Executive Committee Report - February 25, 2025

The executive committee has issued the following report for the February 18, 2025 Assembly Meeting:

1. Notices to the Assembly

   1. Thank you to the Black Caucus for taking their time to come speak at an Executive meeting. It was really insightful and we appreciated all we learned from their presentation.

2. Communications Activities

   1. The ACE will be going out on March 9th.

   2. All submissions for the April ACE will be due Friday March 21st. Please do not wait until the last minute to make these submissions.

   3. If you would like to be featured on Instagram for Black History Month or have a Black leader on campus to nominate, please fill out THIS FORM.

   4. If you have an event or special CSG related work coming up, please fill out THIS FORM to do an Instagram takeover.

3. Programs and Events

   1. Thank you to everyone who attended InclusiviTEA! It was a wonderful event with speakers from our own CSG community. This event will be a monthly one so please keep an eye out for the March event.

   2. Thank you to everyone who helped make Go Blue Goes Green possible. We had over 100 attendants and so many positive insights about the popular event. The remaining donation will be split between a local women’s and children’s center and the PlanetBlue Thrift store.

   3. The Women’s History Month Brunch will be Saturday, March 15 from 9:30am-12pm in the Michigan Union. To nominate a women student leader to attend the conference please fill out THIS FORM by February 28th.

   4. World Bites, the cultural food fair will be happening March 27th 5- 8 PM. There will be 2 waves of student orgs handing out food with performances in between the waves. Currently there are about 9 organizations confirmed and are hoping to finalize more by the end of this week. If you would like to volunteer, please sign up using THIS SHEET. 

   5. Operation Graduation form is closing this week and we are projected to fulfill all of the gown requests. We currently have about 140 undergraduate gowns and 70 graduate gowns. Once again partnering with Barnes & Noble we are excited to have this program up and running

   6. A potential program for graduation photos is in the works with michgrads. We are hoping to subsidize mini photoshoot sessions for low income students who may not have the opportunity to take graduation photos otherwise. The initial meeting has been set and more details on the program to come.

4. Policy Team

   1. The Policy Team has received information about a possible opening to improve laundry pricing and potential laundry programs in 2027. They will make sure to compile all information for following administrations to continue in these efforts. The housing red flags informational video went up on our Instagram today! Additionally, further meetings with the AATU and MCards are being planned for when we return from Spring Break. Our Director and Deputy Director of Policy will be attending Big Ten on the Hill along with SGC Reaser. Priorities for this conference include housing, increasing federal funding for affordable student housing, food insecurity, SNAP reconfigurations that increase student eligibility and access, transportation, fleet modernization and funding focusing on Saferides (late night transportation), Financial Aid, continuing support for federal financial aid loans and Pell Grants, campus safety, Cleary Act reconfigurations focusing on suicide and hazing, health, telehealth expansions, and encouraging federally funded universities to accept Medicaid. Please connect with our Director Lidia if you have any questions.

   2. The DEAC is working on the guidelines for the Disability Advocates and Caregivers Scholarship and have a meeting with SSD to discuss logistics. The March InclusiviTEA will be featuring the topic of sports and how that has impacted the disability community and will feature the Adaptive Sports Program!

   3. SMPSEC will be hosting a Don’t Leave it up to Luck Event on March 12th from 1:30-3:30 in Mason Hall. We are partnering with Students for Reproductive Rights which is an org through Planned Parenthood that is known for amazing resources relating to safe sex, abortion rights/access, and reproductive resources, as well as Students Abasing Domestic Abuse.

   4. The Chief Diversity Officer is working on implementing anti-racism training to the first year orientation programming. Initial steps have been taken and we are hoping to meet with the Director of New Student Programs about this initiative. The demographic survey will be sent out shortly after spring break as it is a required report. Please keep your eye out and fill it out as soon as possible.

5. Meeting Headlines

   1. Mario and Jake had their weekly meetings with Dean Jones on 2/19 and 2/24 as well as a meeting with DPSS Leadership on 2/19.

   2. Mario spoke at the Regents’ Meeting on 2/20. Please find the recording here (~43:30-50:00). He also met with the Faculty Senate Chair on 2/24.

   3. Mario and Jake presented to faculty on the Student Relations Affairs Committee on 2/21 on our agenda and campus social climate.

   4. They also began their student organization outreach with the first meeting on 2/23

If you have any questions, want more details on meeting headlines, or would like to meet with the President or Vice President, please contact Chief of Staff to the President Joyce Jung (joycedj@umich.edu)