SCU WEBSITE UP

Our new website is up! CLICK HERE!!

www.SCUnity.org

SCU in the News

In the Voice Blog: Vox Populi
GUSA: Not all peaches 'n' cream, grassroots explained by Molly Redden

In the Hoya

Sept. 23rd
Tidings from Georgetown's Student Leaders by Pat Dowd and James Kelly

Sept. 19th
One Year After Jena, Still Work to Be Done by Brian Burke

Sitting on the Sidelines Won't Defeat Campus Intolerance by the HOYA Editorial Board

Sept. 12th
Survey Stresses Segregation Issues by Eugenia Sosa

Research Teams Begin September 22nd!

Monday:
Race at 7pm in Maguire 101 (Maguire is in Healy)
Religion at 8:45 pm in ICC 120

Tuesday
Gender/Sexual Orientation at 7:45pm in Walsh 496
School at 8pm in ICC 102


Wednesday
Education at 8pm in ICC 116

Thursday
Class at 7:45pm in ICC 119

We can't wait to see you there! We are so thrilled to start this innovative project.

Thanks!
SCU Board

Progress Report

The GUSA Student Commission for Unity, SCU, has made great strides in the past six months. One of the newest groups at Georgetown they are striving to make changes within the student community and change our Hoya family for the better. The organization has polled over 1,500 students about bias, racial, and segregation issues and uncovered facts that have never been shown before, such as “76.2% of Hoyas believe Georgetown has a self segregation problem”. The SCU is studying problems that students have been aware of for years, but have been too timid to address. This forward thinking organization can see the changes that need to be made and they are taking the time to make the appropriate changes. While this group is still small it is excited about the possibilities of expansion and getting more of the Georgetown community involved. With the survey process behind them the SCU is anxious to move forward and transform the Georgetown now, into the Georgetown that they know is possible. This year will be a year of growth and change for this organization and it seems more than promising. For more information contract studentcommissionforunity@gmail.com or check out their website at scunity.blogspot.com.

- Simone Dyson

Information Sessions This Week

We're finally ready to go! Information sessions are

Tuesday September 9th @ 8:15pm in WGR 201a

and

Wednesday September 10th @ 9pm in Reiss 112

See you there!

Information Sessions coming up!

UPDATE: These sessions have been suspended in loving recognition of Terrance Davis.

This week, join us for information sessions about our research teams!

Interested in studying Georgetown and advocating for change on campus? We need you to and your voice to attend ONE of the following information meetings on

Tuesday @ 8:15pm WGR 201a
Wednesday @ 9pm ICC 101
Thursday @ 8:15pm ICC 105

Fall 2008: Time for Action

We've worked hard all summer to prepare research teams for this fall! We are ready to study our school's responses to our survey concerning prejudice, discrimination, self segregation and Georgetown's identity based on -

Education Background
Gender and Sexual Orientation
Race
Religion
School
Year at Georgetown

Email us at StudentCommissionforUnity for more details!

The Georgetown University Student Association’s Student Commission for Unity is an innovative student-led, survey-based research project aimed at proposing and enacting a series of fact-based recommendations to unite Georgetown’s many diverse student communities by encouraging contemplation in action. The Commission will study answers to questions about University resources and discussions, discrimination and self-segregation based upon six criteria: gender and sexual orientation, school, class, education background, race and religion.

Each of these six criteria will have a Research Team of students assigned to studying and analyzing the results of the survey, as well as interviewing students, faculty, staff and administrators concerning the results of the survey. The Research Teams will write a critical summary of each of their assigned demographic studies. Finally, the Commission will develop an unlimited series of recommendations, centered around the democratically determined primary recommendations to be specifically pursued by Commission members who will become Action Teams from Research Teams.

The Commission has administered the survey to 1,517 undergraduate students on-line to students from all four schools. The Commission plans to unveil its findings, interviews, critical summaries and recommendations by January 2009.

Georgetown United, Today!

Hey! We hope you enjoyed Georgetown United! today, brought to you by the GUSA Student Commission for Unity. Please fill out our survey, it will take 5 minutes of your time, but you could win $50!

Want to get involved? Check out our press release for more info about the Student Commission for Unity, and send us an email at

StudentCommissionforUnity@gmail.com

Also, you can join the Facebook group!

We look forward to serving Georgetown with you.

SURVEY

The survey went live last night! We were very excited especially to see the results come in live. Last night we got over 1,000 respondents!!! Great work to everyone involved. If you haven't taken the survey please take it and please come to the meeting tonight at 8:00pm.
Again the link is below:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cNLD_2bKg61TEnVdE4p_2flNCQ_3d_3d

We are Georgetown? $50 could be yours for 5 minutes of your time!

We are Georgetown? Please take the time to fill out the survey for the GUSA Student Commission for Unity. Filling out the survey confidentially enters you for a chance to win a $50 gift card to the local business of your choice! (Wisey's, Tombs, The Bookstore, H&M, Visa Check card...whatever you want! ). Five minuets of your time will be appreciated because in those five minuets you can help change your Georgetown for the better.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=cNLD_2bKg61TEnVdE4p_2flNCQ_3d_3d

Thank you for helping your fellow students, we assure you that your answers will be confidential.

The GUSA Student Commission for Unity

SCU Update: 3.14.2008

SCU continues to make excellent progress in many areas. We have received IRB approval for our research project with no revisions. We are very proud that all of our hard work was so well received by research professionals at our University. We plan to administer the Survey on-line from April 4th-25th. We will spend April and May picking out the data. We are faced with the hard reality that a quality research report can not be published in the next five weeks, so we are going to focus on unifying student groups on campus for the remainder of the semester and we will form research teams in September. We plan to publish the report by late November. We plan to work very hard until that moment, and I am sure that things will turn out in the best interest of Georgetown. The following is what we have done the past month, and what we plan to do before the year is out:

We have:

* Received IRB approval without revisions
* Helped organize and facilitate the recent "Inclusion Forum" this
past Wednesday
* Organized a "Social Justice Unity" event, where we had 30 student
representatives from various social justice groups on campus. We
came up with the following recommendations to unify social justice
efforts in DC:
o Social Justice Fair (Like SAC Fair, but both semesters for
people who's schedules change)
o Update and Refresh the CSJ website, making it more
descriptive and user friendly
o Organize Mentoring and Tutoring Training sessions which
would be open to all of the social justice groups
o A comprehensive weekly schedule so that prospective mentors
or tutors would know what the time commitment is for each
group. (SCU should have this ready by next week!)
o $ for Co-Sponsorships between groups
o CSJ List server
o More Full-Time positions are needed in CSJ
o Presentations in Freshman classes about social justice
opportunities
o Put an electronic screen in Red Square to update student on
current events
* We are planning a follow up to this event and arranging meetings
with administrators.
* We are planning a large social/recruiting event on April 24th with
many cosponsors on Copley Lawn.

We have also created this blog!

Thank you again for all of your support, I hope to meet with you again before the semester is out. Have a great Easter Break if I do not see you before then!

Thanks,
Brian Kesten

Student Commission for Unity

The Georgetown University Student Association’s Student Commission for Unity is an innovative student-led, survey-based research project aimed at proposing and enacting a series of fact-based recommendations to unite Georgetown’s many diverse student communities. The Commission will study answers to questions about University resources and discussions, discrimination and self segregation based upon six criteria: gender, school, education background, LGBTQ identity, race and religion.

Each of these six criteria will have a Research Team of students assigned to studying and analyzing the results of the survey, as well as interviewing students, faculty, staff and administrators concerning the results of the survey. The Research Teams will write a critical summary of each of their assigned demographic studies. Finally, the Commission will develop an unlimited series of recommendations, centered around the democratically determined primary recommendations to be specifically pursued by Commission members who will become Action Teams from Research Teams.

The Commission aims to administer the survey to between 1,300 and 2,000 undergraduate students on-line to students from all four schools. The Commission plans to unveil its findings, interviews, critical summaries and recommendations by December 2008.