priorities for financial support
- Design a system for students with extra meal swipes to donate to students in need to completely reduce food insecurity on campus
- What This Would Look Like:
- Swipe stations similar to print stations to allow student with leftover meal swipes to upload to a database
- Students in need would then register for access to the swipe station database and would then swipe their cards whenever they are in need of food
- Allows for anonymity for students in need
- Swipe stations similar to print stations to allow student with leftover meal swipes to upload to a database
- Work with CIS and Dining Services to create this program and infrastructure for the software
- What This Would Look Like:
- Implement need-blind admissions for international students
- Coordinate a fly-in program for UFLi students
- Support UFLi students by providing more resources and advising for academic and financial concerns
- Hire a group of tutors that work specifically in the UFLi center
- Hire a group of tutors that work specifically in the UFLi center
- Grant university legal/financial support for undocumented and DACA students
- Work closely with the Brown Immigrant Rights Coalition to support their work and aid them in holding the University Administration accountable in its mission to support undocumented and DACA students
- Ensure that the University keeps the UFunds website updated and accessible to ensure that unexpected financial stresses for undocumented and DACA students can be overcome and open communication with Vernicia Elie, Assistant Dean of the College for Financial Advising to address any shortcomings of the current programs
- Work closely with the Brown Immigrant Rights Coalition to support their work and aid them in holding the University Administration accountable in its mission to support undocumented and DACA students
- Increase accessibility to Greek Life by implementing subsidies
- There should not be any program on campus that is inaccessible to students because of cost barriers
- There should not be any program on campus that is inaccessible to students because of cost barriers
- Eliminate the Summer Earnings Expectation from the Financial Aid Package
- Work with the URC to further lower the Summer Earnings Expectation and look to completely eliminate it in the future
- Work with the URC to further lower the Summer Earnings Expectation and look to completely eliminate it in the future
- Make laundry and printing services free for all students
- Fund student buy/sell exchange forum for textbooks to increase affordability of books
- Eliminate textbook cost for students with no parent contribution
- In the meantime, work with students who created brownswap.com to help publicize and increase resources to their buy/sell exchange forum
- Advocate for the textbook purchasing program that allows students to swipe to make sure that everyone has the books they need for class
- Students with financial packages that include no and low parent contribution get free textbook rentals and can purchase for a nominal fee if they wish to keep them
- Students with financial packages that include no and low parent contribution get free textbook rentals and can purchase for a nominal fee if they wish to keep them
- Eliminate textbook cost for students with no parent contribution
- Reduce food insecurity by expanding food closets around campus
- Work with the Bear Market Food Exchange to add food closets in more spaces around campus
- Work with the Bear Market Food Exchange to add food closets in more spaces around campus