- Increase student research funding
- Support for international students
- Support critical anti-racist educational practices
- Create GSA policy reform group
- Support ‘green’ initiatives
- Build stronger relations with other campus student groups
- work with GSU "Refresh Slate" on ecological issues
- cooperate with CUPE 3907 to get better working conditions for its members
- better housing and services for graduate students
As the forces of neoliberalism and corporate culture gain ascendancy…there is an increasing call for people to surrender or narrow their capacities for engaged politics in exchange for market-based values, relationships and identities. * Giroux, H. (Winter 2002). Neoliberalism, Corporate Culture, and the Promise of Higher Education: The University as a Democratic Public Sphere. Harvard Educational Review. 72:4 (pp. 424-463).
“We must all work to strenghthen our community's democratic fabric. Social sustainabilty is a key issue for our future"