Arc @ UNSW
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arc @ UNSW is the principal student union at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. Arc was established in late 2006 as a shelf company called ACN 121 239 674 Limited and assumed the functions of three existing student organisations:
- the University of New South Wales Student Guild: advocacy, legal and academic advice, clubs and societies and the student newspaper, Tharunka
- Source (UNSW): campus services including retailing and student activities
- the College of Fine Arts Students' Association: a student union and campus service provider at the UNSW College of Fine Arts in Paddington.
Arc was established ahead of the full implementation of voluntary student unionism, which will require student unions to become more efficient and selective in the services they deliver. The Chair of Arc is Kate Bartlett.
Contents |
[edit] Funding
Whereas its predecessors relied for funding upon a compulsory membership fee paid by students, Arc's primary sources of revenue will be from agreements to provide services to students on the university's behalf and the profits from on-campus retailing.
[edit] Structure
The New Student Organisation will be structured as three semi-autonomous bodies with an overarching governing body. The three arms of the new organisation included Clubs and Activities, Representative Council and Central Services.
Arc is governed by a 13-member board, of whom eight members will be elected student representatives. This model mirrors the model behind the Source and was agreed by the four constituent organisations and the University administration, and underwent feasibility testing by consultancy PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the organisations' 300 staff positions will be cut to 80 or 90.[1]
[edit] Interim Board
An interim was created to oversee the transition into the new organisation. The five Source board members appointed to the ACN 121 239 674 Limited "transitional board" form the largest delegation, followed by three Guild representatives, two COFASA representatives, two UNSW staff and one postgraduate representative.
The interim board of the organisation consists of the following representives:
- Kate Bartlett (Source president)
- Tony Cinque (Source CEO)
- Hamish Collings-Begg (Source board member)
- Greg Moore (Source board member and former Union president)
- Andrew Wells (Source board member and UNSW Librarian)
- Xavier O’Halloran (Guild president)
- Michael Pratt (Guild council presiding member)
- Jesse Young (Guild president-elect)
- Hayden Daley (COFASA treasurer)
- Stephen Mok (COFASA president)
- Sarah Long (UNSW staffer)
- Betty Chow (UNSW staffer)
- Angela Barrett (postgraduate representative on UNSW Council)
Though the board will likely avoid questions of politics, Bartlett and Barrett are associated with 2003 Guild ticket Students First (Student Unity)[2]; while O'Halloran[3], Pratt[4] and Young[5] are associated with Guild ticket Power (National Labor Students).
[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- Arc website
- Arc orientation week website
- The Final Report of the VSU Mediation Group of UNSW Student Organisations
- The Implications of Voluntary Student Unionism Legislation for UNSW
- Report of Working Party on Sport at UNSW
