March 23, 2006 64LCB#13
LEGISLATIVE
COUNCIL
Sponsored by: Jeremy
Jimenez Tri-Executive
Mebraht
Gebre-Michael Tri-Executive
Mike Monsalve Representative
Ashley
Moore President, Legislative Council
Katie
Wolf
First Vice-President,
Legislative Council
Chante Waters
Second Vice-President, Legislative Council
Windy
Alarcon Representative
Zenia
Cordova Representative
Stephanie
Jilling Speaker, Representative
Council
Feven
Netsanet Representative
Jessica
Bralish Senator
Cayla
Chavez-Murphy Senator
David
McAdams Senator
Max
Mascarenas Senator
Zoli
Williams Representative
Authored by: Robert
DuRay UCSU Environmental Director
Dave
Newport E-Center
Director
A Resolution
Eco-Social Leadership Vision Statement
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Resolution History
This Resolution presents a strategic vision for CU-Boulder that addresses pressing social equity and diversity challenges through environmental leadership. This is accomplished by channeling material, fiscal, and human resource assets derived from environmental conservation efforts into programs and practices that produce social equity results. One example of this concept is a current UCSU program that recycles computers, upgraded and refurbished by students, and places them in the homes of low-income, precollegiate people of color and underprivileged communities. This strategic approach, scaled up to a university-wide vision and applied broadly, will produce substantial social equity and diversity benefits for the university while stimulating significantly improved environmental conservation efforts and their resultant cost savings. This Resolution expresses UCSU’s desire to infuse this strategic approach into all facets of university life
The
Students have
also funded other environmental efforts through their underwriting of the
As CU-Boulder prepares to meet future needs related to increasing environmental, fiscal, and social challenges, UCSU will no doubt be called on to continue their support of these programs.
UCSU seeks to build on this legacy of cooperation by broadening the benefits of UCSU’s largesse to better address priority social issues. UCSU believes this can be done within the context of existing budgets cooperatively between UCSU and campus administration.
UCSU sees many such opportunities to channel material, fiscal, and human resources derived from campus environmental conservation efforts into positive social outcomes that benefit worthy people of color and other disadvantaged populations, help improve campus diversity, and improve community social justice and equity.
UCSU’s vision of sustainable social equity and environmental leadership for CU-Boulder will produce mutually beneficial results. By linking social outcomes to environmental conservation, greater participation in conservation programs will be stimulated. This returns more cost savings to the university which, in turn, enable more social equity enhancements, and so forth.
Accordingly, this Resolution seeks to partner with the administration to
cooperatively implement this vision into all appropriate facets of university operations.
Resolution
Summary
Whereas, CU-Boulder faces significant social equity and diversity challenges and is exploring all appropriate responses to meet these difficult issues, and
Whereas, UCSU and CU-Boulder have demonstrated leadership in environmental conservation efforts that have provided positive social equity outcomes, and
Whereas, UCSU and CU-Boulder also have
a strong history of social activism and leadership. This vision would
provide a framework for those working on social issues to partner with those
working on environmental issues and create strong unified movement that
incorporates many of the student groups and student leaders on campus, and
Whereas, UCSU and CU-Boulder environmental conservation efforts have returned considerable cost savings to the university and continue to do so, and
Whereas, the outreach dimension of this program provides a
significant recruiting tool to draw students of color as well as other
underprivileged students to the University, and
Whereas, adoption of this strategic vision and its articulation by UCSU and university leadership as a core principle governing all appropriate university operations is consistent with adopted values and would substantially increase the benefits and cost savings of ongoing environmental, social equity and diversity programs.
THEREFORE, BE IT ENACTED by the Legislative Council of the