We welcome those with connections to St Anne’s MCR to become associate members. The membership entitles you to all MCR events and facilities and allows you to run for most Committee positions. The yearly membership fee is £70. Regulations regarding Associate memberships are listed in our Constitution (Section 2).
If you’re interested in obtaining an associate membership, please email president@st-annes-mcr.org along with an brief introduction of your connection to the MCR with your sponsor (preferably a current full St Anne’s MCR member) c.c’d .
Benefits of Associate Membership
- Associate members have the same voting rights as full members.
- Associate members are eligible for election to the MCR Committee provided that they occupy no more than half the posts minus one and that they cannot apply for positions on the Board of Executives (President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer).
- The following additional privileges are extended to associate members who are not already full members of St Anne’s College:
- Subscription to all MCR events (see how to Stay Connected with the MCR)
- Access to MCR facilities at the main College site – please have a University Card or obtain one from the Bodleian Library (see Apply for a Bodleian Reader card) and bring it to the Lodge after your membership is paid and approved to get card access to the MCR.
- Attendance to AGMs, voting in MCR elections, and holding MCR
- Subscription to the MCR mailing list
Eligibility
The following shall be eligible for associate membership of the MCR:
- All 4th year classicists and modern linguists who are members of St. Anne’s College.
- Such other persons as the MCR Committee may recommend and whom Governing Body shall deem to be of suitable standing for associate membership.
- Alumni of the MCR still in Oxford or at another College.
- Post-graduate students at Oxford not affiliated with another College or permanent hall who have some connection to St Anne’s College.
- Spouses or long-term committed partners of full MCR members.
Request & Approval
- Associate members will be approved on an individual basis such that it should remain the discretion of the sitting MCR Committee members to decide who should be allowed to join the MCR as an associate member and that the associate membership be granted for the maximum of one year.
- Pursuant to the annual review of associate membership status of individuals who have made successful applications, accounts of associate membership should be maintained by the Secretary and Treasurer to facilitate this review.
- Associate members wishing to re-apply for associate membership at the end of that year may do so and are subject to the above process.
- Associate members are liable to pay a yearly fee. The yearly fee will be set by the MCR Committee in consultation with the College Bursar at the final MCR Committee meeting in Trinity Term and will be reviewed annually (£70 yearly as of 2024).