Federation of Students Elections

The purpose of the Students’ Council is to uphold the goals of the Federation of Students under its Charter and its by-laws, and to establish policies of the corporation.

Students’ Council is made up of representatives from all faculties, disciplines and affiliated colleges, with the number of seats in each constituency being calculated by a formula based on enrolment. In general, these positions are elected each winter term.

Council provides a representative forum for student input into Federation activities, appoints Commissioners and designates the Committees of Students’ Council. It also administers and oversees the budgeting of membership fees. Committees of council deal with other areas including administration of clubs, funding for activities & projects, budgeting, education policy (local, provincial, federal), elections, referenda and more.

The President and three Vice-Presidents are ex-officio voting members of Students’ Council.

Students’ Council oversees the Executives in the performance of their jobs in areas where Students’ Council has oversight responsibilities. Any councillor may request to add items for consideration at Council in accordance with all relevant bylaws, policies and procedures of the Federation of Students.

A majority of members of Students’ Council are elected to, and take office at the same time as our President and Vice-Presidents (which is May 1 of each year). Where a constituency has a number of students registered in the co-op stream that is greater than the number of students registered in the regular stream, half of the seats in the constituency (rounding down) are held over for election in the Spring term, before May 30th.