The Student Union Council (SUC) is the peak decision-making body of the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU). They have the same types of duties and legal responsibilities as the Board of an organisation or company and the SUC members receive specific training and professional support to help them fulfil their legal and financial responsibilities.
The SUC is where your 27 elected representatives decide on events, activities, services, and campaigns to provide for students at RMIT. The SUC also makes the decisions about how RUSU runs as an organisation. RUSU is truely a 100% student run organisation.
SUC meetings happen monthly, with additional special meetings held as required. The dates for the current Student Union Council are included in the table below. Unless otherwise posted, SUC meetings start at 6pm.
Pre-Covid the SUC meeting have traditionally been held at one of the RUSU run meeting rooms, however where Covid restrictions are in place meetings are online.
Any RMIT student is able to attend meetings of the SUC. Like any group organising an event, RUSU needs advance RSVPs so we can plan appropriately.
To notify RUSU that you wish to attend an SUC meeting you simply need to email the RUSU General Secretary at least 24 hours in advance of the meetings start time at jarred.armitage@rmit.edu.au. Advance notice is required to allow RUSU to manage any logistics. E.g. on-campus meeting rooms have strict capacity limits (which are even more important that ever with Covid rules) and pre-registration at on-campus events is also a requirement of RMIT Covid Safety plans.
The attendance of your elected representatives at these meetings is recorded below.
Table Key:
P | Present at meeting |
AP | Absent with apology |
A | Absent |
LQ | Left during the proceedings of meeting causing the meeting to lose quorum* |
NA | There has been a subsequent change of the RUSU representative and therefore these dates are not applicable to the stated rep. |
*Quorum is the minimum numbers of people needed for a meeting to continue and make decisions. If someone leaves mid-meeting and causes a meeting to have to end early because they have lost quorum this section will be labelled LQ and be shaded red).
Student Representative Name | Position | 19 Oct 2020 | 27 Nov 2020 | 16 Dec 2020 | 12 Jan 2021 | 17 Feb 2021 | 17 Mar 2021 | 21 Apr 2021 | 19 May 2021 | 16 Jun 2021 | 21 Jul 2021 | 10 Aug 2021 | 27 Sep 2021 | 20 Oct 2021 |
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Akshay Jose | SUC President | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Jarred Armitage | SUC General Secretary | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | AP | P |
Liam Thompson | Communications Officer | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Siheng Luo | Activities Officer | P | AP | P | P | P | AP | P | P | P | A | A | P | P |
Vineet Prabhakar | Clubs & Societies Officer | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Karan Hemang Mehta | Education Officer | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Chrishell (Jingyi) Yin | Welfare Officer | P | P | P | P | P | A | A | AP | A | A | A | P | A |
Zhichen (Simon) Tang | Sustainability Officer | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | P | P | P | P | A | P | P |
Joe (Peiji) Zhou | International Officer | P | P | P | P | A | P | P | P | A | A | A | A | P |
Sribabu Nagulapalli | Postgraduate Officer | P | A | A | A | A | A | P | P | AP | P | P | A | A |
Matte Howard | Queer Officer | P | P | P | P | P | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Angelique Maloney | Queer Officer | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P |
Kimberly Lovegrove | Indigenous Officer | P | A | P | A | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Harsheet Chhabra | Women's Officer | P | A | A | A | A | P | P | P | AP | P | P | AP | P |
Chris Giddings | General Representative | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P | A | P | AP | P | P |
Cormac Mills Ritchard | General Representative | P | P | A | A | P | AP | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Yin Ma | General Representative | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | P | A | P | P |
Mark Morante | General Representative | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Meghana Balasaheb Karande | General Representative | P | P | P | AP | AP | P | AP | AP | P | P | P | P | A |
Sheldon Gait | Vocational Education Officer | P | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Viditi Kodwani | City Coordinator | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | P | A | A | A | A | P | P |
Adam Steiner | City Representative | P | P | P | P | P | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Ayesha Ahmed | Bundoora Coordinator | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | P | P | P | A | P |
Santhipriya George | Bundoora East Representative | P | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | A | P |
Jerome Maravé | Bundoora West Representative | P | A | AP | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P |
Ambika Abhinandini | Brunswick Coordinator (Formerly Brunswick Representative) | P | P | P | P | A | AP | P | P | P | P | P | AP | P |
Ravi Jain | Brunswick Representative | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | AP | P | P | AP | P | P |
Krystal (Xiaoyue) Gui | Former Sustainability Officer | P | AP | P | P | P | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Stephanie Flores-Tapia | Former Bundoora Coordinator | P | A | A | P | A | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Chetana Singh | Former City Coordinator | AP | AP | P | P | P | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Raveena Deshmukh | Former Brunswick Coordinator | P | A | A | AP | A | P | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Natasha Kendall | Former Bundoora Coordinator | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | P | AP | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |
Huiting Chen | General Representative | P | P | P | P | P | AP | A | A | NA | NA | NA | NA | NA |