NU S.A.I.D.

We demand that Northeastern University increases the representation of Black students on campus to 10%,  Latin@ students on campus to 15%, and American Indian/Alaskan Native students to 3% of the student body on campus. A diverse student led committee will work with administration to complete this goal.

We demand that Northeastern University makes a conscious effort to include students who live in the US though are not US citizens or permanent residents in its student body, and that Northeastern supports all other Dreamer Project initiatives.

We demand that Northeastern University addresses diversity, inclusion, and privilege through education by creating mandatory trainings on race in Freshman Orientation, Intro to college coursework, and have it integrated into co-op classes and programs suplemented by each host college.

In order to ensure that departments that focus on underrepresented minorities such as the African American and Latino and Caribbean Studies Department, we demand that Northeastern University adequately staffs each department, assists with its programming, and creates more combination  majors within these studies to increase student participation.

We demand that Northeastern actively works to reduce the eurocentric focus of course work within all first year core requirement courses.

We demand that all faculty, staff, and admin undergo a yearly training in diversity in order to remain up to date on issues that affect marginalized groups.

We demand for Northeastern University to instate culturally aware financial aid counselors that are able to relate to the various backgrounds of students on campus.

We demand that Northeastern University stops its anti-union rhetoric in relation to the adjunct faculty on campus and that a fair bargaining agreement is reached by January, 31st 2016 that addresses the needs and concerns of on campus adjunct faculty.

We demand that Northeastern University provides all accepted Boston Public School Students (BPS) and all students who are not US citizens or permanent residents but still live full time in the US, a full scholarship to Northeastern University.

In hopes to raise the admittance of more students of color, we demand that Northeastern University provide more financial support for lower income students through tripling the budgets of current Scholarship programs aimed towards lower income students.

We demand that Northeastern University provides points of contact in each on campus freshman dorm building for students to go to to discuss race, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexuality.

We demand that UHCS provides semesterly information sessions on external health insurance resources, including information on free and low cost clinics in the community. We expect for UHCS to increase its therapist staff with more counselors who can personally relate to marginalized groups and so that the wait time to see a counselor is decreased to at most, one week.

We demand that Northeastern makes a statement in writing, illustrating its intention to build a sexual assault resource center on campus with a diverse staff that is experienced in working with marginalized groups.

We demand that Northeastern University become transparent with all known data on the number of students/faculty of color who apply, the number of students/faculty of color who are accepted into the university, and the number of students/faculty of color who attend/accept a job at Northeastern and to use this information to improve overall diversity within Northeastern.

We demand that Northeastern University creates a bi-annual report made available to on campus students and faculty that illustrates an in depth summary of all work being done at Northeastern University surrounding diversity and inclusion.

We demand that Northeastern University creates a resource center that offers support programs for students of color, lower income, undocumented/ first generation students and first generation of college families that helps students adjust to collegiate life.

We demand that Northeastern University creates mandatory trainings that addresses cultural humility that each service oriented group on campus participates in before engaging in any external community.

We demand that Northeastern University divests from any companies involved in the operation of private prisons, and in the fossil fuel industry. After divestment, Northeastern University must establish a Socially Responsible Investment Committee (or at the minimum, adopt a socially responsible investment policy) for all investment transactions by the start of the 2017-­2018 Academic Year.

We demand that President Aoun makes a statement on each of these illustrated points by January 31st, 2016.