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Student SEED is a seminar course whose purpose is to empower participants to examine important issues surrounding social justice as they relate to their personal lives and the university setting. It is our understanding that the University of Wisconsin Madison regularly touts Student SEED as falling under the rubric of Plan 2008, yet has only minimally supported the Student SEED project through a meager level of funding from the Equity and Diversity Resource Center (EDRC) for the past 5 years. Also, we understand that the facilitators, who take several hours of their personal time to work on Student SEED each week, do not receive any compensation for the work that goes above and beyond their current full-time campus staff positions or schoolwork. If the University truly values the benefits that Student SEED offers to UW-Madison students like us, then the University must support it in a way that puts it on par with other similar courses on campus.

Therefore, we strongly support and encourage the University of Wisconsin Madison to institutionalize Student SEED by doing the following:

Provide regular and fair levels of compensation for the facilitators of the Student SEED project
Make Student SEED a listed course within the College of L&S
Make Student SEED a course that fulfills the Ethnic Studies requirement
Allow facilitators to continue working with a similar level of autonomy that the EDRC currently affords them
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Goal
50 signatures
Goal: 100
Latest Signatures
27 November 2015
50. Carolyn P | Year in school Alum Major Legal Studies, Social Welfare It's scary to think where I would (or wouldn't) be today without having had the SEED experience. I was part of SEED when it was just a pilot program and have been happy to see it grow as it has. Ple
12 November 2015
49. Ingrid R | Year in school graduated Major geography В
2 November 2015
48. Sarah L | I support this petition
26 November 2014
47. Dana B | I support this petition
9 November 2014
46. Leah W | Year in school Alumni 2003 Major Political Science and International Relations I was in the Student SEED class the first semester it was offered. It truly was an amazing experience. I have worked at Indiana University and UCLA since leaving UW-Madison. I
28 August 2014
45. Ellen B | I support this petition
21 June 2014
44. Rhiannon K | Year in school Junior Major Psych В
28 May 2014
43. Amy B | I support this petition
12 April 2014
42. Joseph G | Year in school Senior Major Portuguese Seed kept me here when I thought I should go!
19 March 2014
41. Henry T | Year in school Graduate Major Sociology В
12 February 2014
40. Rachelle Gaines | I support this petition
13 January 2014
39. Becky S | I support this petition
1 December 2013
38. Leoncarlos M | I support this petition
27 October 2013
37. Kristen P | Year in school senior (going on 5th year) Major sociology, history, women's studies fund SEED! We need it!
13 August 2013
36. Adey A | I support this petition
1 June 2013
35. Ryan D | I support this petition
22 May 2013
34. Lauren B | I support this petition
17 November 2012
33. Amanda B | Year in school graduated '05 Major Biochemistry I wanted to take the course, but was already full - obviously there is a large interest group for the class.
13 September 2012
32. Melissa M | I support this petition
30 July 2012
31. Mary H | Year in school graduate Major sociology We can only make Plan 2008 really work if we institutionalize SEED
11 July 2012
30. Zachary Ik | Year in school 2nd Major Sociology I learned more in student seed about the real world and people's feelings then I did with a six figure professor
3 July 2012
29. Avery K | I support this petition
19 June 2012
28. Ellen H | Year in school Graduated 2005 Major Sociology В
11 March 2012
27. Elise N | I support this petition
4 March 2012
26. Vanessa F | Year in school Senior Major Political Science The essence of an Educational Institution is to provide its community with the opportunity to seek knowlege and participate in the market place of ideas, how can you possibly grow or change anything with out
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