Speech #2 Proposal

The University of Iowa offers many meal plans to their students. All of the meal plans in one way or another all contain flex meals. Flex meals are supposed to be meals for Iowa students who have purchased them to use them when they want. However, flex meal locations and hours are very limited and can be difficult to use for students.

In this proposal I will address all the limitations around using flex meals only during specific times of the day. In addition, I will discuss the locations that students can use flex meal at currently and what locations should be added to the flex meal plan. For example the limited time to be able to use flex meals at Burge Market place. Another issue is not being allowed to use flex meals at the late night grill at Catlett when it is still university owned.

I have personally not been able to utilize my flex meals at the places I would like. Furthermore, I believe that because the meals are prepaid for they should not be difficult to use. The University makes a lot of money on the meal plans they should at least allow students to use the flex meals they bought when and where they want to.

The resources I will use for this is a survey from students on their use of flex meals as well as the University of Iowa dinning website.