Issues

American Indian Learning and Resource Center

The AILRC project is an extraordinary design opportunity to enhance the understanding and appreciation of the American Indian community and culture.  The project’s mission centers around teaching and learning the American Indian Language, culture, history, ethos, and community.  The design approach set forth by Anmahian Winton Architects, is close collaboration with DSGW Architects, has been developed to embrace the cultural program and to extract the most functional and visually compelling work of architecture possible.  The project’s design goals are to be sustainable, to meaningfully engage the surrounding landscape, and to ultimately become a premier center for American Indian culture.

Affordable Higher Education:

A lobbying effort on behalf of affordable higher education would attempt to provide students with student loan relief, lower tuition payments, and reduced textbook prices.

Student Job Opportunities

Lobbying on behalf of student job opportunities will mean working with the local government to increase the number of job possibilities upon graduation from a college in Duluth.

Complete Streets

A complete streets policy ensures that city transportation planners and engineers design streets while keeping all users including walkers, bicyclists, public transit, and personal vehicles in mind. A city wide and statewide complete streets policy would ensure that street designs accomodate those who use them the most.

Student Housing

Lobbying on behalf of student housing would be an effort to provide more affordable and quality housing for students attending college in Duluth. A lobbying effort on behalf of student housing would also mean protecting students' renting rights.

HEAPR

The allocation of HEAPR (Higher Education Assets Preservation Replacement) funds is used to repair, renovate and maintain efficient and safe facilities in teh University of Minnesota sysem.