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The operations of the NUS-USI are overseen by its president, officers and board. A number of part-time student officers also fill the roles of further education officer, campaigns and communications officer, welfare officer, and international students' officer. Autonomous liberation campaigns also
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Increasing student activism in the late 1960s led to a moving away from a model of Student Representative Councils (SRCs) as a system of governance towards the creation of students' unions and more participatory "general meetings", accessible to all students. Students' unions also took on a more
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Together with local students' unions, NUS-USI now provides a range of services, including campaigns on education, welfare and citizenship, as well as infrastructure and support for the individual students' unions. NUS-USI celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2012.
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in 1897. Student representatives from Queen's University subsequently played roles in founding the National Union of Students in 1922 and the Irish Students Association, which stimulated the formation of the Union of Students in Ireland in 1959.
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elect part-time officers who fill the roles of disabled students officer, women's officer, LGBT+ officer, trans students' officer and BAEM (black, Asian and ethnic minority) officer.
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in March 2018, NUS-USI introduced two new part-time student officer roles in the form of an international students' officer and a trans students' officer.
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Following the model of Scottish Universities, a Students' Representative Council (SRC) was formally established at
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NUS-USI was involved in the Student Housing Association Co-op (SHAC) which was founded by Ray Cashell in 1977.
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in Northern Ireland. As of 2018, NUS-USI represented approximately 200,000 students in the region.
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campaigning role, and Northern Irish student activists such as
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Students at an affiliated college are members of both national
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