My name is Anshika Kumar, I worked closely with the Campus Sustainability Fund last year, and I wanted to share a really incredible opportunity with you to help guide the future of sustainability on campus this coming year.
To give a little background, the CSF was a huge campaign we launched last year in order to establish a fund to support student-led sustainability projects on campus. Last Spring we heard from the Student Activities Fee committee (the avenue through which we pursued the fund) that we would have a $339,805 sustainability fund for the 2010-2011 school year!
In light of the fund's core values, the CSF is student money, and we wanted to make sure it remained in student hands: that's where you come in. The discretion of the fund will actually rest entirely with a seven-student committee, who will receive proposals for the fund, and decide which projects they wish to implement on campus.
The committee will be composed of 3 at-large ASUW appointments, 1 ASUW senate appointment, 2 GPSS appointments, and 1 ESAC (Environmental Stewardship Advisory Committee) appointment. Any undergrads can apply for the at-large ASUW appointments, and any senators can apply for the ASUW senate appointment--which will be voted on by the senate.
This is an unprecedented opportunity to put students at the forefront of the University's environmental agenda and sustainability efforts. And while serving on this committee is an enormous responsibility, it's also an incredibly exciting one-- and one that I hope you will consider. It will be a year-long commitment, but also keep in mind that any projects that you are particularly invested in, you will have to sit out voting on funding for.
I don't have all the details for the ASUW at-large appointment process, but I know there is an application and interview process that will take place in the first few weeks of Fall quarter. If you are interested, you should definitely shoot an e-mail to ASUW Vice President Eric Shellan (asuwvp@uw.edu), who will be heading up the interview process for the Committee appointments. And if you are a grad student, your GPSS President Sarah Reyneveld should be able to tell you more (sarahreyneveld@gmail.com).
Please feel free to e-mail me with any other questions, especially if you have questions about the fund itself. Our website is also a great resource for more information: www.uwcsf.org.
We've worked so hard to get the CSF into fruition, and now we need the dedication of a few creative, committed students to help make it a real success in its first year of being. Thank you so much for reading through this; I hope you will consider serving, and I hope the CSF will be a great resource for the UW Farm and its many ambitions this year.
Cheers!
Anshika Kumar
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