MISU.IE - Mary Immaculate College Students Union

Mary I Students’ Union (MISU) provides support, representation and services to its members who are the students of MIC. MISU represents the student body in negotiations with college staff and management and with other organisations on a local, national and international level. Students are represented by the elected Mary I Students’ Union executive committee officers. The union is administered by the General Manager, Receptionist and Accounts Technician.

• Mission Statement
• Aims
• Objectives
• Structure
  
• Constitution
  
• Executive Committee
• Union Council
• Class Reps

Mission Statement

"Giving you a voice, helping you to use it, enriching your college experience."

Aims

• - Give students a say in their own student/college life
• - Protect and represent students in academic and non-academic matters
• - Create a positive college experience for students
• - Help new students integrate into college life
• - Facilitate extra-curricular activities for students

Objectives

• - Working together with all college departments to ensure that key relationships are developed and maintained
• - Providing assistance, information, services, guidance, security and entertainments for the student population
• - Providing the best possible balance between academic and social experiences
• - Being an approachable and welcoming point of contact for students, even if it’s just for a chat!
• - Encouraging increased student participation in extra-curricular activities
• - Improving the college physical environment

Union Council is the representative body of the Union, which determines the policy of the Union and mandates the Executive Committee subject to the decisions of Union General Meetings and referenda. Union Council meets every two weeks and is comprised of elected class representatives (class reps), the two sabbatical officers as well as two other officers of the Executive Committee.  

The Executive Committee is responsible for the initiation of policy of the Union subject to Union Council, General Meetings and Referenda. The Exec consists of elected members, whose responsibilities cover the whole spectrum of student concerns from educational issues to accommodation to discrimination and much more. 

The Students’ Union Executive is the committee that runs the Union on an ongoing basis. However, the main responsibility for the day-to-day running of the Union lays with the Sabbatical Officers, the General Manager, Receptionist and Accounts Technician.