Flavio & Michael's Fall Semester Vision

Flavio & Michael’s USGA Vision

Flavio Bravo & Michael Fasullo The President & Vice President of USGA present their vision for the 2014-2015 Unified Student Government Association term.

Creating opportunities for students to be more involved in and more aware of the decisions being made here at our university Bring back the State of the Students Address (October 2014) Organize the 1st Annual Board of Trustees Luncheon, giving students the opportunity to sit down with the big decision makers at our university Establish bi-weekly meetings where students will have the opportunity to meet and talk with the Dean of Students and VP of Student Development twice a month [Tea with the Dean and VP] Create the opportunity for students to meet with their student body President and Vice President by tabling twice every month

Guiding our USGA committees to make meaningful benefits for students, while ensuring these benefits are relevant to student issues Academic Affairs Committee •

Work with department heads and individual professors to partner with the nonprofit company, OpenStax, to offer students the opportunity to pay little to no cost for textbooks •

Collaborate with deans and department heads to allow future students the ability to schedule the times when they want to take their final exams Facilities & Transportation Committee •

Create an opportunity for students to ride collectively to the airport at much cheaper rates •

Discuss with administrators ways student organizations without designated office space can obtain storage space Justice Committee •

Create an ad-hoc committee to look into our university’s investments in the coal/fossil fuel industry Residents, Commuters, & Dining Committee •

Work with the Department of Off-Campus Student Life to ensure that commuter students are getting access to the resources they deserve Safety & Wellness Committee

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Collaborate with Loyola's Campus Safety and the Aldermen of our host communities to gauge the community about how our neighbors feel about expanding the blue light system to off-campus locations •

Work with our Dean of Students to create a marketing campaign that makes students aware of the Behavior Concern Team •

Create a joint effort with Loyola's Campus Safety and the Chicago Police Department to hold one CAPS meeting a semester on campus

Creating a Chief Community Relations Officer as an executive USGA position The Chief Community Relations Officer will be responsible for building and maintaining relationships between the university and the city of Chicago. Specifically, the CCRO will be responsible for creating unique and innovative ideas on how to connect the Loyola undergraduates to the local Rogers Park/Edgewater communities in order to make sure that our students are true neighbors to our host communities.

The CCRO will have the opportunity to sit on a local council or board to ensure that he/she is informed of the on goings of our host communities.

Ensuring that while we are striving to create positive change, we will not lose focus of our Mission as a Jesuit Catholic University Justice Committee •

Continue to support undocumented students by having one member from the committee sit on the University Collaborative on Undocumented Students Community Outreach Committee •

Collaborate with Student Diversity & Multicultural Affairs Office to create a diversity fair, highlighting the various organizations across our campus •

Work to showcase our student organizations through public performances at the Fall Organizations Fair Executive Branch •

Work with Community Service & Action and Campus Ministry Offices to create Student Service Organizations, which will be unique from sororities and fraternities