Projects
The Students’ Union is one of Laurier’s largest partners in student satisfaction. Through the Student Life Levy (SLL), the Students’ Union has provided millions in funding to enhance the undergraduate student experience on both the Waterloo and Brantford campuses. Laurier is proud of this partnership that has empowered students to create projects and programs that build leadership skills and enhance student life.
Featured Stories
Check out these projects completed by Laurier faculty, staff and students, made possible with the support of the SLL.
- More Hawk Express lockers added to Brantford campus
- Laurier Dean of Students Offices distributes care kits ahead of final exam period
- Three SLL-funded short documentary films by Laurier students featured at the United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals Global Festival of Action
- New student lounge planned for Laurier's One Market building
- Laurier's Student Affairs team members 'cook up' fund during Crock-Pot Kitchen Party
Explore Past Projects
7
Number of Applicants Received
5
Number of Projects Funded
$63,544.00
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- Brantford Digital Signage Renewal Project, $15,000.00
- Laurier 101 First-Year Experience Program, $32,044.00
- CPAC Community Physical Activity Challenge, $6,250.00
- Enhancing student research through an education research centre on the Brantford campus, $7,750.00
- Instabot for the ALC, $2,500.00
11
Number of Applicants Received
10
Number of Projects Funded
$121,269.25
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- ACERS: Undergraduate Research Initiatives - Display Space, $1,149.25
- Wellness Hub Enhancement Project, $4,000.00
- Career Wellness Week, $6,500.00
- Odeon Lobby Redesign, $20,600.00
- Laurier Brantford Distro Start Up & Promotion, $2,000.00
- Winter’s A Drag, $21,500.00
- Human Rights and Sexual Violence Portfolio Prevention and Education Support, $31,500.00
- Golden Rules Program - Sensory Kits, $3,750.00
- Wellness Kits for Students Participating in Experiential Learning, $11,270.00
- Build-A-Care Workshop, $19,000.00
9
Number of Applicants Received
6
Number of Projects Funded
$44,583.90
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $1,163.90 - Isuma—Atanarjuat Anniversary Film Screening and Colloquium (Waterloo)
- $4,800.00 - International Students Overcoming War (ISOW) Scholar Journey Documentary (Waterloo)
- $1,800.00 - Laurier Brantford Creates! (Brantford)
- $2,820.00 - Hawk 2 Hawk: Stories of Connection Through Conversation (Multi-campus)
- $3,750.00 - The Human Rights Hub (Multi-campus)
- $30,250.00 - Ka’shatsténshera: The Power & Unity of Music, A Coming Together of Laurier Indigenous Music Makers (Multi-campus)
25
Number of Applicants Received
16
Number of Projects Funded
$1,578,484
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $14,000 – Pathways to Skill-Building in Times of Uncertainty (Multi-campus)
- $2,500 – Cooking Through COVID (Multi-campus)
- $4,500 – Masculinity and Mental Health Week (Multi-campus)
- $6,520 – Virtual Keynote Event (Multi-campus)
- $18,000 – Distant but Together: Creating Inclusive Online Communities (Multi-campus)
- $26,420 – U-Desk Tech Share (Multi-campus)
- $15,876.39 – Student Loan Laptops (Multi-campus)
- $10,368 – Bleed Red, Go Green Depot (Multi-campus)
- $8,425 – Student Care Kits (Multi-campus)
- $9,300 – DIY Art Took Kits (Waterloo campus)
- $2,585 – Safe to Run: Bystander Intervention Training (Waterloo campus)
- $1.3 million – Alumni Field (Waterloo campus) *Note: Contingent on referendum being passed
- $5,000 – The Youth Climate Report Filmmaking Initiative (Waterloo campus)
- $6,000 – Virtual Photo – research exhibit (Waterloo campus)
- $1,000 – Alumni Hockey Game Jerseys (Brantford campus)
- $147,990 – One Market Student Lounge (Brantford campus)
11
Number of Applicants Received
8
Number of Projects Funded
$1,057,040
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $35,000 – Quiet Study Lounge (Waterloo)
- $16,150 – Peer Support Pilot (Waterloo)
- $961,000 – 2-4 Lounge Upgrade (Waterloo)
- $2,775 – Northdale community garden, address food insecurity (Waterloo)
- $14,000 – Baby Changing Tables (Multi Campus)
- $16,000 – Launch of the Food Insecurity programming (Multi Campus)
- $600 – Podcast Accelerator Scholarships (Brantford)
- $11,515 – Wellness Hub – Sensory room in one market (Brantford)
29
Number of Applicants Received
14
Number of Projects Funded
$129,561.88
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $7,000 – International Students Overcoming War (ISOW) President (Multi)
- $11,100 – Inclusive Washroom Initiative (Multi)
- $7,136 – WLU Menstrual Equity Committee Student Lead (Multi)
- $685 – Free Yoga Class (Waterloo)
- $4,149.36 – Expansion of Educational Aids (Waterloo)
- $24,000 – New tutoring offices for student learning and modify the Accessible Learning and Student SU (Waterloo)
- $3,000 – Writing for Your Life (Waterloo)
- $10,355.13 – Installation – Study Tables and Chairs and/or Lounge Chairs with Tablets – 3rd Floor Schlegel Building (Waterloo)
- $16,587.84 – Laptop Loaners (Waterloo)
- $19,000 – Student Safe Place Project (Waterloo)
- $1,500 – Global Hackathon (Waterloo)
- $13,500 – The Symposium for Male Ally ship on Campus (Waterloo)
- $8,000 – Laurier Brantford YMCA Gymnasium Floor Covering (Brantford)
- $3,548.55 – Impairment Goggle Simulation Program (Brantford)
21
Number of Applicants Received
11
Number of Projects Funded
$83,742.24
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $1,720 – Full Spectrum Light Therapy Lamps (multi-campus)
- $10,000 – Laurier Cares (multi-campus)
- $5,814.32 – Education Aids for the Faculty of Music (Waterloo)
- $10,000 – Campus and community mural in Peters Building (Waterloo)
- $1,688.37 – Best Buddies Laurier Semi-Formal (Waterloo)
- $16,450 – Furnishing Learning Labs for Writing, Math, and Statistics Support (Waterloo)
- $2,500 – Social Innovation Summit (Waterloo)
- $10,000 – Indigenous Student Experiential Learning Opportunity (Waterloo)
- $2,111 – Lend Your Leg (Waterloo)
- $20,000 – Wings to Fly Art Project (Brantford)
- $3,458.55– The Peace Conference: Practices in Bettering Our Collective Human Experience (Brantford)
35
Number of Applicants Received
15
Number of Projects Funded
$145,388.43
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $1,400 – A documentary: Speaking through the Doorway
- $3,187.50 – #DistractinglyExcellent: Celebrating Accomplished Women in Science (multi-campus)
- $4,675 – Changemaker Innovation Challenge by Wilfrid Laurier University an AshokaU Changemaker Campus (multi-campus)
- $7,000 – Wellness and Healing Initiative for Marginalized Students (multi-campus)
- $1,000 – Fashion For Freedom (Brantford campus)
- $20,000 – Student Centre Lounge (Brantford campus)
- $49,446.50 – Workshop Room P224 (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – Solarium Furniture Renewal (Waterloo campus)
- $11,876.45 – Synthetic Cadaver Immersion Tables (Waterloo campus)
- $10,000 – Yuva Arts Project (Waterloo campus)
- $4,961.28 – Maureen Forrester Recital Hall Lighting Upgrade (Waterloo campus)
- $2,500 – Faculty of Arts Student Lounge (Waterloo campus)
- $8,248.60 – Music Symposium Pilot Project (Waterloo campus)
- $849.60 – Laurier Wellness in Film Festival (Waterloo campus)
- $5,081 – ISOW Day at Laurier (Waterloo campus)
17
Number of Applicants Received
11
Number of Projects Funded
$349,758.36
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $32,500 – Sustainability Through an Inclusive Lens (multi-campus)
- $2,000 – Mental Health Preparation for International Travel (multi-campus)
- $160,000 – Nadjiwan Kandassowin Gamik - Beautiful Place of Learning (Waterloo campus)
- $1,650 – Stationary Bikes for Learning (Waterloo campus)
- $25,000 – The Laurier Community Hub – a workspace for collaborative and community-engaged work (Waterloo campus)
- $1,750 – Indigenous Maker Workshop (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – Volleyball Equipment for Athletic Complex (Waterloo campus)
- $21,800 – Study Space in Athletic Complex (Waterloo campus)
- $3,358.36 – Enhanced Injury Rehabilitation and Student Learning Opportunities (Waterloo campus)
- $6,700 – Women's Cricket at Laurier (Waterloo campus)
- $90,000 – Student Centre Multipurpose Room Repurposing (Brantford campus)
27
Number of Applicants Received
17
Number of Projects Funded
$84,679.04
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
33
Number of Applicants Received
17
Number of Projects Funded
$98,304.49
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $13,180.24 – Phone Charging Stations (multi-campus)
- $20,000 – Establishment of gaming collection at Laurier Library (multi-campus)
- $3,105 – MUSE Headbands for the Wellness Centre (multi-campus)
- $6,260 – Kendal Netmaker Speaker at Laurier (multi-campus)
- $3,996 – Syria Film Festival (multi-campus)
- $3,850 – Tom Jackson: Song and Story (Waterloo campus)
- $1,200 – Terry Fox Run - Health Sciences (Waterloo campus)
- $3,000 – Laurier Pedometer Challenge (Waterloo campus)
- $1,950 – "We've got your back": High quality study chairs for students with disabilities (Waterloo campus)
- $5,303.25 – Sixth Annual SCMS Undergraduate Film Studies Conference (Waterloo campus)
- $7,581.16 – Acquired a safe and approved vacuum former (Waterloo campus)
- $4,908.84 – The Laurier Musical (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – Inclusive washroom signage (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – TEDxWLU Brantford (Brantford campus)
- $10,000 – Creating an accessible medicine garden (Brantford campus)
- $1,000 – Go Abroad student panel event (Brantford campus)
- $2,970 – Business social etiquette (Brantford campus)
19
Number of Applicants Received
12
Number of Projects Funded
$198,142.52
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $30,000 – Building a Physically Active Classroom (Waterloo campus)
- $35,568 – Bystander Training: A Made in Laurier Training Program (Multi-campus)
- $8,500 – Enactus Laurier's PolliNation Program's Pollinator Garden Project (Waterloo campus)
- $7,500 – Financial Literacy: Online Resources (Multi-campus)
- $10,000 – LBTV Software Upgrades (Brantford campus)
- $9,300 – MacBook Loaner Laptops (Multi-campus)
- $7,866 – Pilot Project to expand the I Move My Mood program (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – Pre-departure Symposium: Studying Abroad During Uncertain Times (Multi-campus)
- $600 – Social Justice Mini Conference (Waterloo campus)
- $42,408 – Student Exploration and Prototyping Space (Waterloo campus)
- $40,000 – Turret Renewal: Phase 2 (Waterloo campus)
- $1,400 – Welcoming Community Engagement at the Laurier Library (Waterloo campus)
22
Number of Applications Received
15
Number of Projects Funded
$108,847
Total Amount of Funding Awarded
Approved Projects
- $4,000 – An Event for Social Justice: Education and Community Building through the Arts (Multi campus)
- $31,000 – A Tribe Called Red for Aboriginal Education Week (Waterloo campus)
- $8,228 – CityStudio Brantford (Brantford campus)
- $7,500 – FLASS Presents Special Guest Speaker Molly Burke from Me to We (Brantford campus)
- $7,500 – Formal Gala (Brantford campus)
- $5,347 – Laurier Musical Theatre Presents: Footloose the Musical! (Waterloo campus)
- $400 – One Love Gala (Brantford campus)
- $2,358 – Student Club and Tournament Equipment (Waterloo campus)
- $5,000 – Student Wellness through Neuro-Biofeedback (Brantford campus)
- $800 – Team Up Against Concussions (Waterloo campus)
- $3,250 – The Hawk Mascot (Waterloo campus)
- $22,500 – The Library in High Definition: Film, Data Visualization, and Artist Video Project (Waterloo campus)
- $1,642 – Tonight You Will Meet My Brilliant Friend (Waterloo campus)
- $3,400 – Wen-Do Women's Self-Defence (Multi campus)
- $5,900 – Winter Carnival Mystery Event (Waterloo campus)
- $500,000 – Alumni Field Project (2005-2008)
- $250,000 – Athletic Complex Change Room Upgrade (2011-2012)
- $750,000 – Athletic Complex Bleacher Replacement (2015-2016)
- $6,057 – Brantford Campus Commuter Lounge
- $30,000 – Brantford Foot Patrol Van Replacement (2015-2016)
- $34,000 – Campus Emergency Response Revisioning (2011-2012)
- $85,000 – Concourse Revitalization Project (2010-2011)
- $63,622 – Empowering Students to Prevent Gendered Violence (2013-2014)
- $88,000 – FNCC 24 Student Lounge (2012-2013)
- $40,000 – John Aird Centre Faculty of Music Student Lounge (2013-2014)
- $11,670 – Laurier Mobile Safety App (2014-2015)
- $10,000 – Learning Out Loud About... Race: The Series (2015-2016)
- $25,390 – Security Asset Intelligence Mapping for Campus Safety (2014-2015)
- $7,935 – Short Term Laptop Loan Program - Year Round to any Students attending Laurier (2016-2017)
- $32,473 – Signature Covered Bike Structure (2011-2012)
- $125,000 – Student Wellness Centre Renovation Project (2013-2014)
- $150,100 – Study Space Quality Improvements - Science Atrium, Bricker Academic Building 2nd Floor, DAWB Upper Floors (2012-2013)
- $21,815 – The Purpose Lab (2015-2016)
- $100,000 – Toyota Solarium Upgrade (2011-2012)
- $8,800 – Wilfrid Laurier University Multi-Campus Indigenous Cultural Literacy & Allyship Education Initiative (2015-2016)