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Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

1. Mandatory diversity training for all IU faculty, auxiliary staff

2. Increase visibility, awareness & structural presence of gender neutral restrooms
3. Increase diversity in recruitment efforts within the Office of Admissions
4. Implement IUPUI’s Racial Literacy Project into IUSG
5. Student Organization Multi-Ethnic Racial Group Education
6. Create feedback process with students with disabilities to the Office of Capital
Planning and Facilities Services
7. Make campus more accessible for students with disabilities/ push for inclusive
online/ digital learning and work environments

Emotional Wellness & Mental Health

1. Establish Student Advisory Board in CAPS
2. Support students as IU returns to in-person in the fall
3. Encourage the Growth of Recreational Sports
4. Diversify CAPS staff, resources and programming with 7 new counselors
5. Student organization mental health education
6. Enforce research into the consequences of inaccessible mental health
counseling at a PWI

Basic Needs & Financial Support

1. Address and oppose unpaid internships
2. Support and uplift student workers through suitable experiences and safety
training
3. Advocate with RAs for their mistreatment by Residential Programming Services
4. Promote food security and promote programs addressing food insecurity

Academic Affairs & Professional Development

1. Reform the Academic Advising experience to integrate inclusive protocols
2. Scrap attendance Policies
3. Implement flexible in-person, online and hybrid course models into Fall 2021
4. Seniors automatic enrollment into waitlisted courses needed for graduation
Civic Engagement & Public Service
1. Expanding the Indiana Lifeline Law to protect the person in need of medical
assistance
2. Student Council member that represents IU students on Bloomington City
Council
3. Coalition building/student unity amongst student organizations
 4. Engage with, promote and support Bloomington Homeless Coalition

Graduate & Professional Students

1. Support Graduate Student Worker coalition demands

Student Safety & Sexual Assault Prevention

1. Recommend Title IX Sexual Misconduct Policies to protect survivors
2. Expand IU Notifications to off-campus student apartments

Sustainability
1. Green cleaning products for increased sanitation
2. All student org events to be green certified
3. Push for the buildings to be LEED certified on campus
4. Commit to achieving carbon neutrality by 2040 or sooner
5. Push for IU to divest from fossil fuel companies

Restructuring IUSG
1. Establish Advocacy Office (more info soon)
2. IDS funding??
3. Elevating transparency between students and IUSG with frequent social media
updates from all three branches, possibly a weekly email/ newsletter?
Diving into the policy
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

1. Mandatory diversity training for all IU faculty, auxiliary staff and other individuals
who directly interact with students

IU continues to experience racial, sexist, homophobic, ableist, and classist

discriminatory acts. These incidents are recurrent in classrooms, dorms, work
environments and at campus-sponsored events by students, faculty, staff and auxiliary
staff. While IU has made it clear that they value and hope to foster an environment of
diversity, equity, and inclusion the efforts have not led to substantial change for
students of diverse backgrounds.

In line with students on campus, the Office of the Provost and Executive Vice President,
the Offices of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and policies that Elevate will enforce a call
for the implementation of mandatory diversity training for all IU faculty, auxiliary staff
and other individuals who directly interact with students that is geared towards
providing awareness of implicit biases and microaggressions with the goal of
preventing discriminatory incidents from happening. Training would provide resources
for conflict resolution specifically involving offensive and/or discriminatory acts based
on race, sex, ability, sexual orientation, religion or gender expression. Additionally, this
mandatory training system calls for the continuous evaluation of training and those
taking the training to ensure accountability and effectiveness of training.

2. Establish the Indiana Inclusive Recruitment Program, an admissions recruitment

initiative geared toward recruiting academically-gifted, underrepresented
students.
○ Ensure this program hires current marginalized students to serve as
admissions ambassadors or interns within the Indiana Inclusive program
to assist with the application process and give insight into the
undergraduate experience through the lens of a current student
3. Increase visibility, awareness, and structural presence of gender neutral
resources such as single stall restrooms or family restrooms on campus
4. Racial Literacy Project
 ○ I think this could be a dope long-standing and permanent programming
that IUSG puts on.
○ The Racial Literacy Project is designed to encourage faculty, staff, and
students to understand racial inequities and help them understand how
they can affect meaningful change and create a welcoming, inclusive and
equitable campus climate.
○ hosting speakers, facilitating conversations on concrete efforts to address
whiteness and racial inequities in institutional decision-making, the
academic curriculum, and the campus, reading groups
○ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bUJrgX8vspyy7YttiEC2vD0Da
wrpPYiZs94V0ov7qZQ/htmlview
5. Create MERGE program (Multi Ethnic Racial Group Education)
○ All student orgs undergo training to increase cultural competence
■ Power, Privilege , Fragility focused
○ Advancing students of color into student leadership positions
6. Students with Disabilities Feedback to Capital Planning and Facilities Services
○ Institutionalize a process that allows ARS, alongside student
representatives from the Disabled community, to do a quality-check of
facility experiences regularly. In an effort to ensure that all students
experience a quality and fair version of Carolina’s facilities, we will strongly
urge Facility Services to establish a recurring process to ensure that
disabled students’ voices and perspectives are being heavily considered in
conversations surrounding facilities.
Emotional Wellness & Mental Health
1. Student Advisory Board for CAPS
○ The Student Advisory Board (SAB) will be a community of diverse
undergraduate and graduate students who serve in a consultative role to
Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS) regarding college
students’ mental health
■ Examples at University of Michigan and University of Pennsylvania
■ These members will also serve as representatives on conduct
board
■ Mandatory discussion with advisor/student rep before conduct
meeting
■ UBringChange2Mind- Bernice Pescosolido advisor
2. Returning to IU this coming fall in-person, engaging students in the college
experience and the mental gymnastic we’ve been taking
○ Working with student organizations to reach out to students
○ Continuing to use Zoom when convenient and necessary
3. Encourage the Growth of Recreational Sports

Recreational Sports leadership passionately encourage growth at different levels of the

student experience. Through their dedication to physical and mental wellbeing, social
engagement, opportunities and resources, respect for student employees and diversity,
equity and inclusion, Rec Sports has proven their motivation is geared toward the
betterment of all students. Yet, students who participate in Recreational Sports have
been unable to receive significant improvements to their experience because those
enhancements are out of the hands of this administration.

Indiana University needs to invest in structural, space and group fitness renovations.
The buildings Recreational Sports reside in (the Intramural Center and the SRSC) proves
the toll time takes on physical features. Despite the benefits the student fee provides to
Recreational Sports, in-coming students who want to create healthy lifestyles tend to
look past these on-campus spaces and resort to expensive work-out classes in the
Bloomington area such as Orange Theory or 9Round because of the comfortable
environment and trendy atmosphere.

4. Diversify CAPS Staff to include more counselors of intersectional

backgrounds/Programs
○ Better recruitment to HBCU and MSI outside of IU for professionals
○ Specific Counselors that target (LGBTQIA, International Students, and
Veterans)
○ Adding more expansive therapy activities/options
■ Music therapy
■ Art therapy. People draw or paint images that represent their
thoughts and emotions. ...
■ Music therapy.
■ Writing or poetry therapy.
■ Dance therapy. ...
■ Drama therapy.
5. Training for one member of all student organizations in Resilience: Mental
Health Crisis training (Peer mental health Counseling)
○ Group sessions for student leaders
■ Have the Student Involvement center help to offset cost
○ Gauge the accessibility of online counseling resources
○ What happens to students sessions who never use CAPS but are afforded
two sessions each semester.
○ Training would provide resources for conflict resolution specifically
involving offensive and/or discriminatory acts based on race, sex, ability,
sexual orientation, religion or gender expression.
○ Additionally, this mandatory training system calls for the continuous
evaluation of training and those taking the training to ensure
accountability and effectiveness of training.
● Off Campus Mental Health Resources
○ Mental Health Fund
■ Therapy Stipends
■ Offset the cost of additional sessions for students past 2 free
sessions
 ■ Provides money for off campus counseling sessions
■ Raise money by “Out of the Darkness walk”
● Training for (e.g., faculty, academic departments, peer leaders, health services,
counseling and advising centers, residence life, campus security, library staff)
that focus have high engagement with students be required
○ Programming for campus entities may include gatekeeper training, mental
health first-aid programs, and cultural competency training.
● Have all teachers commit to adding coping skills and preventative measures in
class as a learning objective.
○ Mindful Moments
■ Mindful breathing exercises
● Establish relationship with Residential dining services and crimson cupboard to
eliminate food waste and help students facing food insecurity.
● Increase advertisement of resources at CAPS
● Look into mental health/wellness space on campus similar to Kelley Student
Government

Basic Needs & Financial Support

1. Addressing unpaid internships

○ Making your internship unpaid DOES NOT ensure that your interns will:
■ work more, hustle harder, learn to “grind”
○ it DOES, however, ensure that your field will remain inaccessible to:
■ low-income students, people of color, those without a financial
safety net
○ If the university will continue to marketing these opportunities to students
with no pay they need to create a system of compensation for students
○
2. Support and uplift student workers

Campus jobs without proper formal training, unadvertised formal grievance procedures,
poor treatment from patrons, inconvenient scheduling options and other forms of a lack
of respect towards student labor is present at Indiana University and contradictory to
the stated values and mission of the school.

In line with current labor activists on campus policies that Defy will enforce and work
hand-in-hand for (and are not limited to) are:

● Providing student workers suitable job and safety training

● Advertise the formal grievance process for student workers that includes student
oversight and involvement
● Create a specific campus-wide campaign to address the treatment of student
workers
 ● Negotiate flexible, student-centered scheduling options by shortening 4hr shift
minimums
● Raise the minimum wage on campus to the promised $15/hr1
● Guarantee paid sick leave notwithstanding a doctor’s note

3. RA rights, curriculum (hasn’t been reviewed in a while rights?

○ RPS makes RA's fill in time sheets with no more than 39 hrs -- despite
obviously working more than that, especially I imagine during covid -- so
that they don't have to give them the dignity or benefits of full-time
employment
○ Including RAs in RHA (reach out to Becca Stein)
○ Prioritize RAs for First round of Vaccines
● Develop work Study alternative to provide opportunities for DACA recipients and
low income fafsa recipients
● Work with Funding board to provide students orgs with pipeline funding for
organizational

A lack of protection for Resident Assistants and CommUnity Educators prevents them
from serving RPS to the best of their ability and puts them at a higher risk for COVID-19.
RAs and CUEs continue to serve their residents and residence halls beyond the
mandated 39 hours, yet they do not receive the benefits or protection of full-time
employment. Indiana University and RPS must protect their residential staff by
prioritizing them for the first round of available COVID-19 vaccines, guaranteeing the
benefits of a full-time employee, and implementing hazard pay.

Academic Affairs & Professional Development

1. Reform Academic Advising
○ Advocate that Academic Advising actively recruits more advisors from
underrepresented backgrounds
○ Reform the Academic Advising experience to include Content-Specific,
Culture-Specific, and Alumni mentorship-based advising programs to
better aid in a student’s quality of advising and academic-mentorship
while at IU.
○ Work with the Office of Advising to better integrate practices that are more
welcoming and inviting to marginalized communities while also fostering
a more robust advising infrastructure to guide student
 2. Reform attendance policies to include more inclusive practice centering around
wellness and emotional health
○ Collaborate with the Dean of each school and academic faculty in
conversations around class policies structuring and provide
recommendations, to ensure that mental, emotional, and physical health
are prioritized when crafting course attendance policies.
3. New way forward
○ Hybrid Flexible Course model
i. each class is offered in-person, synchronously online and
asynchronously online to provide a student-centered, flexible
experience. Both students and faculty choose how they’d like to
participate
1. Provides greater flexibility in scheduling
2. Ability to learn at their own pace
3. Appeal to various learning styles
a. Build a solid tech foundation: work with uits
4. Together we can
○ Seniors are able to automatically enroll in courses that are waitlisted for
them to graduate first.
i. No student should have to wait an additional semester for one
course that is not available.

Civic Engagement & Public Service

1. Expanding the Indiana Lifeline Law

While the Lifeline Law was an enormous step forward in ensuring college students’
safety in 2012, there are a few things that the law leaves out. As it stands now, the law
protects someone calling on behalf of someone having a medical emergency from
arrest and further prosecution if they are also intoxicated and underage. It applies the
same standard to someone who reports a sexual assault and someone who witnesses
a crime. These protections are incredibly important and valuable, but it has been made
clear that the law can be doing more to ensure the safety of students.

In order to ensure the safety of students not only at IU but all across Indiana, the Lifeline
Law must be expanded to include the person in need of medical assistance under its
protections. Additionally, including drug overdoses in the Lifeline Law’s coverage would
also help reduce the number of cases where students refrain from calling for medical
assistance due to fear of arrest due to underage consumption of illegal substances.
Indiana University Student Government, in order to advocate for the expansion of the
Lifeline Law, needs to accumulate data about the usage of the Lifeline Law on IU
Bloomington’s campus. This data will be used to bolster the argument that the Lifeline
Law should be

2. Student Council member that represents IU students on Bloomington City

Council/establish regular meetings with IUSG and BCC
3. Coalition building/student unity amongst student organizations
○ Mass meetings of student leaders, members representing organizations,
student workers, RAs
4. Bloomington Homeless Coalition
○ Actively engage in the work of the BHC, providing student support where
needed.
Graduate & Professional Students
2. Support Graduate Student Worker coalition demands
○ Advocate for all graduate workers’ deserve minimum salary of $21,772,
according to IU’s own Bloomington cost-of-living calculations.
○ Demand the university implement cost of living raises for graduate
workers that follow inflation and the annually increasing cost of living in
Bloomington.
○ Grant the opportunity to choose whether or not to put their health at risk
by teaching in person, not administrators.
○ End the Fees

Student Safety & Sexual Assault Prevention

1. Title IX Sexual Misconduct Task Force

○ Narrow definition of what is "relevant" to a case
○ Narrower definition of who can serve as an advisor in the process. A
■ A more specific definition of the role of the advisor and what they
can do. Many schools do not allow advisors to speak at all in
meetings (this is not an issue at IU).
○ University policies stifle immediate action for protecting student survivors
from perpetrators who are tenured professors or university staff.
○ Federal policies stifle immediate action for protecting student survivors
from perpetrators who are students.
 ○ Require IU to have the same policies for on campus and off campus
incidents/recognition that the location of a traumatic event is not the most
important factor
■ change the policy to include assaults that take place off campus as something that falls
under TIX.??
○ Lobby to remove cross examination
○ Require a specific timeframe for resolving a complaint/case (90 days
would usually be sufficient)
■ should require a deadline for the initiation of the investigative
process in line with the university's sexual misconduct policy.
○ Adjustments to how hearings are conducted. They are entirely too long
and traumatic and include irrelevant details and/or rehash many of the
details already shared in written testimony.
○ Require more extensive training of hearing panel members
○ Allow written statements to serve as testimony without requiring
participation in a hearing
○ More ability to allow for protective measures against identified
perpetrators
○ Remove the part about schools not being able to take immediate action
against respondents by moving them to a different dorm or class
○ Provisions need to be in place to ensure students are educated and aware
of the difference between Title IX policy and the university's new sexual
misconduct policy and when both policies apply to instances of sexual
assault or misconduct.
○ If someone is charged with a felony or a misdemeanor associated with
hurting someone (in Indiana most domestic battery cases are a
misdemeanor and not a felony) they are automatically suspended pending
IU's investigation. Right now that only happens sometimes.
○ Making sure students are aware of resources.

Internal to IUSG
● Instagram lives, open office hours
Sustainability
1. Green cleaning products for increased sanitation
2. All student org events to be green certified
○ Work with the SILC to discuss possible trainings for all presidents of
student organizations
3. Push for the buildings to be LEED certified on campus
○ BENEFITS OF USING LEED
○ LEED is designed to address environmental challenges while
responding to the needs of a competitive market. Certification
demonstrates leadership, innovation, environmental stewardship,
and social responsibility. LEED gives building owners and operators
the tools they need to immediately improve both building
performance and the bottom line while providing healthful indoor
spaces for a building’s occupants.
○ LEED-certified developments are designed to deliver the following
benefits:
○ · Lower operating costs and increased asset value
○ · Reduced waste sent to landfills
○ · Energy and water conservation
○ · More healthful and productive environments for occupants
○ · Reductions in greenhouse gas emissions
○ · Qualification for tax rebates, zoning allowances, and other
incentives in many cities
○ In particular, LEED ND benefits are distinguished by the following:
○ · Scale. The sheer quantity of green benefits is magnified when
captured at the neighborhood scale, often
○ including dozens or hundreds of buildings and thousands of
occupants.
○ · Comprehensiveness and synergies. Neighborhood planning is
inherently comprehensive, and that all-
○ inclusive scope enables unique opportunities to capture synergistic
benefits. An example is rainwater
○ management accomplished, in part, at an outdoor civic space that
infiltrates runoff.
○ · Longevity. Once designed and constructed, neighborhoods may
persist for hundreds of years. A sustainable
○ neighborhood design, therefore, pays green dividends for
generations, cumulatively a much larger return than on most other
green investments.
○ By participating in LEED, owners, operators, designers, and builders
make a meaningful contribution to the green building industry. By
documenting and tracking resource use, they contribute to a growing
 body of knowledge that will advance research in this rapidly evolving
field. This will allow future projects to build on the successes of
today’s designs and bring innovations to the market
○ https://www.usgbc.org/sites/default/files/section/files/v4-guide-exc
erpts/Excerpt_v4_ND.pdf
○
12 out of 445 buildings are leed certified
● Maybe a goal be to get ALL residents halls LEED certified possible collaboration
with RHA
○ Tangible goal

Restructuring IUSG
1. Project tractor and real time feedback form on the IUSG website.
TRANSPARENCY BABY!
2. Holding Office hours at the various culture centers we need to stop expecting
students to come to us and go to them!
3. Establish a Social Justice office/committee
a. Books and resources on issues
b. Know your rights
The goal of IUSG should always be reaching out to the students and working with them
as well as for them. Elevate values transparency, outreach, and restructuring the student
government to serve the students every time. We are demanding a social justice
committee, flexible office hours that will take place at various cultural centers on
campus, project trackers, and real time feedback forms on the IUSG website. Elevate is
committed to creating a student government that is effective and prepared to serve the
students to the absolute best of its ability.
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