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Accomplishments
Student Union has accomplished many tangible improvements to the daily experience of undergraduate students. Below is a partial list of recent accomplishments. For more information, please refer to the Student Union blog.
- Publication of the undergraduate student handbook, Bearings
- Resolution calling for the creation of a GLBTQ resource center and a staff coordinator responsible for GLBTQ involvement on campus
- Contracting of the Ruckus Network on campus to provide students with a free tool of downloading music and movies
- Implementation of The Link (link to The Link), a campus events calendar, student group management system and personal organizer for students.
- Placement of solar panels on buildings to increase sustainable energy usage on campus
- Resoultion calling for the implementation of the Campus Card account allowing students to add money to their Student ID card to purchase food on campus, products from the campus store, laundry, vending and other things.
- Provision of free copies of the New York Times, USA Today, and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch availably daily at several locations on campus
- Development of Final Friday, a day devoted to large-scale campus programming before finals week
- Addition of a second office in Umrath Hall to serve as a student group resource center with offices, storage space, and business supplies.
- Advocacy for wireless internet access available in residential dorms, to be available in Fall 2007
- Advocacy for mixed gender housing to allow upperclass males and females to live in the same suite, available in Fall 2008
- Funding of the Assembly Series, a weekly lecture series that brings high-profile speakers to campus each week. Past speakers have included Kurt Vonnegut, Seth McFarlane, Bill Nye the Science Guy, Cornel West, Ann Coulter, Alan Lightman, Mo Rocca, Thomas Friedman, Al Franken, Ted Kennedy, Jr., Michael Kimmel, and Paul Rusesabagina
- Allocation of $120,000 over 2 year from 2008-2009 for the renovation of the Athletic Complex.
- Outsourcing of student online communication tools to Microsoft Live@Edu beginning Fall 2009.
- Creation of the Chipotle Challenge program that coordinates Chipotle sponsorship of Athletic games and other big campus events.
- Formation of the Student Technology Advisory Committee.
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