Affordability

Protecting the current library hours and laying the groundwork for a 24 hour library, creating and protecting student Work Learn jobs.

Introduce a minimum funding package for research-based masters programs.

Create a maximum textbook cost cap for courses, similar to policy V-131.

Allocate the unspent millions with the awards committee to negotiate with donors (or their trusts) of awards that frequently go unclaimed to reallocate that funding to needs-based awards that will be used every year.

Work to create a policy to provide all required lab equipment and other materials for free.

Accessibility

Ensure that all required classes, labs, and tutorials in all faculties are offered with online, hybrid, and in-person options as well as recorded lectures

Extend the add/drop deadline.

Allow academic hardship concessions for midterms and increase the academic hardship period.

Improve disability policy for graduate students, as well as all disabled faculty, staff, and student employees.

Add temporary health issues to the scope of disability policy.

End requirement for letters of diagnosis for accommodation and streamline the process for registering with the CfA.

Review policy LR7 (Disability Accommodations).

Improve the concessions policy: including stricter requirements for fair faculty procedures (including how they define "good standing"), self-certified extensions (as done at many other universities), and easier navigation.

Moral Clarity

End international Partnerships with universities complicit with human rights abuses and genocide.

I will push for a policy on Ethical Research Funding, including following the recommendations in the report from the Centre for Climate Justice.

I will fight for real progress on the Indigenous Strategic Plan, including Goal 3 (Moving research forward), Goal 4 (Indigenizing our curriculum), Goal 6 (Recruiting Indigenous people), and Goal 8 (Creating a holistic system of support), each of which have actions directly under the Senate's purview.