• Goal 1: Hold a Social Justice Leadership Summit to increase student-community relations
  • Provide 40-50 students Volunteer Services Office orientation of access to services, resources, and opportunities
  • Provide students networking opportunities through contacts with influential community partners
  • Inform of issues that effect the surrounding communities
    • Ex (Environmental Racism, Women’s Rights, Poverty)
  • Learn how to partner with the community to build strong coalitions
    • Each student collaborative must choose one social issue to address in the spring semester and identify a community partner that can assist in their endeavors 

• Goal 2: Build a “Speak Friendly” Environment.
  • By doing so students/ student organizations will effectively build relationship which will in turn strengthen the coalitions formed at the summit.
  • Give tools to build relationships with people who share common experiences
    • Begin a trend where students speak to each other in passing
  • Show how to begin conversations with people who share a common goal
  • Overall success would be measured by a greater number of student organization collaborating rather than having similar events at different times
    • Create a Shared Calendar for student organizations programs that surround social justice and volunteerism
    • Have at least two major events that surround an issue discussed at SLJ 2008
  • Student programs would have a great attendance through “word of mouth”  seeing that it is one of the most effective way to promote events on campus
    • Have student organizations begin a base count with initial events for spring 2009; from this well will be able to measure attendance for future events of the same nature.
    • Promote longevity of events (annual social justice campaigns)

• Goal 3: Increase Social Action among underrepresented groups
  • Know how to affectively gain allies
  • Empower students to get involved in the community.
    • Utilizing Volunteer Services and promoting collaborative projects
  • Increase access to campus resources
    • Through the power analysis during the summit
    • Students will leave knowing who their on campus allies are
  • Promote efficient campaigning among under-represented groups; utilize the Inclusion and Community Engagement center which has a mission that supports these groups.
    • Engage under-represented groups be able to relate to the situations and in-justices that people who share a common background go through.

The University of Texas at San Antonio
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San Antonio, TX 78249

Saturday, November 22, 2008 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (CST)