Union members across New Zealand have the chance to decide who will lead the Tertiary Education Union for the next two years as voting opened earlier this week to elect a range of leadership positions, including the national president.Two vice-president roles have, however, been elected unopposed and in this week’s Tertiary Update both candidates share their priorities for the role.Sarah Proctor-Thomson from Nelson-Marlborough Institute of Technology is standing for women’s vice-president, and George Tongariro from Whitireia is standing as industrial and professional vice-president.There are also two candidates for the Te Tumu Arataki, Māori vice-president role. Bill Rogers, who is also standing for national president, and Hūhana (Susan) Watene from Unitec, have discussed with Tertiary Update their plans, if elected.In addition to the women’s vice-president and industrial and professional vice-president roles, there are two council positions that will be elected unopposed. The candidate for university academic representative is Cat Pausé from Massey and Rikke Betts from Te Rito Maioha will fill the non-university, or ITP, representative role.Eight women will be elected unopposed to the National Women’s Committee leaving three vacancies — two general/allied/professional staff representatives and one youth representative.The academic staff representatives on the Women’s Committee are Frederique Vanholsbeeck (University of Auckland); Lois France (Toi Ohomai); Louise MacKenzie (Eastern Institute of Technology) and Maryam Mariya (University of Waikato). The general/allied/professional staff representatives are Alana Dawson (Lincoln University) and Nicole Wallace (University of Auckland). Faaosofia (Sofia) Daly from University of Canterbury is the Pasifika representative and Jael Reiri from Eastern Institute of Technology is the Māori representative.Elected unopposed to the Industrial and Professional Committee will be women’s representative, Charlotte Ferry-Parker from the University of Waikato; non-university or ITP representative, Cheryl Smeaton from REAP and Māori representative, Sheeanda McKeagg from Massey.There are five unfilled vacancies on this committee for another women’s representative; another Māori representative; one Wānanga representative and two ITP general/allied/professional staff representatives.There is one vacancy on Te Toi Ahurangi and the other eleven positions have been filled by Te Tumu Āwhina representatives.