{{Short description|Students' union in the UK}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox students union | name = University of Cambridge Graduate Union | image = | motto = | established = 1955 | president = | vice president = | honorary secretary = | general secretary = | treasurer = | executive officers = | sabbs = | other sabbs = | trustees = | location = Cambridge, England | members = | affiliated = | free_label = | free = | homepage = {{URL|www.gradunion.cam.ac.uk}} }}
The '''University of Cambridge Graduate Union''' was the official graduate [[students' union]] at the [[University of Cambridge]], [[England]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/gradstud/current/new/union.html |title=University of Cambridge: Board of Graduate Studies — Graduate Union (GU) | access-date=2009-11-03 }}</ref> Until 2020, it was responsible for supporting graduate students and advocating issues at the [[University of Cambridge]] via University committees and beyond.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.gradunion.cam.ac.uk/gradunion/#contact |title=Graduate Union. University of Cambridge |access-date=2009-11-03}}</ref> In November 2019, students voted by referendum to dissolve both the Graduate Union and [[Cambridge University Students' Union]] to form one student union, Cambridge SU.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cusu.co.uk/2019/11/22/cambridge-students-voted-yes-to-a-new-single-students-union/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517025922/https://www.cusu.co.uk/2019/11/22/cambridge-students-voted-yes-to-a-new-single-students-union/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 May 2021|title=Cambridge Students voted yes to a new single students’ union – CUSU|website=CUSU|language=en-GB|access-date=2019-11-22}}</ref> The Union dissolved in July 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cambridgesu.co.uk/news/article/jobs/Welcome-we-are-your-new-Students-Union/|title=Welcome, we are your new Students' Union!|website=Cambridge SU|language=en-US|access-date=2020-07-13}}</ref>
The University of Cambridge Graduate Union was the first students' union in Britain catering mostly to graduates.{{citation needed|date=June 2010}} It published an annual Handbook with useful information on adjusting to life as a Cambridge graduate student, an online 'Alternative Prospectus' of the University of Cambridge (mostly for new members arriving in Michaelmas Term) and a weekly bulletin circulated to members throughout the year.{{citation needed|date=June 2010}}
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==External links== *[http://www.gradunion.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Graduate Union website] *[https://www.gradunion.cam.ac.uk/about/history/historical-presidents University of Cambridge Graduate Union List of Presidents]
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