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Student Affairs oversees areas that support student success including the Academic Advising Centre, access and disability resources, Griffins teams, kihêw waciston Indigenous Centre, new student orientations, Office of Human Rights, Equity and Inclusion, Office of Sexual Violence Prevention, Education and Response, and Wellness and Psychological Services.

The first student government was elected on October 8, 1971. Composed of two committees, one each from the Cromdale and Old Scona campuses, it was incorporated under the existing provincial legislation as a legal entity. A revised copy of the students’ union constitution was recorded in the Board of Governors meeting minutes from April 12, 1972 (appendix A).

The Students’ Association of MacEwan University (SAMU) is a non-profit organization working independently from MacEwan University, and is governed by elected student representatives. Students’ Council is the highest governing body within the Association. It is comprised of 14 Councillors, one Alberta College Campus delegate, and five Executive Committee members.

Terry Flannigan started at Grant MacEwan Community College in 1972, just after it opened, as the Chairman of the Arts and Sciences Department. He went on to become the Director of Academic Services in 1974, Director of College and Student Services in 1978, and then Vice President of Student Services 1984. Around 1975-76, he started the Grant MacEwan Foundation, to collect funding for scholarships and bursaries, becoming the Vice President and Executive Director for the foundation in 1987. He was presented with the MacEwan Medallion in 1989. In 1991, Terry moved on from the college to start a new career at the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB), before moving onto Okanagan College by helping kickstart the Okanagan Campus at the University of British Columbia.

Prior to his career at MacEwan, Terry held three degrees, and worked as an associate professor of Physical Education at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Alongside Chuck Day, he coached a high school football team in Saskatoon from 1962 to 1968. After his time at Grant MacEwan Community College, Terry, with his children, went on to create the Flannigan Family Scholarship in 1996, a scholarship awarded to student athletes with outstanding academic achievement.

The Resource Centre for Voluntary Organizations (RCVO) was created in the 1980s to provide educational and skill development opportunities, materials and referrals for Alberta's non-profit and charitable organizations. It was the only resource centre of its kind in Canada at the time, and the RCVO helped organzations with fundraising development, marketing skills and more. The Voluntary Sector Management Program was responsible for running the centre and collecting the resources.

Originally operating in the Seventh Street Plaza building, the RCVO was relocated to the City Centre Campus in October 1993, where it closed in the early 2000s.

The Musical Theatre diploma appears for the first time in the 1976-1977 academic calendar. In the 1978-1979 calendar, it appears as the Theatre Arts program with an option for a Technical Diploma. The department was housed at the Jasper Place / Centre for the Arts and Communications campus from 1981 until campus closure in 2017, when it moved to Allard Hall at City Centre Campus. At that time part of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Communications, the department consisted of two diploma programs: Theatre Arts, and Theatre Production. In 2022, it became part of the Bachelor of Fine Arts with the two majors Music Theatre Performance and Theatre Production.

The Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC) is an endowed institution within MacEwan University. It was created as a project development centre, operating through internal partnerships with faculties and external relationships with other universities in Canada. It was formally established and recognized on April 21, 1988 when the Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan Community College passed a motion officially establishing URDC as a component of the College. As an established centre within the institution, the director of URDC was in direct contact with MacEwan Vice-Presidents and faculty Deans, allowing for a high degree of transparency and communication. The URDC offices were initially located at the Jasper Place Campus, and later moved to the City Centre Campus.
In the years between 1987-1991, the URDC worked in the local community to bolster the arts, music, languages, business, and agriculture, focusing its efforts on developing the Ukrainian community within Canada’s borders as part of a broader national movement towards multiculturalism. This focus shifted in 1991 when the collapse of the Soviet Union brought on renewed interest from Ukrainian Canadians in returning to and developing Ukraine. Today, the Centre engages in initiatives that promote community development and intercultural dialogue. Through provincial, national and international projects, they link MacEwan to universities in Ukraine and to academic and cultural centres that are devoted to Ukraine, in Canada and abroad.

The Ukrainian Foundation for College Education (UFCE) was established in 1994 to raise, manage, and donate funds for URDC projects and programs. Its efforts have resulted in partnerships between MacEwan University and universities in Ukraine and Eastern Europe such as KyivMohyla Academy (NaUKMA), Ternopil State Medical University (TSMU), and the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU). In addition, decade-long partnerships were established with the International Institute of Business (IIB) and the Institute of Special Pedagogy (ISP) of the National Academy of Pedagogical (now Educational) Sciences.