| Motto | Working for students |
|---|---|
| Institution | University of Alberta |
| Location | Edmonton, Alberta |
| Established | 1909 |
| President | Rory Tighe |
| Vice presidents | Colten Yamagishi, Andy Cheema, Farid Iskandar, Emerson Csorba |
| Members | 30,000 |
| Affiliations | Council of Alberta University Students, Canadian Alliance of Student Associations |
| Website | su.ualberta.ca |
The University of Alberta Students' Union is the student society that represents undergraduate students at the University of Alberta. Originally established in 1909, it is a non-profit corporation that operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Alberta). Its membership consists of the roughly 30,000 [1] undergraduate students enrolled at the university.
With an annual budget of approximately $10,000,000 and hundreds of paid and volunteer staff, the Students' Union serves as an advocate for students and provides a variety of services to its members. The Students' Union also operates a number of businesses, manages various targeted trust funds, hosts a wide variety of entertainment and educational events, and runs the Students' Union Building.
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Students' Council is the ultimate decision-making body of the Students' Union and is composed of representatives elected from each faculty (32), five executive members elected in a campus-wide general election each March, and one undergraduate student elected in the same election to serve on the University's Board of Governors.
Provincially, the Students' Union participates in the Council of Alberta University Students. The Students' Union was a founding member of the Canadian Alliance of Students Associations. While it took a brief hiatus on its membership, having pulled out in 2003, the Students' Union moved to rejoin CASA in March 2008.[2]
The Students' Union provides a number of services to assist students in their academic careers.[3] These services include:
The Students' Union also runs several businesses, which offer discounts to Students' Union staff and volunteers.
Bear Scat was a service provided by the University of Alberta Students Union as an alternative to the Bear Tracks service operated by the UofA. Services of the website/application include: Scheduling, Add / Drop Classes, Class opening notification, and suggested textbooks. In the 2006/2007 academic season, Bear Scat served 10.6 million pages, processed 1.2 million transactions, and designed 135,000 schedules.[4] Bear Scat has recently been phased out, as recent updates to the UofA Bear Tracks service now make Bear Scat redundant. These updates have been heavily influenced by the founders of Bear Scat, and retain many of Bear Scat's features such as class availability notifications and visual timetables.
Several people who have served as president of the University of Alberta Students' Union have gone on to achieve some level of fame.
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