RESOLUTION 2020-1028
Topic
Ongoing
Student Body Resolution Requesting that the University of Florida Assemble a Working Group on UF’s Connections to Indigenous Expropriation and Slavery to Better Understand and Document the University’s History.
Proposed
1st reading
Simply put...
The University of Florida Student Government Senate recognizes the need to conduct further research regarding Indian removal and the legacies of slavery at the University of Florida. The University of Florida Student Government Senate requests that the Office of the President and the Chief Diversity Officer appoint a Working Group composed of students and faculty to conduct further research and to develop university level curriculum and courses on the University of Florida’s connections to Indian expulsion and slavery.
2nd reading
Pass
Senate Sponsor(s)
Author(s)
Adreanne Martinez, Senator Claudia Paola Tio, Ahmad Brown, Javier Escoto-Garcia, Gabriella Paul, and Morgan Peltier
Committee Sponsor(s)
The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations, The Samuel Proctor Oral
History Program, Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Director Professor Paul Ortiz, Professor
Jon Sensbach, Professor Elizabeth Dale, Professor Lauren Pearlman, Professor Sheryl Kroen,
Professor Nancy Hunt, Professor Benjamin Wise, Professor Louise Newman, Professor Philip
Janzen, Professor Vincent Adejumo, Professor Sharon Austin, Professor Rik Stevenson,
Professor Patricia Hilliard-Nunn, Professor Ryan Morini, Professor Tanya Saunders, Professor
Max Deardorff, Professor Fernanda Bretones Lane, Professor Heather Vrana, Professor Lillian
Guerra, Professor Rosana Resende, Professor Amanda Concha-Holmes, Professor Mark Reid,
Professor Beth Rosenson, Professor Katheryn Russell-Brown, Professor Diedre Houchen,
Professor Kenneth Nunn, Indigenous American Student Association, UF College Democrats, UF
Students for Bernie, Minority Party Leader Colin Solomon, Assistant Minority Party Leader
Raisa Karim, Senator Zachariah Chou, Senator Matthew Diaz, Senator Emma Sanchez, Senator
Melody Castillo, Senator Sana Nimer, Senator Suzanna Barna, Senator Aviv Cutler, Senator
Sparsha Muralidhara, Senator Santiago Clavijo-Gomez, Senator Ryan Wilder, Senator
Mohammed Faisal