Board of Regents Address Student Concerns

Although the Board of Regents announced that October 16, 2015 would be the meeting pertaining to the student concerns presented by #TakeBackTxSU, that was just an open forum. The meeting that the regents actually used to discuss those matters took place on October 15, 2015.

Based off the reports released from the board, they were admit to comply to the demands of the students.

Some of the major  concerns that were addressed included homecoming details, understaffing in the financial aid office, and the maintenance of the grounds and safety of Texas Southern University.

According to the reports, the regents have agreed to allow a year-round committee be established that will enable more student input for future homecoming festivities. Given that this years homecoming has already been planned and is on the horizons, they have also agreed to allow a student based committee to plan additional events to take place homecoming week.

It was also established that students would like the location of the homecoming parade and tailgating to be brought back to third ward, instead of downtown away from TSU, but the status of that request remains incomplete.

This year a melee of students continued to hover around the financial aid office. Many students faced uncertainty in resolving financial aid related issues and being purged wrongfully from their classes.

The students demanded that TSU survey like institution’s financial aid office staff and adjust the amount of staff had at TSU. As of now the status of this request remains incomplete with a completion date of Spring 2016.

It was also addressed that the staff in the financial aid be given additional training that would improve interactions with students.

The campus grounds of TSU are in need of multiple repairs in order to be adhered as a safe regulated university. The major repairs addressed by the regents was the need for additional security guards, repair and continued kept functionality of all security cameras, and a renowned upkeep of residential housing pertaining to safety, security, and health regulations.

To view the full and comprehensive list of the agenda, visit TSU.edu.

In response to the students gathering on Sept. 21st, TSU issued this press release:

The source of this press release can be found on TSU.EDU

The birth of a movement: #TakeBackTxSU

Students of Texas Southern University have formed a movement entitled #TakeBackTxSU as a platform enabling students to call for change.

The movement started by TSU junior, Christina Letsinger, has been shedding light on the concerns and demands of students pertaining to the future of TSU as an HBCU and higher quality of student life, amongst other things.

The students who make up #TakeBackTxSU hope to accomplish positive changes across campus and the student body that will increase student enrollment and uphold TSU’s excellence in achievement.

With this amount of students uprising together in unity of what they want and expect from their university, the multitude of what they can accomplish is limitless.

The movement vows to remain peaceful and respectful as they convey the needs and wants of the students.

In order to officially keep up with the movement #TakeBackTxSU

You can follow them on: Twitter or Instagram

The students gathered together on September 21, 2015 to discuss and form a list of demands to be addressed by the adminstration. These are their demands:

 

We Demand Change:

#TakeBackTxSU

Mission Statement :

We are students for a change, a change that will fully uphold what we stand for: excellence in achievement. The movement hopes to also restore the campus to not just be known as a Historically Black College and University (HBCU), but to thrive as an HBCU. We want our TSU back!