{{Short description|Students' union of Liverpool John Moores University}} {{Primary sources|date=January 2024}} {{Redirect-distinguish-text|Liverpool Students' Union|the [[Liverpool Guild of Students]], the students' union of the University of Liverpool}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2015}} {{Use British English|date=June 2015}} {{Infobox Students Union | image = Students union reception slb.jpg | established = 1992 ''(as Liverpool Students' Union)'' | institution = [[Liverpool John Moores University]] | president = Jasmine Howard | other_officers = {{plainlist| *Shaquita Corry<br><small>Vice President Education</small> *Alexandria Jones<br><small>Vice President Community and Wellbeing</small> *Clodagh McErlean<br><small>Vice President Activities</small> }} | location = Student Life Building, 10 Copperas Hill, [[Liverpool]], [[England]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Contact us @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union |url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/about-us/contactus |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.jmsu.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> | members = c. 27,000 total | affiliated = [[National Union of Students (United Kingdom)|National Union of Students]] | homepage = {{url|http://jmsu.co.uk}} | union_logo=John Moores SU logo.svg | logo_size=50px }}
'''John Moores Students' Union''' ('''JMSU'''){{efn|officially the '''Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union'''; formerly the '''Liverpool Students' Union''' (''LSU'' or '''LiverpoolSU''')}} is the [[students' union]] of [[Liverpool John Moores University]] (LJMU) in [[Liverpool]], [[England]]; membership is automatic upon enrolment within the university.
The students' union currently represents around 27,000 students studying at LJMU, located primarily in [[Liverpool]]. The current president is Jasmine Howard, who was elected for the 2023–2024 term.
==History==
JMSU is a [[students' union]] for the purposes of the [[Education Act 1994]]. Under section 67 of the Act, all students of the university are by law automatically members of the union unless they deliberately opt out; the role of JMSU is to represent this body of membership.
The union operates from 5 sites across the university, with its central base located within the John Foster Building.
In May 2014, JMSU moved from their main base at the Haigh Building to the nearby John Foster Building and a number of hub sites across campus to become better placed for [[LJMU]] students. In 2021,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Take a look around Copperas Hill |url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/news/articles/2021/9/13/take-a-look-around-copperas-hill |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.ljmu.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref> JMSU moved from the John Foster Building, to the Student Life Building, located on the university's new development on Copperas Hill.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Copperas Hill|url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/estates-development/copperas-hill|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.ljmu.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Your campus |url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/discover/your-student-experience/your-campus |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.ljmu.ac.uk |language=en}}</ref>
==Membership== The students' union currently has 3 membership grades which includes: * '''Full Members''' - Students currently studying at [[Liverpool John Moores University]] and the elected Student Officers. * '''Strategic Members''' - Trustees who are not full members, the chief executive officer and JMSU staff * '''Associate Members''' - Former full members who support the union and apply for life membership The students' union represents the 27,000 students of the 2023/24 intake of the university.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Officer Team @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union |url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/student-voice/student-officer-team |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.jmsu.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
==Location==
John Moores Students' Union (JMSU) operates from 5 sites across the university, with its central base being within the John Foster Building. In May 2014, JMSU moved from their main base at the Haigh Building to the nearby John Foster Building and a number of hub sites across campus to become better placed for [[LJMU]] students.<ref>{{Cite web|title=LiverpoolSU is moving @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union|url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/articles/liverpoolsu-is-moving|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.jmsu.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
The Haigh Building was named after long serving Union secretary, Sheila Haigh who retired in 1983, the year the building opened. The site was demolished <ref>{{Cite web|last=Media|first=Insider|title=Go-ahead for 355-bed student scheme|url=https://www.insidermedia.com/news/north-west/go-ahead-for-355-bed-student-scheme|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Insider Media Ltd|language=en}}</ref> and now houses a student accommodation block,<ref>{{Cite web|last=Media|first=Insider|title=Go-ahead for 355-bed student scheme|url=https://www.insidermedia.com/news/north-west/go-ahead-for-355-bed-student-scheme|access-date=2021-01-30|website=Insider Media Ltd|language=en}}</ref> alongside a new School of Education building for the university, completed in 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|title=School of Education Building|url=http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/about-us/estates-development/school-of-education-building|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.ljmu.ac.uk|language=en}}</ref>
Within the John Foster Building can be found the Union's central offices, where a number of departments are based:
* Student Opportunities & Development: a team focused on the university and union's sports teams and societies, volunteering opportunities and community engagement activity. * Student Voice & Campaigns: a team here to ensure that student feel supported in their time at university, with a dedicated academic advice service, representation functions and support for elected student officers. * Marketing, Events & Business Development: a team that ensures students know what is going on in the university, union and in the wider city through marketing, communications and working with businesses in the city to provide large-scale events. The JMSU Freshers' Fair typically takes place at the [[Liverpool Arena|M&S Bank Arena]], where over 12,000 students attend each year.
Also within the John Foster Building is LJMU Student Radio, the union's central services team and the union's media sales trading company, Liverpool Student Media Limited.
==Governance== ===Executive student officers=== The union is headed by an executive committee consisting of four student officers, who take a sabbatical year to work full-time for the union and to represent students at [[Liverpool John Moores University]]. They are responsible for the decision making and running of the union, however are answerable to the whole student body.
For the 2023/24 academic year and elected in March 2023, the elected student officers are:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Student Officer Team @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union |url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/student-voice/student-officer-team |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.jmsu.co.uk |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=How we work @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union |url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/about-us/how-we-work |access-date=2024-01-09 |website=www.jmsu.co.uk |language=en}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; width:50%" !Student Office !Incumbent<ref name=":0" /> |- | President | Jasmine Howard |- | Vice President for Education | Shaquita Corry |- | Vice President for Community and Wellbeing | Alexandria Jones |- | Vice President for Activities | Clodagh McErlean |}
===Board of trustees=== The Board of Trustees are responsible for overseeing the management and administration of the union, making the financial decisions, responding to student demands and ensuring activities are within union self-interest and remain within the law. The board meets twelve times each year and consists of 12 trustees: 4 elected student officers, 4 student trustees and 4 community trustees. <ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Trustee Board @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union|url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/what-we-do-how-we-work/our-trustee-board|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.jmsu.co.uk|language=en}}</ref>
On behalf of the board, the chair and vice-chair appoint the union chief executive, who is responsible for its functioning on a day-to-day basis alongside union staff. The chair of the board is ex officio the President
=== Constitution === JMSU's constitution establishes the union and outlines the ways in which members can engage in the union, and the procedures the union undertake to make it better whilst remaining democratic.
The current constitution was adopted in 2016.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Our Constitution @ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union|url=https://www.jmsu.co.uk/constitution|access-date=2021-01-30|website=www.jmsu.co.uk|language=en}}</ref> It is approved by the JMSU Board of Trustees and regulated by the LJMU Board of Governors.
==Controversy== In 2018, the union was forced to introduce guidelines on fancy dress after a society held a homeless-themed party. The Trampoline Society had held these parties, named "[[tramp]] night", annually, one of which was reported on in the student newspaper Liverpool Tab in 2018. Students at the party reportedly wore ripped clothes, painted their faces to make them appear dirty, and wore signs that had sentences such as "spare change?", "meet me at the bar", and "give me your change and I'll change your night".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Perraudin |first=Frances |date=2018-10-24 |title=Liverpool students apologise for homeless-themed fancy dress |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/24/liverpool-john-moores-university-student-society-homeless-themed-fancy-dress |access-date=2024-09-13 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-21 |title=Liverpool John Moores’ Trampoline society host ‘tramp’ themed social |url=https://thetab.com/uk/liverpool/2018/10/21/liverpool-john-moores-trampoline-society-hosted-a-tramp-themed-social-51355 |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=University of Liverpool |language=en-GB}}</ref>
In 2018, news of these annual parties became widespread and drew a lot of criticism. The word '[[tramp]]' is a common slang term for homeless people in the [[United Kingdom]] and is sometimes viewed as derogatory.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Definition of 'tramp' |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/tramp#:~:text=Tramp%20is%20an%20insulting%20word,to%20have%20many%20sexual%20partners.&text=What%20is%20this%20an%20image%20of%3F |access-date=2024-09-13}}</ref>
When approached by the student newspaper Liverpool Tab, the official society itself stated, “We realise now, that our annual choice of costume could cause offence and are sorry for any upset this may have caused, it was never our intention. We will of course be changing our annual fancy dress theme and once again apologise to anyone who may have found this inappropriate.”<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-10-21 |title=Liverpool John Moores’ Trampoline society host ‘tramp’ themed social |url=https://thetab.com/uk/liverpool/2018/10/21/liverpool-john-moores-trampoline-society-hosted-a-tramp-themed-social-51355 |access-date=2024-09-13 |website=University of Liverpool |language=en-GB}}</ref> The John Moores Students' Union started an investigation stated that they "do not endorse fancy dress that could be deemed as offensive or discriminatory". The union then announced that it would introduce guidelines regarding fancy dress and potential inappropriate or discriminatory behaviour regarding this or themes for parties hosted by societies.
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==External links== *[http://www.jmsu.co.uk/ Liverpool John Moores University Students' Union website] *[http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/ Liverpool John Moores University] *[http://www.liverpoolstudenthomes.org/Accommodation/ Liverpool Student Homes] *[https://www.sglstudenthomes.co.uk/ SGL Student Homes]
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