United Naropa

Contact: sunofficers@naropa.edu
Minutes from UN Meetings Available
“As for the students themselves, they should have certain chosen leaders or representatives, selected within each field of study. Some guidelines as to what sort of individuals these representatives should be are:

• Sympathetic to the overall development of the university;
• Insightful and willing to be critical;
• Having a certain basic sophistication in their vision of fellow students and in general;
• Free from dogma, fads and subjective trips;
• Dedicated to a sense of personal journey rather than self-aggrandizement.”

—Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche

UN Mission
Through a functional, cohesive student driven democracy, the UN provides students with a forum in which to voice their concerns, issues, questions, ideas and interests; provides faculty and staff with a direct avenue for communication with students; and creates an inclusive community that does not react to injustice, but acts in the stance of justice.

What Does the UN Do?

• Secures representation from academic departments
• Elects the board of trustees student representative, who also must be an active UN member
• Bridges communication gaps between departments and students
• Communicates to their respective departments and students
• Seats student representatives on administrative committees at Naropa, including the board of trustees
• Gathers students voices regarding educational experience and concerns
• Provides students with avenues for action
• Actively engages in retention and support of underrepresented groups
• Engages students about their responsibility for classroom atmosphere and academic learning
• Creates an ongoing newsletter or direct communication of the UN's work