Changing Culture of Student Services
Dozens of groups and projects that provide essential services to students and community members are severely underfunded, and Giving Day, among other funding sources like student fees, is not a permanent solution. UC Santa Cruz’s second Giving Day on March 6 raised over $500,000 through…
Student Fee Measures / Constitutional Amendments
Campus-specific student fees are proposed and voted through by way of a referendum during SUA elections. Stringent budget cuts have turned student fees into one mechanism to keep on-campus organizations, student facilities, student health and a number of other student services afloat. For most measures,…
The Easy Way Out
Since 2011, the Student Union Assembly (SUA) proposed three measures — one of which was voted on twice — and all of these failed to pass. A recent proposal from the SUA seems to suggest this is a reflection of student apathy and not necessarily SUA’s inability to market their measures or create resolutions reflecting the concerns of the student body.