student affairs; and its own Senate, responsible for external relations.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Lampard |first=Robert |title=Creating the Future of Health: The History of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, 1967-2012 |last2=Hogan |first2=David |last3=Stahnisch |first3=Frank |last4=R. Wright Jr. |first4=James |collaboration= |date=1 February 2021 |publisher=University of Calgary Press |pages=55}}</ref> This was still insufficient to pacify the Calgary University Committee, which petitioned the province to revisit the idea of granting the Calgary campus independence.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 September 1964 |title=UAC Autonomy |work=Calgary Herald |pages=4}}</ref> The University of Alberta subsequently recommended a full separation between both institutions,<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 March 1966 |title=Bill sets up separate universities |work=The Leader Post |pages=4}}</ref> prompting the Government of Alberta to introduce a bill to that end in 1966.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 April 1966 |title=UAC Becomes University of Calgary |work=Calgary Herald |pages=54}}</ref> On April 15, 1966, royal assent was given to the Universities Act. The University of Calgary became an independent institution, and the Students’ Union, University of Calgary was incorporated as its official undergraduate study body.<ref name=":0" />
+The University of Alberta’s Board of Governors ultimately responded by granting the Calgary branch two independent governance bodies in late 1964. The branch would receive its own General Faculties Council, responsible for academic affairs and the supervision of student affairs; and its own Senate, responsible for external relations.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Lampard |first1=Robert |title=Creating the Future of Health: The History of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary, 1967-2012 |last2=Hogan |first2=David |last3=Stahnisch |first3=Frank |last4=R. Wright Jr. |first4=James |collaboration= |date=1 February 2021 |publisher=University of Calgary Press |pages=55}}</ref> This was still insufficient to pacify the Calgary University Committee, which petitioned the province to revisit the idea of granting the Calgary campus independence.<ref>{{Cite news |date=8 September 1964 |title=UAC Autonomy |work=Calgary Herald |pages=4}}</ref> The University of Alberta subsequently recommended a full separation between both institutions,<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 March 1966 |title=Bill sets up separate universities |work=The Leader Post |pages=4}}</ref> prompting the Government of Alberta to introduce a bill to that end in 1966.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 April 1966 |title=UAC Becomes University of Calgary |work=Calgary Herald |pages=54}}</ref> On April 15, 1966, royal assent was given to the Universities Act. The University of Calgary became an independent institution, and the Students’ Union, University of Calgary was incorporated as its official undergraduate study body.<ref name=":0" />
 == Finances ==
-The UCSU derives 10% of its operating [[revenue]] from student fees and 90% from its own commercial activity.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=1 August 2024 |title=2024 Report to the Community |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SU-RtoC-2023-24.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary |page=8-9}}</ref> This allows UCSU to charge one of the lowest students’ association fees in Canada as of 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Association Fees Across Canada |url=https://www2.su.ualberta.ca/media/uploads/46/StudentAssocFeesAcrossCanada%20-%20DRAFT%20Oct%2030%202020.pdf |url-status=live |website=Students' Union, University of Alberta |page=3}}</ref> at $65 per academic year for an average full-time undergraduate.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Finances and Fees |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/about/more/financial/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU has traditionally put any and all fee increases to a vote, even when continuing to offer services without an increase would mean operating at a loss, such as the referendum on increasing its Health and Dental Plan in 2022.<ref name=":14">{{Cite news |last=Ukpong |first=Enobong |date=14 February 2022 |title=SLC speaks about upcoming referendum on health and dental plan in SU general election |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2022/02/14/slc-speaks-about-upcoming-referendum-on-health-and-dental-plan-in-su-general-election/ |url-status=live |work=The Gauntlet}}</ref> As such, the UCSU’s core operating student fee has not increased since 1995.<ref name=":12" /> Annual [[Financial audit|financial audits]] are available on its website.<ref name=":13" />
+The UCSU derives 10% of its operating [[revenue]] from student fees and 90% from its own commercial activity.<ref name=":12">{{Cite web |date=1 August 2024 |title=2024 Report to the Community |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/SU-RtoC-2023-24.pdf |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary |pages=8–9}}</ref> This allows UCSU to charge one of the lowest students’ association fees in Canada as of 2019,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Association Fees Across Canada |url=https://www2.su.ualberta.ca/media/uploads/46/StudentAssocFeesAcrossCanada%20-%20DRAFT%20Oct%2030%202020.pdf |website=Students' Union, University of Alberta |page=3}}</ref> at $65 per academic year for an average full-time undergraduate.<ref name=":13">{{Cite web |title=Finances and Fees |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/about/more/financial/ |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU has traditionally put any and all fee increases to a vote, even when continuing to offer services without an increase would mean operating at a loss, such as the referendum on increasing its Health and Dental Plan in 2022.<ref name=":14">{{Cite news |last=Ukpong |first=Enobong |date=14 February 2022 |title=SLC speaks about upcoming referendum on health and dental plan in SU general election |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2022/02/14/slc-speaks-about-upcoming-referendum-on-health-and-dental-plan-in-su-general-election/ |work=The Gauntlet}}</ref> As such, the UCSU’s core operating student fee has not increased since 1995.<ref name=":12" /> Annual [[financial audit]]s are available on its website.<ref name=":13" />
 == MacEwan Hall ==
-The UCSU's base of operations is MacEwan Hall, located on the main campus of the University of Calgary. The building consists of two parts: the original MacEwan Hall, which opened in 1967,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Livabl |date=2016-05-12 |title=These 13 photos show how the University of Calgary has changed in 50 years |url=https://www.livabl.com/articles/news/university-of-calgary |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Livabl |language=en-US}}</ref> and the MacEwan Student Centre, an extension to the original hall that opened in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 January 1988 |title=MacEwan Student Centre Grand Opening |work=Calgary Herald |pages=22}}</ref> Colloquially, the building is known on campus and in Calgary as 'Mac Hall.'<ref>{{Cite web |last=avenuecalgary |date=2018-09-04 |title=Where to See a Show at Post-Secondary Institutions in Calgary |url=https://www.avenuecalgary.com/things-to-do/where-to-see-a-show-at-mount-royal-university-sait-university-of-calgary/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Avenue Calgary |language=en-CA}}</ref> Two subsidiaries of the UCSU manage concert bookings and events using spaces within the Hall: the MacEwan Conference and Event Centre,<ref>{{Cite web |title=MCEC – MacEwan Conference and Event Centre |url=https://www.macewancentre.com/ |access-date=2025-05-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> and Mac Hall Concerts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - MacEwan Concerts |url=https://www.machallconcerts.com/ |access-date=2025-05-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> The first act to perform at MacEwan Hall was [[Ian & Sylvia]] on October 13, 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=40 Years of Autonomy, 1966-2006 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SJG3NY0 |url-status=live |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |page=4}}</ref>
+The UCSU's base of operations is MacEwan Hall, located on the main campus of the University of Calgary. The building consists of two parts: the original MacEwan Hall, which opened in 1967,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Livabl |date=2016-05-12 |title=These 13 photos show how the University of Calgary has changed in 50 years |url=https://www.livabl.com/articles/news/university-of-calgary |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Livabl |language=en-US}}</ref> and the MacEwan Student Centre, an extension to the original hall that opened in 1988.<ref>{{Cite news |date=23 January 1988 |title=MacEwan Student Centre Grand Opening |work=Calgary Herald |pages=22}}</ref> Colloquially, the building is known on campus and in Calgary as 'Mac Hall.'<ref>{{Cite web |last=avenuecalgary |date=2018-09-04 |title=Where to See a Show at Post-Secondary Institutions in Calgary |url=https://www.avenuecalgary.com/things-to-do/where-to-see-a-show-at-mount-royal-university-sait-university-of-calgary/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Avenue Calgary |language=en-CA}}</ref> Two subsidiaries of the UCSU manage concert bookings and events using spaces within the Hall: the MacEwan Conference and Event Centre,<ref>{{Cite web |title=MCEC – MacEwan Conference and Event Centre |url=https://www.macewancentre.com/ |access-date=2025-05-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> and Mac Hall Concerts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Home - MacEwan Concerts |url=https://www.machallconcerts.com/ |access-date=2025-05-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> The first act to perform at MacEwan Hall was [[Ian & Sylvia]] on October 13, 1967.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2006 |title=40 Years of Autonomy, 1966-2006 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SJG3NY0 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections |page=4}}</ref>
 === 1906-1961: Before MacEwan Hall ===
-Until 1960, the Calgary Branch shared a campus with the [[Provincial Institute of Technology and Art|Provincial Institute of Technology and Arts]]. PITA itself was the precursor to the [[Southern Alberta Institute of Technology]] (SAIT) and the [[Alberta University of the Arts]], and the building PITA shared with the Calgary Branch is still in use today as SAIT's Heritage Hall.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SAIT |title=Heritage Hall stands the test of time |url=https://www.sait.ca/link/stories/2022/02/heritage-hall-stands |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.sait.ca |language=en}}</ref> Initially, the CSU operated out of one room<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |date=5 November 1948 |title=Address to Calgary University Committee by Mr. A. Doucette, Calgary Branch, University of Alberta, November 5, 1948 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HF4K |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections}}</ref> and shared this space with student clubs, whose members often left furniture owned by the CSU strewn across campus.<ref name=":23">{{Cite news |date=1 January 1958 |title=Come to the S. U. Building |work=Cal-Var |volume=4 |issue=4}}</ref>
+Until 1960, the Calgary Branch shared a campus with the [[Provincial Institute of Technology and Art]]s. PITA itself was the precursor to the [[Southern Alberta Institute of Technology]] (SAIT) and the [[Alberta University of the Arts]], and the building PITA shared with the Calgary Branch is still in use today as SAIT's Heritage Hall.<ref>{{Cite web |last=SAIT |title=Heritage Hall stands the test of time |url=https://www.sait.ca/link/stories/2022/02/heritage-hall-stands |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.sait.ca |language=en}}</ref> Initially, the CSU operated out of one room<ref name=":22">{{Cite web |date=5 November 1948 |title=Address to Calgary University Committee by Mr. A. Doucette, Calgary Branch, University of Alberta, November 5, 1948 |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1S54HF4K |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary Digital Collections}}</ref> and shared this space with student clubs, whose members often left furniture owned by the CSU strewn across campus.<ref name=":23">{{Cite news |date=1 January 1953 |title=Come to the S. U. Building |work=Cal-Var |volume=4 |issue=4}}</ref>
-Andrew Doucette sympathized with students for lacking designated space,<ref name=":22" /> so in 1951, once the Branch had been granted its own Committee on Student Affairs, he began working with the CSU to find a more appropriate space for its operations.<ref name=":23" /> On the campus’s grounds was a hut that had been used by army medics [[World War II|during the war]]. Doucette successfully won permission from the University of Alberta to turn control of the building over to the CSU.<ref name=":5" /> Students renovated the building themselves and acquired all its furniture, except for a rug that Doucette donated to the building personally.<ref name=":23" /> Throughout the building’s lifetime, students continued to assume responsibility for its maintenance.<ref name=":24">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold University of Alberta in Calgary 1957 |publisher=UAC Yearbooks |publication-date=1957 |pages=}}</ref> The new building provided officers for the campus newspaper, clubs, council executives, and the yearbook team. It also contained [[Debate chamber|council meeting chambers]] and a games room.<ref name=":24" />
+Andrew Doucette sympathized with students for lacking designated space,<ref name=":22" /> so in 1951, once the Branch had been granted its own Committee on Student Affairs, he began working with the CSU to find a more appropriate space for its operations.<ref name=":23" /> On the campus’s grounds was a hut that had been used by army medics [[World War II|during the war]]. Doucette successfully won permission from the University of Alberta to turn control of the building over to the CSU.<ref name=":5" /> Students renovated the building themselves and acquired all its furniture, except for a rug that Doucette donated to the building personally.<ref name=":23" /> Throughout the building’s lifetime, students continued to assume responsibility for its maintenance.<ref name=":24">{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold University of Alberta in Calgary 1957 |publisher=UAC Yearbooks |publication-date=1957 |pages=}}</ref> The new building provided offices for the campus newspaper, clubs, council executives, and the yearbook team. It also contained [[Debate chamber|council meeting chambers]] and a games room.<ref name=":24" />
 === 1962-1967: Building MacEwan Hall ===
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 === 1968-1988: Building MacEwan Student Centre ===
-By 1980, enrolment at the University of Calgary had broadly increased year on year to the point that MacEwan Hall was no longer large enough to accommodate them. Students were again asked by the UCSU if they would pay a temporary building fee, this time to facilitate an expansion of MacEwan Hall; the referendum passed.<ref name=":26">{{Cite news |date=January 1988 |title=MacEwan Student Centre: The Little Hall That Grew. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SDX83FD |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=Students' Union, University of Calgary.}}</ref>
+By 1980, enrolment at the University of Calgary had broadly increased year on year to the point that MacEwan Hall was no longer large enough to accommodate them. Students were again asked by the UCSU if they would pay a temporary building fee, this time to facilitate an expansion of MacEwan Hall; the referendum passed.<ref name=":26">{{Cite news |date=January 1988 |title=MacEwan Student Centre: The Little Hall That Grew. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1SDX83FD |access-date=22 May 2025 |work=Students' Union, University of Calgary.}}</ref>
-Successive UCSU Presidents oversaw construction of the expansion, MacEwan Student Centre, including [[Myles McDougall]]. McDougall, who would later become Alberta's [[Alberta Advanced Education|Minister for Advanced Education]] in 2025, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony when construction began in 1987.<ref name=":26" /> The expansion opened in 1988, adding 16,500 square metres of space to MacEwan Hall. It contained facilities such as a counselling clinic, a health centre, study spaces, club spaces, [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Native]] Student Services, the campus bookstore, and a ten-outlet food court.<ref name=":26" />
+Successive UCSU Presidents oversaw construction of the expansion, MacEwan Student Centre, including [[Myles McDougall]]. McDougall, who would later become Alberta's [[Alberta Advanced Education|Minister for Advanced Education]] in 2025, participated in the groundbreaking ceremony when construction began in 1985.<ref name=":26" /> The expansion opened in 1988, adding 16,500 square metres of space to MacEwan Hall. It contained facilities such as a counselling clinic, a health centre, study spaces, club spaces, [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Native]] Student Services, the campus bookstore, and a ten-outlet food court.<ref name=":26" />
 == Services and programming ==
 === Student financial assistance ===
-The UCSU’s first scholarship offering was established in 1969, when incoming university president [[Alfred Carrothers]] declined a small monetary welcome gift from the UCSU. After Carrothers instead asked that the UCSU put the money to good use, the UCSU established the A.W.R. Carrothers Scholarship, which it continues to offer annually.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A.W.R. Carrothers Scholarship |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/registrar/awards/awr-carrothers-scholarship |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU’s second ongoing financial award, the Ray Alward Memorial Bursary, was introduced a decade later.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ray Alward Memorial Bursary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/registrar/awards/ray-alward-memorial-bursary |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> Ray Alward was a long-serving caretaker of MacEwan Hall who was popular among students.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 March 1977 |title=Winding Up. |work=Calgary Herald |pages=95}}</ref>
-As of 2025, the UCSU offers a range of merit-based and needs-based scholarships and bursaries for the University of Calgary’s undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scholarships and Awards |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/academic-awards/ |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> Students can also apply for funding to support their academic and professional development. These funds include conference and research funding, as well as employment subsidies and funding to support student-led sustainability efforts.
+==== Awards and bursaries ====
+The UCSU’s first scholarship was established in 1969, after incoming university president [[Alfred Carrothers]] declined a monetary welcome gift from the UCSU and instead asked that the money be put to good use. The UCSU established the A.W.R. Carrothers Scholarship, which it continues to offer annually.<ref name=":6" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=A.W.R. Carrothers Scholarship |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/registrar/awards/awr-carrothers-scholarship |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> The UCSU’s second ongoing financial award, the Ray Alward Memorial Bursary, was introduced a decade later,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ray Alward Memorial Bursary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/registrar/awards/ray-alward-memorial-bursary |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=University of Calgary}}</ref> in honour of MacEwan Hall's long-serving caretaker who was popular among students.<ref>{{Cite news |date=16 March 1977 |title=Winding Up. |work=Calgary Herald |pages=95}}</ref>
-=== Undergraduate research ===
+As of 2025, the UCSU offers a range of merit-based and needs-based scholarships and bursaries for the University of Calgary’s undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Scholarships and Awards |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/academic-awards/ |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> Students can also apply for funding to support their academic and professional development. These funds include conference and research funding,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=SU Conference Funding – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/travel-conference-funding/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> as well as employment subsidies<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=SUPER Work – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/super-work/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> and funding to support student-led sustainability efforts.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Sustainability Fund – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/sustainability-fund/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
-Every year since 2006, undergraduates across all faculties are invited to submit their research for inclusion in the UCSU’s Undergraduate Research Symposium.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Memon |first=Ashar |date=2017-10-18 |title=Applications open as SU prepares for Undergraduate Research Symposium |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2017/10/18/applications-open-as-su-prepares-for-undergraduate-research-symposium/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> Researchers whose submissions are selected for recognition are invited to a presentation event where they can showcase their research and receive a monetary award.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016 |title=Report to the Community 2015-2016 |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTTC-2015-16.pdf |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref>
+==== Volunteer tax clinic ====
+The SU oversees an annual tax filing clinic, staff by student volunteers who are trained to Canada Revenue Agency standards.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Volunteer Tax Program, UCalgary Students' Union {{!}} Women's Resource Centre {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/student-services/womens-centre/resources/womens-resource-database/volunteer-tax-program-su |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref> Low-income members of the campus' community, including students, staff and faculty, may take advantage of free tax filing services.<ref name=":30">{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=Volunteer Tax Program – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-programs/volunteer-tax-program/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> The clinic, first established in 2000, generally files over 1,000 returns annually.<ref name=":30" />
 === Health services ===
 ==== Health plan ====
-The UCSU administers a health and dental plan for undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-28 |title=Health and Dental – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/health-dental/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> Health insurance was first introduced in the 1988-89 academic year by the 46<sup>th</sup> Students’ Legislative Council,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tally Stick '89 |publisher=Students' Union, University of Calgary |year=1989 |pages=59}}</ref> and dental coverage was added in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-09-13 |title=Notice of Plebiscite – By-Election 2021 – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/2021/notice-of-plebiscite-by-election-2021/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> The cost of these plans combined did not increase between 1993 and 2021.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-03-10 |title=2022 SU General Election – The Results Are In – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/2022/2022-su-general-election-the-results-are-in/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> Students were asked to vote on whether they would accept an increase to the cost of their health plan in 2022 in order to increase coverage; the majority voted no.<ref name=":15" /> As of 2022, the UCSU’s student health and dental plan remains one of the cheapest in Canada.<ref name=":14" />
+The UCSU administers a health and dental plan for undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-04-28 |title=Health and Dental – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/health-dental/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> Health insurance was first introduced in the 1988-89 academic year by the 46th Students’ Legislative Council,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tally Stick '89 |publisher=Students' Union, University of Calgary |year=1989 |pages=59}}</ref> and dental coverage was added in 1991.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2021-09-13 |title=Notice of Plebiscite – By-Election 2021 – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/2021/notice-of-plebiscite-by-election-2021/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> The cost of these plans combined did not increase between 1993 and 2021.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2022-03-10 |title=2022 SU General Election – The Results Are In – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/2022/2022-su-general-election-the-results-are-in/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref> Students were asked to vote on whether they would accept an increase to the cost of their health plan in 2022 in order to increase coverage; the majority voted no.<ref name=":15" /> As of 2022, the UCSU’s student health and dental plan remains one of the cheapest in Canada.<ref name=":14" />
 ==== On-campus health ====
 The UCSU began exploring ways to introduce on-campus mental health provision for students on campus in 1970. Financial constraints limited these early efforts to the funding of a counselling hotline, the Crisis Centre.<ref name=":16">{{Cite news |date=8 September 1971 |title=Bug Desk opens drop-in-centre |work=The Gauntlet |pages=3}}</ref> The hotline was primarily staffed by volunteers, and fielded inquiries from students seeking help on various issues, ranging from loneliness to academic stress.<ref name=":16" />
 In 2008, the UCSU funded the development of the SU Wellness Centre to provide health services on-campus.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoskins |first=Veronia |date=14 March 2008 |title=Quality Money hits $6.5 million |work=On Campus |pages=2 |volume=5 |issue=10}}</ref> Located within the UCSU’s building, this Centre is staffed by medical and mental health professionals who provide care to members of the University’s community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Wellness Services {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://ucalgary.ca/wellness-services/home |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref> In 2016, provincial funding facilitated the hiring of more social workers and psychologists at the Centre to meet growing demand for mental health support in particular.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strasser |first=Scott |date=2016-09-28 |title=SU Wellness Centre increases mental health resources available on campus |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2016/09/27/su-wellness-centre-increases-mental-health-resources-available-on-campus/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref>
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 The UCSU can trace its history of participating in charitable efforts to combat [[Food security|food insecurity]] since its early incarnation under the Calgary Normal School. The Students’ Council organized winter fundraising galas for the benefit of the Sunshine Society,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Calgary Normal School Yearbook 1930-1931 |date=1931 |publisher=Calgary Normal School Yearbook Committee |trans-title=37}}</ref> a philanthropic arm of the Calgary Herald that provided necessities to low-income families in the city.<ref>{{Cite news |date=19 December 1930 |title=Sunshine Society Appeals for Aid |work=The Advance, Elnora |pages=1}}</ref>
-In 1993, a student club, the Students’ Food Action Committee, began raising awareness of the issue of food insecurity on campus. The UCSU coordinated a partnership with the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank, thus maintaining its own food bank for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=Ron |date=18 December 1993 |title=Bumper Crop |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> In its first year of operation, the bank was utilized by 170 students and their relatives, including 60 children.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dempster |first=Lisa |date=12 August 1994 |title=Food bank feeds U of C students |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> In 1996, the UCSU began managing the food bank independently of the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marshall |first=Andy |date=6 April 1996 |title=Students raise funds for charity coffers |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> which it continues to operate as of May 2025.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-10 |title=Campus Food Bank – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/food-bank/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+In 1993, a student club, the Students’ Food Action Committee, began raising awareness of the issue of food insecurity on campus. The UCSU coordinated a partnership with the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank, thus maintaining its own food bank for the first time.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=Ron |date=18 December 1993 |title=Bumper Crop |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> In its first year of operation, the bank was utilized by 170 students and their relatives, including 60 children.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dempster |first=Lisa |date=12 August 1994 |title=Food bank feeds U of C students |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> In 1996, the UCSU began managing the food bank independently of the Calgary Interfaith Food Bank,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Marshall |first=Andy |date=6 April 1996 |title=Students raise funds for charity coffers |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref> which it continues to operate as of May 2025.<ref name="su.ucalgary.ca">{{Cite web |date=2025-06-10 |title=Campus Food Bank – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/food-bank/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
-Since 2021, the SU Campus Food Bank has seen an uptick in demand. The UCSU completed 227 requests for food hampers in the academic year of 2021-22, and 526 for the academic year of 2022-23.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 October 2023 |title=Calgarians 'can't make ends meet' as national food bank use hits highest recorded level |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-food-bank-affordability-1.7009455 |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref> In August 2024, the UCSU reported that usage for the 2024-25 academic year was on track to surpass previous records.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 August 2024 |title=Calgary universities seeing increased demand for food banks |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/food-security-cost-of-living-calgary-1.7299757 |url-status=live |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref> Also in late 2024, the UCSU began offering an affordable meal program through its on-campus restaurant, The Den, in a bid to address food insecurity on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 January 2025 |title=University of Calgary Students' Union launches affordable meal program for students |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6588909 |url-status=live |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref>
+Since 2021, the SU Campus Food Bank has seen an uptick in demand. The UCSU completed 227 requests for food hampers in the academic year of 2021-22, and 526 for the academic year of 2022-23.<ref>{{Cite web |date=26 October 2023 |title=Calgarians 'can't make ends meet' as national food bank use hits highest recorded level |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-food-bank-affordability-1.7009455 |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref> In August 2024, the UCSU reported that usage for the 2024-25 academic year was on track to surpass previous records.<ref>{{Cite web |date=20 August 2024 |title=Calgary universities seeing increased demand for food banks |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/food-security-cost-of-living-calgary-1.7299757 |access-date=23 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref> Also in late 2024, the UCSU began offering an affordable meal program through its on-campus restaurant, The Den, in a bid to address food insecurity on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=7 January 2025 |title=University of Calgary Students' Union launches affordable meal program for students |url=https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6588909 |access-date=22 May 2025 |website=CBC News}}</ref>
-Every October, the SU Campus Food Bank maintains an annual food drive, run in partnership with the University of Calgary. Students and faculty alike are encouraged to form teams and compete to collect the most donations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Acosta |first=Julieanne |date=2021-10-29 |title=Students to collect food bank donations for annual Trick-or-Eat event |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2021/10/28/students-to-collect-food-bank-donations-for-annual-trick-or-eat-event/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> These events are generally themed, such as the 2022 drive entitled ‘Stack the Mac.’ Participants were tasked with collecting enough non-perishable pasta that the UCSU could build a tower taller than the University of Calgary’s mascot, [[Calgary Dinos|Rex]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Toombs |first=Aryn |date=2022-10-05 |title=University of Calgary Students' Union launches 'Stack the Mac' food drive |url=https://livewirecalgary.com/2022/10/05/university-calgary-students-union-stack-mac-food-drive/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=LiveWire Calgary |language=en-US}}</ref> The SU Campus Food Bank’s operations are also supported by year-round donations.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-06-10 |title=Campus Food Bank – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/food-bank/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+Every October, the SU Campus Food Bank maintains an annual food drive, run in partnership with the University of Calgary. Students and faculty alike are encouraged to form teams and compete to collect the most donations.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Acosta |first=Julieanne |date=2021-10-29 |title=Students to collect food bank donations for annual Trick-or-Eat event |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2021/10/28/students-to-collect-food-bank-donations-for-annual-trick-or-eat-event/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> These events are generally themed, such as the 2022 drive entitled ‘Stack the Mac.’ Participants were tasked with collecting enough non-perishable pasta that the UCSU could build a tower taller than the University of Calgary’s mascot, [[Calgary Dinos|Rex]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Toombs |first=Aryn |date=2022-10-05 |title=University of Calgary Students' Union launches 'Stack the Mac' food drive |url=https://livewirecalgary.com/2022/10/05/university-calgary-students-union-stack-mac-food-drive/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=LiveWire Calgary |language=en-US}}</ref> The SU Campus Food Bank’s operations are also supported by year-round donations.<ref name="su.ucalgary.ca"/>
 === LGBT+ programming ===
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 ==== Q Centre ====
-The SU Q Centre is a centre offering peer support services, events, and space to socialize for students who are members or allies of the LGBT+ community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Q Centre – University of Calgary – Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (ACLRC) |url=https://www.aclrc.com/issues/youth-safe/resources/q-centre-university-of-calgary/ |url-status=live |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre |language=en-US}}</ref> Primarily staffed by volunteers, the Q Centre opened on November 3, 2010.<ref name=":18">{{Cite web |last=Goddard |first=Nikayla |date=2019-11-18 |title=Q Centre celebrates nine years of support, resources and activism |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2019/11/18/q-centre-celebrates-nine-years-of-support-resources-and-activism/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> Within a decade of its opening, the Centre had expanded from 10 volunteers to 40.<ref name=":18" />
+The SU Q Centre is a centre offering peer support services, events, and space to socialize for students who are members or allies of the LGBT+ community.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Q Centre – University of Calgary – Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre (ACLRC) |url=https://www.aclrc.com/issues/youth-safe/resources/q-centre-university-of-calgary/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre |language=en-US}}</ref> Primarily staffed by volunteers, the Q Centre opened on November 3, 2010.<ref name=":18">{{Cite web |last=Goddard |first=Nikayla |date=2019-11-18 |title=Q Centre celebrates nine years of support, resources and activism |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2019/11/18/q-centre-celebrates-nine-years-of-support-resources-and-activism/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> Within a decade of its opening, the Centre had expanded from 10 volunteers to 40.<ref name=":18" />
 ==== Other initiatives ====
-Every August since 2012, the UCSU participates in Calgary Pride.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strasser |first=Scott |date=2016-08-31 |title=University of Calgary and SU prepare for Calgary Pride Parade |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2016/08/31/university-of-calgary-and-su-prepare-for-calgary-pride-parade/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2021, the Q Centre and wider UCSU successfully campaigned to simplify the process for students who legally change their names to update their records with the University of Calgary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - UCalgary invests in its putting people first program |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/954478/ucalgary-invests-in-its-putting-people-first-program.html |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> Students also received the option to submit a preferred name.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sherwani |first=Aymen |date=2022-10-24 |title=The Q Centre has reopened: Here’s a peek inside |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2022/10/24/the-q-centre-has-reopened-heres-a-peek-inside/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref>
+Every August since 2012, the UCSU participates in [[Calgary Pride]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Strasser |first=Scott |date=2016-08-31 |title=University of Calgary and SU prepare for Calgary Pride Parade |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2016/08/31/university-of-calgary-and-su-prepare-for-calgary-pride-parade/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2021, the Q Centre and wider UCSU successfully campaigned to simplify the process for students who legally change their names to update their records with the University of Calgary.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - UCalgary invests in its putting people first program |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/954478/ucalgary-invests-in-its-putting-people-first-program.html |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> Students also received the option to submit a preferred name.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Sherwani |first=Aymen |date=2022-10-24 |title=The Q Centre has reopened: Here's a peek inside |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2022/10/24/the-q-centre-has-reopened-heres-a-peek-inside/ |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref>
+=== Academic and campus services ===
+The UCSU has connected students in need of academic assistance with [[Tutoring|tutors]] since 2012 via the SU Tutor Registry.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Tutors – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-programs/tutors/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref name=":31">{{Cite book |last=Students' Union, University of Calgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/RTTC-2015-16.pdf |title=Report to the Community 2015-2016 |year=2016 |pages=15}}</ref> The UCSU also manages over 6,000 [[locker]]s throughout the institution,<ref name=":31" /> maintains a guide to study spaces across the University,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Study Space – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/academic-research/study-space/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> and operates the only [[Lost and found|Lost and Found]] on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=Lost & Found – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/student-services/lost-found/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+=== Philanthropic ventures ===
+==== Refugee Student Program ====
+In March 1986, students voted in favour of establishing a small levy to support the enrollment of at least one [[refugee]] student every year at the University.<ref name=":31" /> In partnership with the World University Service of Canada,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2016-03-30 |title=Student Refugee Program - Finding Hope in Higher Education |url=https://srp.wusc.ca/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=srp.wusc.ca |language=en-US}}</ref> students supported by the program include survivors of the [[Second Sudanese Civil War]]<ref>{{Cite news |last=Summerfield |first=Robin |date=17 October 2002 |title=Civil war survivors find refuge at U of C: Sudanese refugees become pupils with the help of students' union |work=The Calgary Herald |pages=42}}</ref> and students from [[refugee camp]]s in Malawi<ref name=":32">{{Cite news |last=Gerson |first=Jen |date=31 December 2011 |title=Refugees succeed with education gift: students fund program that changes lives |work=Calgary Herald |pages=}}</ref> and Kenya.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Myers |first=Sean |date=20 June 2006 |title=World Refugee Day: Safety of Canada ends 'nightmare' |work=Calgary Herald |pages=16}}</ref> 97% of students supported by the program go on to [[Graduation|graduate]].<ref name=":32" />
-=== The Committee of 10,000 ===
+==== The Committee of 10,000 ====
-Each year, the UCSU collects a small levy from undergraduates for the benefit of the Committee of 10,000.<ref name=":19">{{Cite web |date=1 July 2016 |title=Students' Union History Factsheet |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SU-History-fact-sheet.pdf |url-status=live |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> This committee, composed of student volunteers, accepts applications from charitable causes in Calgary and Alberta, and decides which should receive the funds raised from the student body.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - Committee of 10,000 announces latest fund recipients: More than $24,ooo earmarked for 10 non-profit organizations that help the most vulnerable in our city |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/896680/committee-of-10-000-announces-latest-fund-recipients-more-than-24-ooo-earmarked-for-10-non-profit-organizations-that-help-the-most-vulnerable-in-our-city.html |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> The UCSU’s primary permanent off-campus charitable effort, it was founded in honour of Olga Valda, who had been both a student and benefactor of the University of Calgary.
+Each year, the UCSU collects a small levy from undergraduates for the benefit of the Committee of 10,000.<ref name=":19">{{Cite web |date=1 July 2016 |title=Students' Union History Factsheet |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SU-History-fact-sheet.pdf |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref> This committee, composed of student volunteers, accepts applications from charitable causes in Calgary and Alberta, and decides which should receive the funds raised from the student body.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - Committee of 10,000 announces latest fund recipients: More than $24,ooo earmarked for 10 non-profit organizations that help the most vulnerable in our city |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/896680/committee-of-10-000-announces-latest-fund-recipients-more-than-24-ooo-earmarked-for-10-non-profit-organizations-that-help-the-most-vulnerable-in-our-city.html |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> The UCSU’s primary permanent off-campus charitable effort, it was founded in honour of Olga Valda, who had been both a student and benefactor of the University of Calgary.
 Valda, a [[Ballet dancer|ballerina]] by profession, arrived in Canada in 1919 and moved with her second husband to Calgary in 1950, where she established the Calgary Ballet School.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Primrose |first=Tom |date=3 May 1958 |title=Profile - Madame Valda. |work=Calgary Herald Magazine}}</ref> In 1961, aged 69, Valda enrolled at the University of Calgary to pursue a bachelor’s degree in [[Archaeology|archeology]].<ref name=":20">{{Cite news |last=MacEwan |first=Grant |date=6 November 1982 |title=Senior proves you're never too old |work=Calgary Herald |pages=95}}</ref> She quickly established a warm relationship with the UCSU, founding a Ballet Club that also conducted showcases of [[Russian folk dance|Russian folk dancing]] during her first year on campus.<ref>{{Cite book |title=Tally Stick |date=1962 |publisher=Students' Union, University of Calgary |pages=105}}</ref> The UCSU presented Valda with an award in 1963 for her contributions to campus life and deemed her to be one of the campus’s “most celebrated” students in 1966. In a profile of Valda’s academic life for the Calgary Herald, [[Grant MacEwan]] wrote that she was the oldest graduate in Canada at the time of her graduation in 1969.<ref name=":20" />
 Valda maintained a relationship with the University until her death in 1973.<ref>{{Cite news |date=12 November 1971 |title=79, former ballerina seeks MA |work=Edmonton Journal |pages=17}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=22 March 1973 |title=Calgary Herald |work=Former ballerina dies after lengthy illness |pages=54}}</ref> She bequeathed a portion of her estate to the University of Calgary to provide bursaries for students who needed it. This bursary, which the University named after her, ran until 2005.<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary: Calendar: Entrance Awards: Faculty of Fine Arts |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/pubs/calendar/archives/2005/what/awards/entrance/FA.htm |access-date=2025-05-23 |website=www.ucalgary.ca}}</ref> The UCSU decided to honour Valda as well by establishing the “Committee of 10,000,” so named due to the number of students enrolled at the time of its 1973 founding.<ref name=":19" />
+== Student clubs ==
+[[Student society|Student clubs]] may sign up with the UCSU to become an SU Registered Club, which entitles them to access services provided by the students' association, including free event spaces and activities funding.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=STUDENTS' UNION CLUBS – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/students-union-clubs/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> As of 2024, there are more than 300 SU Registered Clubs active at the university.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chukwukelu |first=Marvellous |date=2024-09-06 |title=FROSH 2024: Clubs to join at the U of C |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2024/09/05/frosh-2024-clubs-to-join-at-the-u-of-c/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-CA}}</ref> In the 21st century, organizations that have registered with the SU include clubs for [[aquaponics]] and [[Improvisational theatre|improvisational comedy]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Lewis |first=Evan |date=2017-09-22 |title=The U of C's most obscure clubs |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2017/09/22/the-u-of-cs-most-obscure-clubs/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kubur |first=Sheroog |date=2022-09-12 |title=What kind of clubs are out there? |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2022/09/12/what-kind-of-clubs-are-out-there/ |access-date= |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+=== Early student clubs: 1911-1945 ===
+The student government of the Calgary Normal School, the respective predecessors to the UCSU and University of Calgary, initially consisted of two committees that were responsible for arranging extracurricular activities.<ref name=":28" /> The first was the Literary Executive, which organized weekly assemblies known as the ‘Friday Lit.’ Each class was invited to put on a short dramatic performance for the enjoyment of the student body.<ref name=":29" /> Most were student-run, though staff would sometimes be enlisted to help if a class wished to perform a musical.<ref name=":29" /> The second student committee was the Athletic Executive, tasked with organizing sporting events for their fellow students.<ref name=":28" /> Representatives were each responsible for a sport, with early portfolios including [[Tennis|lawn tennis]], [[baseball]], and [[ice hockey|hockey]].<ref name=":29" />
+== Events ==
+The UCSU hosts a series of regular events for the benefit of campus life. It has also hosted events that have been discontinued.
+=== Ongoing events ===
+==== Teaching Excellence Awards (1983-) ====
+The UCSU began distributing awards for outstanding performances by University of Calgary instructors in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=Past Winners – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/teaching-excellence-awards/past-winners/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> These awards were formalized into the Teaching Excellence Awards in 1983.<ref name=":27">{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/funding-awards/teaching-excellence-awards/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> Every fall, the UCSU invites students to nominate instructors and teaching assistants at the University of Calgary that have positively impacted their education and experience.<ref name=":27" /> Winners are awarded at a presentation ceremony in April.<ref name=":27" />
+[[File:MacEwan Hall mall, U of C (8393674154).jpg|left|thumb|254x254px|Clubs Week in MacEwan Hall, 2013.]]
+==== Clubs Week (1993-) ====
+Once every semester, student clubs are invited to set up displays in MacEwan Hall to showcase their club's activities and recruit new members.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-07-22 |title=Clubs Week – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/students-union-clubs/clubs-week/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Students' Union, University of Calgary |title=Tallystick Yearbook 1993-94 |publisher=UCSU |year=1994 |pages=38}}</ref>
+===== Undergraduate Research Symposium (2009-) =====
+Since 2006, the annual SU Undergraduate Research Symposium has celebrated research by the University's undergraduates.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=University of Calgary |title=Students' Union Undergraduate Research Symposium |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1880/100022 |website=PRISM|hdl=1880/100022 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Memon |first=Ashar |date=2017-10-18 |title=Applications open as SU prepares for Undergraduate Research Symposium |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2017/10/18/applications-open-as-su-prepares-for-undergraduate-research-symposium/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> Students who have participated in research while enrolled at the institution showcase their work and receive awards.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Undergraduate Research Symposium – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/programs-services/academic-research/undergrad-research-symposium/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+==== Sex Week (2012-) ====
+In 2012, the UCSU and its Q Centre first partnered with the Women’s Resource Centre and campus Wellness Centre to host Sex Week, which has been held every year since.<ref name=":33">{{Cite web |last=Shaygan |first=Tina |date=2018-01-30 |title=The sex-ed you probably missed out on in high school |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2018/01/30/the-sex-ed-you-probably-missed-out-on-in-high-school/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=}}</ref> The occasion features workshops and events intended to further [[Sex education|sexual education]], and make students aware of resources available to them for matters such as sexual assault or sexual identity.<ref name=":33" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=Sexual and Gender Wellness Week – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/events/sexweek/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref>
+==== StressLess Week (2021-) ====
+In the final week of November, the UCSU hosts a series of activities designed to help students alleviate [[Stress (biology)|stress]]<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-05-26 |title=StressLess – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/events/stressless/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> ahead of [[exam]]s in December.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Academic dates {{!}} Office of the Registrar {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/registrar/academic-dates |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref>
+=== Discontinued events ===
+==== Bermuda Shorts Day (1961-2023) ====
+[[File:BSDUCalg.jpg|thumb|266x266px|A statue outside the University's Energy Environment and Experiential Learning Building<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-13 |title=University of Calgary's Public Art Gets No Respect! |url=https://everydaytourist.ca/calgary-visitor-information/2018/5/10/university-of-calgarys-public-art-gets-no-respect |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Every Day Tourist |language=en-US}}</ref> is vandalized with a pair of Bermuda shorts (April 2015).]]
+In 1961, a student named Alan Arthur, who had recently purchased his first pair of [[Bermuda shorts]], wrote on a blackboard ahead of the last day of classes: "Tomorrow is Bermuda Shorts Day. Everyone wear Bermuda Shorts."<ref name=":34">{{Cite news |last=Yacowar |first=Maurice |date=2005 |title=Lettter: On the Origin of BSD |url=https://archive.thegauntlet.ca/2011/04/lettter-origin-bsd/ |work=The Gauntlet}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-04-13 |title=Bermuda Shorts Day, we salute you |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bermuda-shorts-day-we-salute-you |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190926064635/https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/bermuda-shorts-day-we-salute-you |archive-date=2019-09-26 |access-date=2025-06-24 |work=Calgary Herald |language=en-US}}</ref> 250 students participated, assembling to play [[Marble (toy)|marbles]].<ref name=":35">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2015-04-09 |title=#throwbackthursday: a history of Bermuda Shorts Day |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2015/04/08/throwbackthursday-a-history-of-bermuda-shorts-day/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":34" /> (Although the event is occasionally attributed to Maurice Yacowar, the first editor of [[The Gauntlet]] and later SU President,<ref name=":35" /> Yacowar confirmed that Arthur was the event's unwitting founder in 2005.<ref name=":34" />)
+Students subsequently made an annual tradition of wearing [[Bermuda shorts|shorts]] on the last day of classes. The UCSU began organizing events including [[Concert|live music]] and [[beer garden]]s in 1979,<ref name=":35" /> though it would not become the primary organizer until 1989, when the University asked the students' council to consolidate festivities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Shaygan |first=Tina |date=2018-03-15 |title=Students' Union says U of C lack of cooperation behind Bermuda Shorts Day price-tag |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2018/03/15/students-union-says-u-of-c-lack-of-cooperation-behind-bermuda-shorts-day-price-tag/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Herring |first=Jason |date=11 April 2022 |title=For third straight year, no official Bermuda Shorts Day celebrations at U of C |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/for-third-straight-year-no-official-bermuda-shorts-day-celebrations-at-the-u-of-c |archive-url= |archive-date= |access-date=2025-06-24 |work=Calgary Herald |language=en-CA}}</ref> The event attracted recognition by Canadian media as a local tradition,<ref>{{Cite news |title=Bermuda Shorts Days we have known |url=https://calgaryherald.com/gallery/bermuda-shorts-days-we-have-known |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20210624130748/https://calgaryherald.com/gallery/bermuda-shorts-days-we-have-known |archive-date=2021-06-24 |access-date=2025-06-24 |work=calgaryherald |language=en-CA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Calgary |first=Ryan White-CTV |date=2013-04-16 |title=Hammered on Bermuda Shorts Day |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/hammered-on-bermuda-shorts-day/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}</ref> and criticism for unsafe or disorderly activities.<ref name="Macfarlane">{{Cite web |last=Macfarlane |first=Bill |date=2024-04-10 |title=Bermuda Shorts Day party closes street, draws police to frustration of neighbours |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/bermuda-shorts-day-party-closes-street-draws-police-to-frustration-of-neighbours/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}</ref> Events that took place outside the UCSU's control were occasionally disbursed by the police, with one notable example occurring in 2010, when students celebrated by [[racing]] modified [[couch]]es that they pushed down a hill.<ref>{{Cite news |last=CBC |date=16 April 2010 |title=Couch crashes break up U of C party |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/couch-crashes-break-up-u-of-c-party-1.953012 |work=CBC News}}</ref>
+An off-campus Bermuda Shorts Day party was the scene of the [[2014 Calgary stabbing]]s.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CBC News |date=14 April 2015 |title=Bermuda Shorts Day alternative offered during Calgary stabbings anniversary |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/bermuda-shorts-day-alternative-offered-during-calgary-stabbings-anniversary-1.3031908 |website=CBC}}</ref> One of the attack's victims, Lawrence Hong, was an [[urban studies]] undergraduate who had volunteered at the SU's Q Centre for three years, where he was a popular mentor to other students.<ref>{{Cite web |last=City News. |date=10 June 2014 |title=U of C to honor Brentwood stabbing victim |url=https://calgary.citynews.ca/2014/06/10/u-of-c-to-honor-brentwood-stabbing-victim/ }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gilligan |first=Melissa |date=11 June 2014 |title=Young Calgary stabbing victims receive honorary degrees |url=https://globalnews.ca/news/1387329/stabbing-victims-granted-posthumous-degrees-from-university-of-calgary/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Global News |language=en-US}}</ref> The Q Centre held a [[vigil]] in Hong's memory.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calgary |first=CTV Calgary Staff-CTV |date=2014-04-23 |title=Last victim of Brentwood homicide laid to rest |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/last-victim-of-brentwood-homicide-laid-to-rest/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}</ref>
+In its final few years of operation as an SU event, Bermuda Shorts Day ran at a [[Deficit (economics)|deficit]].<ref name=":36">{{Cite web |last=Herring |first=Jason |date=2018-04-03 |title=The growing financial unsustainability of Bermuda Shorts Day |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2018/04/03/the-growing-financial-unsustainability-of-bermuda-shorts-day/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=The Gauntlet |language=en-US}}</ref> By 2019, the UCSU reported that it had incurred a loss of over $98,000.<ref name=":37">{{Cite web |last=Hume |first=Matty |date=4 July 2018 |title=SU reports $98,000-plus deficit for 2018 Bermuda Shorts Day |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2018/07/04/su-reports-98000-plus-deficit-for-2018-bermuda-shorts-day/ |url-status= |website=The Gauntlet}}</ref> In 2018 and 2019, the UCSU attributed the expense to dwindling attendance numbers, exacerbated by the University's expectation that the UCSU would bear all the costs of security for the event.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamilton |first=Alex |date=2019-04-09 |title=University of Calgary students upset at Bermuda Shorts Day moving indoors |url=https://livewirecalgary.com/2019/04/08/university-of-calgary-students-upset-at-bermuda-shorts-day-moving-indoors/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=LiveWire Calgary |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":37" /> The University had contended in 2016 that it did not expect the UCSU to cover all the security expenses of the event, but did not dispute that it had begun charging the UCSU almost $100,000 a year by 2017.<ref name=":36" />
+The most recent UCSU-organized Bermuda Shorts Day occurred in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Brown |first=Michael |date=2023-03-14 |title=Bermuda Shorts Day – Q&A – Students' Union, UCalgary |url=https://su.ucalgary.ca/2023/bermuda-shorts-day-qa/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |language=en-CA}}</ref> By 2024, the UCSU was no longer able to pay the University's rising costs, and events were reported as having been driven off-campus.<ref name="Macfarlane"/>
 ==Students' Legislative Council==
-The Students' Union's highest governing body is the Students' Legislative Council, where all resolutions, major policies, and positions are voted on. All undergraduates enrolled at the University are eligible to participate in the Council's yearly general election.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web |date=2 April 2024 |title=Union Bylaw |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Union-Bylaw-April-2024.v.1.1.pdf |url-status=live |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref>
+The UCSU's highest governing body is the Students' Legislative Council, where all resolutions, major policies, and positions are voted on. All undergraduates enrolled at the University are eligible to participate in the Council's yearly general election.<ref name=":21">{{Cite web |date=2 April 2024 |title=Union Bylaw |url=https://www.su.ucalgary.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Union-Bylaw-April-2024.v.1.1.pdf |website=Students' Union, University of Calgary}}</ref>
 The Council consists of four Executives, who work in their positions full-time, and at least twelve Faculty Representatives from the University of Calgary's various academic Faculties.<ref name=":21" /> Each Faculty may elect an additional representative for every additional 2,000 students enrolled. Undergraduates also elect two representatives to the University of Calgary's Senate, and one representative to the University's Board of Governors.<ref name=":21" />
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 ==Provincial and federal representation==
-The University of Calgary Students' Union participates in the [[Canadian Alliance of Students Associations]]. Previously, they were a member of [[Council of Alberta University Students]] on the provincial level.<ref>{{cite web |title=SLC votes to withdraw from the Council of Alberta University Students {{!}} The Gauntlet |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2021/12/13/slc-votes-to-withdraw-from-the-council-of-alberta-uni}}</ref>
+The UCSU is a member of the [[Canadian Alliance of Students Associations]], a federal advocacy organization that unites students' associations throughout Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Members |url=https://www.casa-acae.com/members |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=Canadian Alliance of Student Associations |language=en}}</ref> Previously, the organization belonged to provincial advocacy organization [[Council of Alberta University Students]].<ref>{{cite web |title=SLC votes to withdraw from the Council of Alberta University Students {{!}} The Gauntlet |date=14 December 2021 |url=https://thegauntlet.ca/2021/12/13/slc-votes-to-withdraw-from-the-council-of-alberta-uni}}</ref>
 == Notable former student leaders ==
-* [[Jim Hawkes]]: President (1953-54);<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold University of Alberta in Calgary (1953) |date=1953 |publisher=Calgary Students' Union |type=Yearbook}}</ref> [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Calgary West]] from 1979 until 1993.
+=== Former Presidents and Vice-Presidents ===
-* [[Paul Unongo]]: President (1963-64); the first international student to become President of the UCSU, Unongo went on to become a federal minister in his native [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yacowar |first=Maurice |url=https://www.aupress.ca/app/uploads/120180_99Z_Yacowar_2010-Roy_and_Me.pdf |title=Roy & Me: This is Not a Memoir |date=2010 |publisher=AU Press, Athabasca University |isbn=978-1-926836-10-2 |pages=85}}</ref>
+{{Columns-list|* [[Jim Hawkes]]: (1953-54);<ref>{{Cite book |title=Evergreen and Gold University of Alberta in Calgary (1953) |date=1953 |publisher=Calgary Students' Union |type=Yearbook}}</ref> [[Member of Parliament (Canada)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Calgary West]] from 1979 until 1993.
-* [[Tag Goulet]]: President (1980-81); author, publisher, and film producer. Goulet, the first [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous]] person to lead the UCSU, is [[Métis people (Canada)|Canadian Metis]], and has worked in advocacy roles for the Indigenous community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barkwell |first=Lawrence |date=2018 |title=Métis Dictionary of Biography Volume E to G |url=https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149488.Metis%20Biography%20E%20to%20G.pdf |url-status=live |website=Métis Museum |page=144}}</ref>
+* [[Paul Unongo]]: (1963-64); the first international student to become President of the UCSU, Unongo went on to become a federal minister in his native [[Nigeria]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Yacowar |first=Maurice |url=https://www.aupress.ca/app/uploads/120180_99Z_Yacowar_2010-Roy_and_Me.pdf |title=Roy & Me: This is Not a Memoir |date=2010 |publisher=AU Press, Athabasca University |isbn=978-1-926836-10-2 |pages=85}}</ref>
-* [[Myles McDougall]]: President (1984-85);<ref name=":26" /> Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] for [[Calgary-Fish Creek]] and current Albertan [[Alberta Advanced Education|Minister of Advanced Education]].
+* Douglas R. Mah (1977-78);<ref>{{Cite web |last=Mah |first=Douglas R. |date=3 August 1977 |title=Report of the Students' Legislative Council to the Board of Governors on the proposed 10% increase in student tuition fees |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1FU0L3TA |access-date=22 July 2025 |website=University of Calgary - Digital Collections |series=CU15892069}}</ref> appointed Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Canada |first=Department of Justice |date=2016-06-17 |title=Biographical Notes |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2016/06/biographical-notes.html |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.canada.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Department of Justice Canada |date=2015-10-13 |title=Government of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2016/06/government-of-canada-announces-judicial-appointments-in-the-province-of-alberta.html |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.canada.ca}}</ref>
-* Nima Dorjee: President (1989-90); engineer and entrepreneur. Dorjee, himself born into a Tibetan refugee family, was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2024 for his work in refugee resettlement and mentoring aspiring engineers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-29 |title=Order of Canada appointment recognizes UCalgary alum Nima Dorjee’s optimism and community leadership {{!}} News {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/news/order-canada-appointment-recognizes-ucalgary-alum-nima-dorjees-optimism-and-community-leadership |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=schulich.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref>
+* [[Tag Goulet]]: (1980-81); author, publisher, and film producer. Goulet, the first [[Indigenous peoples in Canada|Indigenous]] person to lead the UCSU, is [[Métis people (Canada)|Canadian Metis]], and has worked in advocacy roles for the Indigenous community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Barkwell |first=Lawrence |date=2018 |title=Métis Dictionary of Biography Volume E to G |url=https://www.metismuseum.ca/media/document.php/149488.Metis%20Biography%20E%20to%20G.pdf |website=Métis Museum |page=144}}</ref>
-* [[Naheed Nenshi]]: President (1993-94);<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - Naheed Nenshi becomes latest UCalgary alumni to lead major political party |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/1091206/naheed-nenshi-becomes-latest-ucalgary-alumni-to-lead-major-political-party.html |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> thrice-elected mayor of Calgary, current leader of the [[Alberta New Democratic Party]].
+* [[Myles McDougall]]: (1984-85);<ref name=":26" /> Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of Alberta]] for [[Calgary-Fish Creek]] and current Albertan [[Alberta Advanced Education|Minister of Advanced Education]].
-* Lauren Webber: President (2010-11);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lauren Webber {{!}} Women's Resource Centre {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/student-services/womens-centre/lauren-webber |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=www.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref> daughter of former [[House of Commons of Canada|Member of Parliament]], [[Len Webber]], and one recipient of the [[2020 Nobel Peace Prize]], for her work with the [[United Nations]] [[World Food Programme]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frazer-Harrison |first=Alex |date=4 November 2020 |title=A banner year for Webber Cousins |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref>
+* Nima Dorjee: (1989-90); engineer and entrepreneur. Dorjee, himself born into a Tibetan refugee family, was appointed a Member of the [[Order of Canada]] in 2024 for his work in refugee resettlement and mentoring aspiring engineers.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-08-29 |title=Order of Canada appointment recognizes UCalgary alum Nima Dorjee's optimism and community leadership {{!}} News {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://schulich.ucalgary.ca/news/order-canada-appointment-recognizes-ucalgary-alum-nima-dorjees-optimism-and-community-leadership |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=schulich.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref>
+* [[Naheed Nenshi]]: (1993-94);<ref>{{Cite web |title=University of Calgary - Naheed Nenshi becomes latest UCalgary alumni to lead major political party |url=https://educationnewscanada.com/article/education/level/university/1/1091206/naheed-nenshi-becomes-latest-ucalgary-alumni-to-lead-major-political-party.html |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=Education News Canada |language=en}}</ref> thrice-elected mayor of Calgary, current leader of the [[Alberta New Democratic Party]].
+* Lauren Webber: (2010-11);<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lauren Webber {{!}} Women's Resource Centre {{!}} University of Calgary |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/student-services/womens-centre/lauren-webber |access-date=2025-05-24 |website=www.ucalgary.ca |language=en}}</ref> daughter of former [[House of Commons of Canada|Member of Parliament]], [[Len Webber]], and one recipient of the [[2020 Nobel Peace Prize]], for her work with the [[United Nations]] [[World Food Programme]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Frazer-Harrison |first=Alex |date=4 November 2020 |title=A banner year for Webber Cousins |work=Calgary Herald}}</ref>|colwidth=20em}}
+'''Former SU Faculty Representatives and Student Officers'''
+{{Columns-list|* Stella Thompson ([[Birth name|née]] Margery Lee): Vice President (1965-66); [[Alberta Order of Excellence]] recipient and one of the first women to become an [[Business executive|executive]] in the province's [[Petroleum industry in Canada#Alberta|energy industry]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=The Alberta Order of Excellence |date=2025-06-17 |title=Members: Stella Thompson |url=https://www.alberta.ca/aoe-stella-thompson |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.alberta.ca |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=UAlberta |title=Alumni Awards 2018: Stella Thompson - For blazing a trail for women in business |url=https://www.ualberta.ca/en/newtrail/_migrated-content/alumni-awards-2018/stella-thompson.html |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=University of Alberta |language=en}}</ref>
+* [[Douglas Wiens]]: Faculty of Arts Representative (1971); [[statistician]] and editor of the [[The Canadian Journal of Statistics|Canadian Journal of Statistics]].
+* Gerry 'Gus' Thorson: Faculty of Physical Education Representative (1981-82); equipment manager for the [[Calgary Flames]] for 11 years and prominent figure in Calgary's [[ice hockey|hockey]] community.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Calgary Flames Staff |date=2024-11-02 |title='He's Leaving A Great Legacy': Flames share memories of the legendary Gus Thorson |url=https://www.nhl.com/flames/news/flames-share-memories-of-the-legendary-gus-thorson |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.nhl.com |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Ellis |first=Brendan |date=2024-10-28 |title=Calgary hockey community mourning loss of former Flames equipment manager |url=https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/calgary-hockey-community-mourning-loss-of-former-flames-equipment-manager/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=CTVNews |language=en}}</ref>
+* [[Pratima Bansal]]: Faculty of Social Sciences Representative (1982-83);<ref>{{Cite news |last=Truscott |first=David |date=17 September 1980 |title=FAS to face confrontation. |url=https://digitalcollections.ucalgary.ca/asset-management/2R3BF1FPYKIYV |work=The Gauntlet |pages=1 |volume=21 |issue=2}}</ref> a prominent [[economist]] and fellow of the [[Royal Society of Canada]].
+* [[Christopher J. Coates]]: two-time Faculty of Science Representative (1985-86, 1986-87); [[Lieutenant-general (Canada)|Lieutenant-General]] of the [[Royal Canadian Air Force]] who served as commander of [[Canadian Joint Operations Command]].
+* Goldy Hyder: External Affairs (1987-88); former [[Hill & Knowlton|Hill+Knowlton]] executive, appointed as president and CEO of the [[Business Council of Canada]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ottawa Business Journal |date=2018-11-07 |title=People on the move: Goldy Hyder 'humbled' to lead Business Council of Canada – Ottawa Business Journal |url=https://obj.ca/people-on-the-move-goldy-hyder-humbled-to-lead-business-council-of-canada/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=O.B.J. |language=en-US}}</ref>
+* [[Nicholas Devlin]]: Finance Committee (1991-92); a Justice of the [[Court of King's Bench of Alberta]] who previously served as a prosecutor in high-profile cases, including [[2017 reasons of the Supreme Court of Canada|R v. Antic]].
+* Oliver Ho: Events (2001-02); a Justice of the [[Court of King's Bench of Alberta]] and recipient of several awards for mentoring activities.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Department of Justice Canada |date=2024-04-15 |title=Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada announces judicial appointments in the province of Alberta |url=https://www.canada.ca/en/department-justice/news/2024/04/minister-of-justice-and-attorney-general-of-canada-announces-judicial-appointments-in-the-province-of-alberta.html |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=www.canada.ca}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oliver Ho is appointed a Justice of the Court of King's Bench of Alberta |url=https://jssbarristers.ca/litigation-law-firm/news/oliver-ho-is-appointed-a-justice-of-the-court-of-kings-bench-of-alberta/ |access-date=2025-06-24 |website=JSS Barristers |language=en-US}}</ref>|colwidth=20em}}
 ==References==
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 * [https://www.ucalgary.ca/ University Site]
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 [[Category:Alberta students' associations|Calgary]]
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 [[Category:Organizations based in Calgary]]