Hello and welcome to my third bi-weekly blog post, Issue of the Hour.
This post will be relatively short because I am pressed for time and life is becoming increasingly hectic due to approaching finals. Also I apologize for posting a day late, yesterday was particularly hectic.
Today’s Topics: Bursar News Update, Update on Childcare Project and WCSA’s First Official Meeting
An Update on the Bursar Situation- Bursar Limit will Lower to $0
Last post I said that the bursar limit was being lowered from $2000 to $1000, meaning if you’re more than $1000 in debt, you can’t register for classes.
I recently learned that they’re now setting the bar even lower to a $0 bursar limit. The school is doing this because they are in lots of debt.
Previously I wrote that the administration told staff and faculty not to put this into writing. Yesterday I learned that they’d also barred the preface from writing about it too. However, the preface pushed back and were eventually allowed to cover the topic.
Working Class Students of America will Potentially Partner with Student Social Worker Association in the Future
As for the childcare issue, we have not yet made any tangible progress toward reopening a center or getting a childcare program started on campus. I have gone to the social work department to look for resources I could share with the WCSA at our meeting today, but as of now I have not gotten any new information.
However, the social work department has showed a lot of enthusiasm for what the union is doing and are eager to partner with us. I am hopeful that together we will be able to see more progress, more quickly. I have yet to reach out to the Student Social Worker Association directly to ask about a partnership, but will do so as soon as I can.
Working Class Students of America’s First Official Meeting
Yesterday on the 20th of November, Working Class Students of America held our first official meeting!
We discussed our goals and some of the projects we are working on. We talked a little bit about some of the mutual aid projects we are working on, including a carpooling system, a free library of used textbooks and a potential childcare program.
We also discussed holding meetings for intellectual discourse and pushing as a group for more transparency from the administration in regards to policy and financial concerns— as IU has been particularly secretive about very important decisions that can and will affect the lives of hundreds if not thousands of students in very significant ways.
A writer for The Preface at IUSB— Wren Betts, came to our meeting. They will be writing an article about the WCSA in the preface shortly.
The meeting was a relatively small one, but I am optimistic about the future of our student organization. Not only will we have our names in the papers, but now we are finally starting to formulate a specific agenda for what we plan to do and delegating tasks among our members and officers.
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