Our Platform

How we’ll connect with you, and how you’ll connect with others.

• The Cloud—a new YCC service through which you can input the concerns and issues that are on your mind and see what others are thinking. Put your ideas in the cloud, and be constantly updated as the YCC works through them.

• YCal—want to know when the next basketball game will be played? Don’t want to miss the next Dramat production? Sync any club or athletic team’s G-Cal to your own to stay in the loop.

• Game of the Month—we’ll partner with athletic teams, Greek organizations, and artists to bring you Games of the Month: a bit of the SEC experience on our Ivy campus.

• Student Engagement Team—building on the previous administration’s work, we’ll fill out the Student Engagement team with liaisons (Arts, Athletics, Pre-Professional, Service, and Cultural) to give your organization a direct point of access to the YCC.

How we’ll change the way the administration communicates with students.

• The Courtesy Principle—it’s one thing to have your daily life disrupted. It’s another entirely to have no idea why. We’ll make sure that upper administration gives us the courtesy of a look behind the bureaucratic curtain for the real reasons on why they make the decisions they do.

• Presidential Town Halls—once per semester, upper admin will sit down and field questions from students, guaranteeing their responsibility to respond to us.

• The Sterling Lecture Series—allowing Yale’s best and brightest professors to share their knowledge on the things they know best once per month.

• Attendance Policy—Enforcing a three-strike rule to ensure that those elected to represent you take their roles and responsibilities seriously.

• Senate Oversight—Allowing the Senate to view and recommend one out of the top two applicants for each E-Board position to bridge the gap between elected and elected YCC members.

• Meeting, Communication & Policy Tracker—a running document that tracks all YCC meetings with other bodies (student, faculty, or staff) for your reference so you know where YCC hours are being spent.

Yale Career Conference—We’ll partner with the minds behind Yale’s premier pre-professional clubs to host an annual networking & discovery event each fall.

Codified Career Tracks—Allowing students to receive pre-professional resources and communities by indicating pre-professional track on YaleHub.

Campus Closet—A reinstatement of a pre-COVID service. A campus-wide professional clothes-renting service: staffed by students and run with a library-esque checkout system.

Universal Certificate Programs—allowing for certificates to be pursued in any program, including those for which there is already a major, so students can browse intersectional class options without feeling like they’re “wasting” time or class credits.

Pre-Professional Track Codification—allowing students to indicate pre-professional tracks on diplomas and degrees to signal to employers a higher level of job readiness.

Publicizing Advising Overhaul—Making public the fact that first-year advising is currently undergoing a holistic review, and advocating for student oversight and input in the process.

• Dining Advisory Board—a student group headed by the Dining Policy Director to avoid being blindsided by shifts in dining status quo.

• Vegan and Vegetarian Variety—to ensure that students are getting a fair shake at meeting their macronutrient, micronutrient, and vitamin goals regardless of their dietary restrictions.

• Flex Plan Reform—Pushing for Yale Hospitality to increase the Flex Points allocation from 300 points to a minimum of 400 points per semester.

• Formal FGLI Peer Liaison Program—the Yale experience has yet to fully include FGLI students. Drawing on feedback we’ve received, we believe these students deserve their own PL system to point them in the direction of funding and support.

• Knowing your Rights—serving as a bridge between students and lawyers, immigration non-profits, and local legislative bodies to provide support for those threatened by recent attacks on non-citizens.

• Accessibility—following up on the administration’s plans to make every Cultural Center fully accessible within the next five years.

• Campus-Wide BYO Policy—continuing the Senate’s advocacy for the implementation of a reusable cup/mug program at Steep Café, Elm, and The Ivy to reduce single-use waste. Also, advocating for discounts for those who bring their own cups.

• Shuttle Line for Tweed Airport—provide stipends for Connecticut Shuttles or a Yale Shuttle to Tweed Airport. In order to conserve as much time for Yale staff and energy as possible, we propose that Yale implements this towards breaks such as October, November, and Winter Recess. 

• Waste Signage—clearer signage across Residential Colleges for Waste and E-Waste (including trash, recycling, composting).

• Mental Health & Counseling—addressing student concerns about wait times, quality of service, and access to mental health services through active communication and partnership with YC3.

• Menstrual Equity—institutionalizing a process for keeping all Yale bathrooms stocked with menstrual products at all times.

• Summer Storage—pushing to move summer storage back into residential colleges for ease and cost-efficiency.

• Raising Contributions—encouraging Yale to increase its $22.5 million voluntary contribution to the city of New Haven in light of current renegotiations.

• New Haven Day of Service—holding an annual event in partnership with Dwight Hall through which students get out into the community and make an impact on the ground.

• YCCxBoard of Alders—establishing a direct link between the YCC and New Haven city officials by building a relationship with the Ward 1 Alder.