As undergrads at the University, we all pay a $22 "Student Activity Fee" per semester. To the best of my knowledge, said fee is reserved by the University for StudCo, who then appropriate funds to organizations on Grounds. With over 14,000 undergraduate students at UVA, StudCo basically gets $300,000 per semester to fund around 1,000 registered CIOs. Therefore, on average each CIO gets more than $300 per semester. While that isn't a lot, and there are certainly variations among CIOs, I feel that we as members of a transparent community deserve some sort of information as to what we are actually paying for.

Global warming is a serious issue that has already severely affected many in the US and around the world. Hurricane Sandy proved climate has changed.

350.org and many other groups are encouraging colleges and universities to take a stand against global climate change by divesting from fossil fuel companies that pollute the environment - just like they did in the 1970s to stop apartheid in South Africa. Corporations only listen to the power of money - and UVA has quite a lot of it - so we can invest better elsewhere. It doesn't make sense to value sustainability and invest in a future where the world is burning up, droughts floods and crop failure are common, and many thousands are displaced because their homes are literally under water.

Please share this to get UVA Investment Management Company (UVIMCO) - the people that manage the endowment - to divest our tuition and donations from dirty coal, oil, and gas corporations.

Learn more at www.GoFossilFree.org

Multiple ideas merged. Here's how I merged them.
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Description of merged idea.

PREVENT NURSING STUDENTS FROM BEING RESTRICTED FROM COLLEGE CLASSES:
As of currently, the school of nursing is restricted from registering for classes on sis with the academic group description being College & Graduate Arts & Sciences. Some examples of these classes would be Psychology and Languages. Being a double major for psychology and nursing, I see first hand how greatly this impacts us because by the time that we can sign up for College classes, they are filled. This prevents nursing students from meeting their required general education classes for social sciences and other like courses while we still have flexibility in our schedule Some people may even be prevented taking on another major or minor. This has affected many students in the school of nursing and we would like to get this fixed so that we can sign up for them before they are all full for the coming semester.

ALLOW ENGINEERING STUDENTS INTO COLLEGE HUMANITIES CLASSES!:
The STS classes in the Engineering School are not enough to create a well rounded education for engineers. It is really difficult for engineers to get into Anthropology, Psychology, Economics and Language classes, but it is really important for engineers to broaden their education so that we can broaden our perspectives, which will come into play when applying our engineering education!

CURRY STUDENTS ALSO HAVE A RESTRICTION ON CLAS CLASSES
There has already been a concern raised about Nursing, SEAS, and Architecture students being restricted from CLAS classes, like psychology courses, and I've found that this also applies to Curry students. Can we merge this topic with the already existing one?

(Merged and edited by Klaus Dollhopf, Academic Affairs; nmd3ey@virginia.edu; 4/25/12.
Curry merged on 4/26. Klaus Dollhopf)