Proposed Platform Document Changes

The First Look…2013-2014

The MSCSA Platform Document guides our decision making. It outlines broadly what we support and what we oppose as an association.

Every year, this document is reviewed and revised.

This document is ESSENTIAL to the association, and YOU are getting the opportunity to change it and make it stronger.

Platform Document

The revisions start internally at the MSCSA office.

Revisions brought to Platform Committee.

Revisions brought to student body. September: first look, changes can be

made by amending recommendations. Only by Platform members.

October: second and final look, all changes made final. By any student.

Revision Process

Anything that is underlined has been added and is brand new.

Anything that has a strike through it is being taken out of the document.

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MSCSA Supports:◦ 8. Assistance in completing the

application process for all forms of financial aid at no cost to students.

Article II: Federal Legislative Issues

MSCSA Supports:◦ 11. Clarifying legislation concerning drug

convictions and financial aid eligibility to only include students who have been convicted of drug related offenses while they were receiving financial aid.

Article II Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 12. Legislation that would remove the

drug and selective service line-items from the FAFSA application form.

◦ 13. Lower, fixed interest rates on all federal student loans and retaining the “in-school” interest subsidy for undergraduate subsidized Stafford Loans.

Article II Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 17. Retaining the six-month grace period

for all federal loans.

◦ 18. Expanded loan forgiveness programs.

Article II Continued

MSCSA Opposes:◦ 7. Limiting the semesters of eligibility for

the Pell Grant.

Article II Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 3. Legislation that would make the first

two years of public college tuition-free. through tax credits.

◦ 5. Expanded Lloan forgiveness programs for instructors individuals in public service.

Article III: State Legislative Issues

MSCSA Supports:◦ 17. Exempting MnSCU from the one-third

debt service requirement for capital bonds.

Article III Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 18. The continued use of Higher

Education Asset Preservation and Renewal Replacement (herein referred to HEAPR) funds to allow campuses to engage in demolition and comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (Already in current law, MN Statutes 135A.046 Subdivision 2)

Article III Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 24. Further MSCSA supports making

Efforts to make any student that completed 3 three years of high school in Minnesota and meets all other eligibility requirements eligible for all forms of financial aid.

Article III Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 11. Continued and increased funding, and

development and purchase of Academic licenses for full software and other technology that increases access and availability to for students.

Article III Continued

MSCSA Opposes:◦ 1. Legislation that mandates changes in

curriculum that negatively affects students in their efforts to graduate from a certificate or degree program.

◦ 2. Making student life fees or student association fees optional.

Article III Continued

MSCSA Opposes:◦ 7. Proposals to raise the private college

maximum grant for the state grant program.

Article III Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 8. The right of students to conduct voter

registration campaigns on campus with support from the without interference from the administration.

◦ 25. A sSystem-wide digital and financial literacy basic computer trainings that each campus would provide at no cost to students.

Article IV: Local and Campus Issues

MSCSA Opposes:◦ 2. Any legislation that restricts a

student’s ability to vote at their campus precinct at the precinct in which they currently reside.

Article IV Continued

MSCSA Supports:◦ 8. A mandatory notification period of no

less than one two weeks for the appointment of student representatives to campus committees whose work directly affects students before committee work can begin.

Article VI: MnSCU Issues

MSCSA Supports:◦ 34. Access to low cost or free online and

Adult Basic Education courses to meet developmental education requirements.

Article VI Continued

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