Monash University Student Union Caulfield

Monash University Student Union Caulfield (MONSU Caulfield) is the representative student body for the Caulfield Campus of Monash University.

History

MONSU Caulfield is the successor of its predecessor organisations, which were:

   * Caulfield Institute of Technology Students' Representative Council;
   * Caulfield Institute of Technology Student Union;
   * Chisholm Institute of Technology Student Union (CITSU);
   * Monash University Student Union (MUSU then MONSU); and now Monash University Student Union Caulfield (MONSU Caulfield)

'The Monash University Student Union (MONSU)

The Monash University Student Union had a dual structure, including a both a representative arm and a services arm.

The representative arm was known as the Student Association, which was responsible for student representation across both the Caulfield and Peninsula Campuses of Monash University. The senior members of the Student Association were also members of the Board.

The services arm was led by the MONSU Board, Bookshop Board and Catering Board. This meant that MONSU was responsible for student representation and service delivery, often forcing that the politics of student representation to affect service delivery. MONSU operated across the Caulfield Campus and the Peninsula Campus of Monash University, and ran a number of other off-campus ventures that were extremely successful.

This enabled revenue from off-campus services to go towards reducing the amenities fee paid by students.

The Establishment of MONSU Caulfield

Due to the enormous change and to MONSU's structure through the formation of Monyx and its ceasing to act as the primary service provider on the two campuses the role of MONSU was primarily a student representative organisation. As a representative organisation it was felt that it was best that each campus was best represented by a representative organisation specific to that campus. MONSU took the opportunity to reform its student representative structure and constitution by establishing two separate student councils under the MONSU Board.

Each student council, the MONSU Caulfield Student Council and the MONSU Peninsula Student Council, would take primary responsibility for the representation of the students on their respective campuses and the MONSU Board would be responsible for ensuring that both Student Councils operated successfully and were open and transparent.

During this process new student representative structures were established with separate campus Presidents, the introduction of a Clubs Council and Clubs Council Coordinator (now Clubs Officer), 2 x Sexuality Officer (one female, one male) positions and including the Overseas Student Services as part of MONSU Caulfield to ensure international students had a direct say in the management of MONSU Caulfield.

External links

• MONSU Caulfield