Whereas, transfer students are a significant portion of the undergraduate population that bring varied and diverse perspectives to campus,

Whereas, transfer students need to remain engaged on issues happening on campus and within student government to ensure that participation among this population occurs, 

Whereas, it is critical that transfer students have a multitude of spaces to participate in shared student governance of ASUCI and have an availability to get resources from student government, 

Whereas, due to the demographic population of transfer students relative to the amount of non-transfer students it is fairly common for ASUCI to allow for critical needs for transfer students to pass by, 

Whereas, ASUCI has a duty to ensure that transfer students are receiving the resources necessary to be successful on campus, 

Whereas, it is important that ASUCI also directly remains informed as to what the needs of transfer students are and thus develops a committee to be able to facilitate that information between the two parties, 

Whereas, the Transfer Student Center has shown interest in working with ASUCI in developing this committee that would be composed of both transfer students, professional staff from the Transfer Student Center, ASUCI officials, and Legislative Council members, 

Whereas, this committee can help serve the interest of transfer students by allowing immediate and dedicated spaces and services to commit such planning to ensure that a measure of efficacy reaches the transfer student population, 

Therefore Let it Be Resolved, that ASUCI Legislative Council creates an Ad Hoc committee for transfer students paired with the Transfer Student Center to serve the needs of transfer students, 

Let it be resolved that ASUCI Legislative Council appoints At-Large Representative Ariel Barnoy from its own membership to this committee, and ASUCI Administrative Affairs Vice President Alexander Fung.

Let it further be resolved that the ASUCI Legislative Council will revisit this legislation by the end of Spring Quarter 2016 in order to facilitate discussion on a renewal process for this Ad Hoc Committee, and

Let it finally be resolved that this committee be named “Transfer Student Committee.”