Take a right off University onto Pleasant Street, and you enter a part of campus moms call a “lactation desert.”

There was no plan to accommodate nursing mothers when those buildings were constructed. There still isn’t.

After facilitating lactation services for nearly a decade, the volunteer-run Lactation Advocacy Committee is shepherding a resolution urging University of Minnesota administration to create a comprehensive lactation support policy. 

The Task Force on Building Names and Institutional History was convened in fall 2018 to review the four Twin Cities campus buildings mentioned in the exhibit, A Campus Divided, and the MSA Resolution to Rename Coffman Union (pdf), and recommend actions to the administration.

Applications to become a 2019 Transfer Student Leader (TSL) are now available! TSLs support the transition of hundreds of transfer students to the University while earning $10.50 per hour. Required training sessions are completed throughout the spring and TSLs work at each of the summer transfer orientation sessions.

Group Therapy can be a powerful therapeutic intervention to help people manage personal challenges and mental health concerns. An important goal of group therapy is to move out of isolation and connect with other people. 

To feel less alone, it is important LGBTQIA+ and students of color can participate in a group with others who share their identity. On campus and in society at large, students outside majority groups are marginalized, and often feel they must maintain a certain image or act differently to counter stereotypes.