About the SEA

We meet regularly on Thursdays at 4:30-6:00 pm in the UM-Dearborn Environmental Interpretive Center (Meeting schedule TBD for Autumn of 2012)!


Vision:

Make the social, economic, and ecological environment accessible and relevant to current and future students through quality events, re-creational activities, stewardship, civic engagement, and ultimately cultivating a more vibrant, sustainable community on and around campus.

To achieve this, we refer to our Mission:  

 The SEA informs, educates, and empowers students to acknowledge the greater community; engage their environment; develop a sense of wonder; and take informed, compassionate, sustainable action for social responsibility, economic prosperity, and ecological integrity.
 

Thanks for visiting us!  The Student Environmental Association (SEA) of UM-D is dedicated to complementing the educational experience of students. We provide students the chance to take an active part in sustainability, environmental education, conservation, and civic engagement beyond watching it on television or reading about it in a textbook. Join us and engage the environment with a hands-on, community approach to our many fun outings, programs, and other activities throughout the year.  We encourage students from all walks of life and every major of study to explore what our group has to offer, and firmly believe that everyone can make a difference to the world around us for the better.  Who can we define as students?  Anyone sincerely willing to learn.

Officers (Current and Former) The SEA has a storied, and in some places in the timeline, mysterious history.  The following individuals have served or are serving as the SEA's officership. 2011-2012 (Present): Winter 2012 President: Kristen LeForce Vice President: Vacant* Secretary: Jason Shweder Treasurer: Megan McGregor Autumn 2011 President: Sarai Richter Vice President: Sara Husseini Secretary: Kristen LeForce Treasurer: Megan McGregor 2010-2011:  Joint year for SEA and new Jane Goodall Institute Roots and Shoots Chapter at UM-Dearborn President: Ian Tran Secretary and Official Photographer: Chuck Ford "Web monitor lizard": Dana Wloch Roots and Shoots President:  Elijah Deogracias Roots and Shoots Vice Presidents*: Lynn Hausch, Jenna Thie  Roots and Shoots Secretary: Natalie Ray 2009-2010: President: Ian Tran Vice President: Tishia Browning Secretary and Photographer: Chuck Ford   Treasurer: Erik Tuttle 2008-2009: President: Deirdre Devlin 2007-2008: President: Nabilah Ikram 2006-2007: President:  Eric Bacyinski  Vice President:  Emily Johnson Secretary and Webmaster: Nabilah Ikram   Treasurer: Mary Le About the SEA's "Triple Bottom/Top Line" Banner The triple bottom line banner was initially made in haste to promote campus Sustainability fest in 2009 by Ian Tran via a wonderful program called paint.net . The chosen fonts included Impact and Palatino Linotype (the latter being referred to as a humanist font in some typographic circles--few of us really understand why it's called that, please let us know if you do)--together it was a typographic geek's nod to the impact of human[ist]s! The primary colors were chosen since they make for bold imagery and many people learn that these colors can mix to comprise many other colors (at least under old school color theory). The three lines were a literal depiction of a concept used to understand the constituent elements of sustainability called "The Triple Bottom (or top) Line"--society, environment, and economy must be considered comprehensively in all our actions to squarely address the problems at hand and make the world a better place. The red went to people--in gesture to our blood, heart, or passion (society, people), blue to the blue planet (environment), and gold for its association with money (profit, economy). Please note that theoretical research suggests that the "triple bottom line" concept is misleading in its label, but has valid and useful origins in what several scholars call "the sustainability triad"--the interconnecting domains of environment, society, and economy remain important and useful nonetheless. [Hmm... if anyone has advice about cleaning up the html, please let us know--I frankenhacked the formatting to make two columns and now the message below saying "Code corrupted.  Please insert fresh copy."]

Affiliations (Current and Former)  The Student Environmental Association at the University of Michigan-Dearborn is proud to be affiliated with the following organizations and initiatives: The Sierra Club Cool Cities group/Dearborn Sustainability Association (SEA was a founding member) Engineering Society of Detroit, Student Chapter of the Affiliate Council (SEA members also can get Affiliate Council member benefits like insurance discounts, etc.) Jane Goodall Institute Roots and Shoots initiative, Student Chapter Member The University of Michigan Student Sustainability Initiative The EverGreen Team: The University of Michigan-Dearborn's campus sustainability panel comprised of faculty, staff, and students The Association of Student Anthropologists at the University of Michigan-Dearborn Students in Free Enterprise University of Michigan-Dearborn Chapter (Sustainability Fest 2010) The Art History Association of the University of Michigan-Dearborn The Microbiology Club of the University of Michigan-Dearborn The Organization for Earth Studies at the University of Michigan-Dearborn