student/campus life goals
- Increase opportunities to live off-campus as a junior
- How: Work with ResLife to look at restructuring the 3 year Housing Contract as student populations increase to allow more juniors to live off campus
- How: Create a expedited timeline for waves of off-campus permission
- Support performing arts groups by advocating for more performance/practice spaces around campus and space renovations for existing spaces
- How:
- Advocate for increased funding from administration for the arts by demonstrating need
- Involve students in the planning for the new Performing Arts Center
- Increase accessibility to department performance spaces for all student performance groups
- Allow students to use department spaces such as the Granoff Recording Studio and LEEDS Theater while establishing accountability for the spaces by utilizing a sign up
- Have a UCS liaison visit rehearsals and practices for each student organization once a month to be more attune to the needs of performing art groups
- How:
- Increase restoration/relaxation spaces on campus by creating spaces for napping, prayer, and meditation in every major building and library
- How:
- Meet with Leah Van Wey, the Associate Provost for Academic Space to allocate spaces in major buildings and library to set aside for restoration and relaxation spaces
- Currently Done:
- Compiled research showing the benefits of relaxation and restoration spaces a well as models adopted by other schools, companies, and organizations into a proposal
- Surveyed students on which major buildings they would like to have greater access to restoration and relaxation spaces
- How:
- Prioritize continued dorm renovations and accessibility improvements
- Support the work of ResCouncil and consistently check in with the university to make sure plans with concrete goals and timelines have been created are being kept up to date
- Extend dining hours, expand composting, and create a system to convert meal swipes into points
- Support student-group sustainability initiatives to become a net-zero emissions university
- How: Modeling 85 Waterman which uses recycled rainwater on a daily basis, expand recycled rainwater use to all buildings on campus
- Advocate for and provide greater support for sustainability tours that include green infrastructures and efficiency programs
- Support environmental groups such as emPOWER, Environmental Justice, Food Recovery Network, Market Shares Program, Green Events, and more by providing greater access to resources and funding
- Use donated hygiene products from Clean Break program to source and shelve hygiene closets in each residential hall
- Support Brown Beekeeping Society, Brown Animal Rights Coalition, Brown Animal Assisted Therapy and other animal rights groups with adequate resources and funding for their work
- Create more green spaces and better wayfinding around campus
- Increase spaces for low-income students and all students to have recreational spaces
- Design a proposal for ResLife that focuses on creating a more game room-style environment in larger dorm lounges
- The proposal will likely include models adopted by other universities and will push for ResLife to allocate funding for amenities such as foosball tables
- The amenities that the proposal will recommend will be established through surveying students
- The proposal will likely include models adopted by other universities and will push for ResLife to allocate funding for amenities such as foosball tables
- Design a proposal for ResLife that focuses on creating a more game room-style environment in larger dorm lounges
- Require all students in elected positions including UCS, UFB, and CCB to get the Campus of Consent trainings
- How: Partner with SAPE in order to make this happen and put forward an amendment to the UCS bylaws to ensure the organization and its members are continually held to this standard
- Improve identity-based and trauma-informed training for DPS
- How: Create workshops that are student focused and include student organizations in the workshops
- Improve lighting around campus for increased safety
- How: Better publicize DPS lighting surveys ‒ the current evaluation of University lighting needs ‒ to better gauge locations where students want more extensive lighting
- Improve gym facilities across campus including the Bear’s Lair and Keeney Gym
- How: First, gauge student input with surveys regarding specific machine preferences, facilities improvements, etc.
- Write a budget proposal to the Office of Residential Life to secure funding from ResLife budget to improve these facilities, noting the data collected from previous surveys, and communicate with Facilities Management to receive support with scope work & cost evaluations
- Request the Summer Projects Fund for gym improvements