The Ryerson Students’ Union (or RSU) is a body that represents Ryerson University’s full-time undergraduate and graduate students. All full-time students are required to be members and pay a levy. This money is used to fund student groups, events for students and campaigning.

The Board

The Board of Directors set the direction and the executive manage the day-to-day operations of the corporation. Students elect 2, 3, 4, or 5 members from each faculty, depending on the size of the faculty, to the board, in addition to student representatives from the University’s Senate, student groups, course unions and residence.

The Current Board of Directors

Executive Committee

Faculty of Arts

Ted Rogers School of Management

Faculty of Communications and Design

A students' union, student government, free student union, student senate, students' association, guild of students or government of student body is a student organization present in many colleges, universities, and high schools. In higher education, the students' union is often accorded its own building on the campus, dedicated to social, organizational activities, representation and academic support of the membership.

In the United States, student union many times only refers to a physical building owned by the university with the purpose to provide services for students without a governing body also referred to as a student activity center, although the Association of College Unions International (largely US-based) has hundreds of campus organizational members). Outside the US, student union and students' union refer to a representative body, as distinct from a student activity centre.

Purpose

Depending on the country: the purpose, assembly, method and implementation of the group might vary. Universally the purpose of students' union or student government is to represent fellow students in some fashion.

Student union may refer to: