Students' Union, 1964-2020
Description
- Media Type
- Text
- Object
- Item Types
- Invitations
- Leaflets
- Correspondence
- Documents
- Pamphlets
- Newsletters
- Plaques
- Description
- ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY
The Students' Union is the independently incorporated organization of student government at St. Jerome's. All students who are registered at St. Jerome's are eligible for membership in the Students' Union. The Students' Union primarily exits to serve all students of St. Jerome's and to respond to any of their concerns. The Students' Union acts as a liaison between the administration and the students. It facilitates social events and information sessions and sponsors activities which promote student participation.
The Students' Union council is made up of five executive officers (President, Vice-President, Treasurer, Secretary, Social Convenor), and a number of student representatives. By 2013 the Executive Officers were the President, the Vice-President and Administrative Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Human Resources Officer, and the Public Relations Officer.
SCOPE AND CONTENTS
The records for the Students' Union include Constitutions, minutes of meetings, invitations to Student Union sponsored events, a newsletter, elections, correspondence, handbook, and some fundraising records, and a Time Capsule put together to commemorate St. Jerome's 125th Anniversary, 1989-1990 (it was opened in February, 2016 during the 150th Anniversary celebrations).
The records are arranged in 9 series:
1) Constitutions;
2) Student Union Handbook;
3) Meetings;
4) Administrative records and correspondence;
5) Elections;
6) Newsletters;
7) Fundraising;
8) Social Events;
9) Award plaques
Descriptions for the series are available.
- Notes
- Accruals: Further accruals are expected.
The dates are not inclusive: there are records for 1964; 1970-1988-2001; 2009; and 2013-2019. - Date of Publication
- 1964
- Corporate Name(s)
- St. Jerome's University
- Collection
- St.Jerome’s College records
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.4694629930038 Longitude: -80.5461678844833
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- Physical Description
- 11 cm. of textual records; 4 plaques
- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Recommended Citation
- SJU Archives
- Location of Original
- 2-1-2-A20;
3-1-4-C47;
Oversize 04 - Terms of Use
- By permission of the Students' Union Office.
- Contact
- St. Jerome's University LibraryEmail:sjuarchives@uwaterloo.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:290 Westmount Rd. N.
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G3
St. Jerome's University is located in Waterloo, Ontario, and is situated in the University of Waterloo. It was founded as St. Jerome's College in 1865 by the Congregation of the Resurrection. In 1959, it was granted university status and changed its name to the University of St. Jerome's College. It has been federated with the University of Waterloo since 1960. In 1998, the name was officially changed to St. Jerome's University.
