University of Toronto Mississauga Students' Union
undergraduate students' union of the University of Toronto Mississauga
The Erindale College Student Union, operating as the University of Toronto Mississauga Students' Union (UTMSU), is the elected representative body for full-time undergraduates at the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM), a campus of the University of Toronto in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1983, it has been the official representative student committee since 2019.
Based in the campus' Student Centre, the UTMSU operates The Blind Duck pub and holds the authority to recognize student associations and clubs at the Mississauga campus.
The UTMSU is one of the five primary students' unions at the University of Toronto and maintains a partnership with the other four: the University of Toronto Students' Union, Scarborough Campus Students' Union, Association of Part-time Undergraduate Students at the University of Toronto, and University of Toronto Graduate Students' Union. It is also affiliated as local 109 of the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS).
History
The Erindale College Student Union was incorporated on August 2, 1983 as an informal representative organization for students at the University of Toronto's Mississauga campus, then known as Erindale College. At the time, the University of Toronto Students' Union (UTSU) was the official representative student committee (as outlined in the University of Toronto Act) for undergraduates at Erindale, as recognized by the University of Toronto Governing Council. The Erindale College Student Union entered an Associate Membership Agreement (AMA) with the UTSU in 2008, where Mississauga students would pay part of their tuition to the UTSU and part to the UTMSU. In 2018, each body voted independently to end the AMA, as the Mississauga campus had grown significantly and students sought their own representation. This separation became official that year and in 2019, the Governing Council passed a resolution to make the Erindale College Student Union, now operating as the University of Toronto Mississauga Students' Union, the campus's official representative student committee.
Operations
Student Centre
The UTMSU is based in the Mississauga campus Student Centre which opened in 1999.
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