Wonkhe SUs · The 2026 webinar box set
Bonus: How to become indispensable
Jim Dickinson on what SUs should do to protect their work and make themselves indispensable to the university in tough financial times. (Recorded in a previous year.)
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What we cover
- Why the unit of resource has fallen and squeezed university finances
- Treating the block grant as a fundraising strategy (including legacy giving)
- Where the SU sits on the university's Kübler-Ross change curve
- The two things senior managers notice: clubs/societies and representation
- Proving impact on recruitment, retention, completion and employability
- Officer reliability at committees and moving from irrelevant to part of the solution
Things to read
- SUs are educational delivery partners hiding in plain sight
- Coping with crisis means SUs have to adapt again
- Hard questions for SU boards in an era of structural decline
- University and Students' Union strategies: can two hearts beat as one?
- Should students' unions reach for the stars?
- Do students' unions waste money?
- Once there was a war on students' unions
- Students' union strategies
- Can SUs diversify their income streams?
- Our students are ambitious. They need an SU that channels that
- SUs should be partners – especially when times are tough
- What would an "assertive" partnership with a university look like?