Officers
CUSU holds elections annually for 6 or 7 full-time officers, several part-time officers and a number of delegates (5 in 2011, with the President making the 6th delegate ex officio) to the National Union of Students (NUS) Annual Conference.
The full-time officers take a one year sabbatical from their studies (or directly after they have graduated) and are:
- President
- Access and Funding Officer
- Coordinator
- Education Officer
- Welfare & Rights Officer (joint with the Graduate Union)
- Women's Officer
- Ethical Affairs Officer (only when funding is available)
There are also five "Autonomous Campaigns" of the CUSU, which are semi-independent bodies dealing with a particular subset of students. They are:
- CUSU LBGT (Lesbian, Bisexual, Gay and Transgender)
- CUSU International
- Black Students Campaign
- CUSU Women's Union (the Chair of which is the sabbatical Women's Officer)
- Disabled Students' Liberation Campaign
The chairs of the autonomous campaigns may only be elected by members of that campaign.
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