It is made up of Northern and Southern co–chairs plus representatives from all four provinces: two from Ulster, two from Leinster and one each from Munster and Connacht. It meets four times per year and also meets with all the local CU leaders annually in a President’s Forum.
There are three strands to the Student Council work:
- Information: it is a place where the Director can inform the student representatives of current issues facing CUI.
- Analysis: it gives the student representatives an opportunity to analyse the effectiveness of CUI from a student perspective and offer feedback on recent initiatives. Sometimes this feedback may be based on a wider survey carried out regionally amongst students.
- Participation: it allows students, through their representatives to place issues on the agenda of CUI staff and Board, to ask for guidance and to suggest areas for further consideration by the Movement. The Student Co–chairs sit on the CUI Board.
Recent initiatives undertaken by the Student Council include:
- a Day Conference for final year students and recent graduates;
- a pilot mission partnership with GBU Italy
- a request that CUI Board examine the implications fro the Movement of recent developments in gender politics
CUI Student Council 2017–2018 Chair Persons
Thomas Adamson & Gavin Rothwell
Region Representatives
Ulster
Aaron Bell
Staci Maxwell
Leinster
Emma Martin
James Lockwood
David Stedmond
Connacht
Alesia Yermak
Munster
Simon Patterson