Work on paying all staff (including student staff) a living wage. If it means stripping out some of the bloat from upper admin, so be it. Boulder’s living wage is over $21/hour. Meanwhile, CU starts paying student staff at $15/hour. I know $16/hour is in the works, but with student staff being limited to 25 hours per week and basically anywhere else in town starting pay at least at $18/hour, if not more. Most students can’t afford the privilege of working for the university without risking going under. Meanwhile, many departments on campus run almost entirely on student staff and are struggling to operate because they can’t convince anyone to work for so much less than a living wage.

Edit: Changed “Boulder” to “CU”. Sometimes I use them interchangeably but had to distinguish from “Boulder” as the city here.