Summer of Transparency '09: A Sad Goodbye

Submitted by Ian Mikusko on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 23:53

The Summer of Transparency '09 began with great hoopla (read: a post on Stir It Up)....and it ends with a bang (read: another post on Stir It Up). Though it's sad that the inaugural Summer of Transparency is finally over (yes I know it's the middle of October--as we all know transparency runs on a different schedule than the calendar seasons) the results are encouraging.

Through the combined efforts of students and Stir It Up moderators, we've been able to obtain dozens of food service contracts. We've been slacking a little bit on adding these contracts to Stir It Up contract database, but just completed part one of our two part contract database update bonanza.

If your contract doesn't appear in the database, check out our Freedom of Information Act guide to learn how to obtain your school's food service contract. You can see all of the contracts we have posted in our contract database, but here's a shortcut to many of the ones we've recently added. Let us know if you have a contract to add or need advice trying to get your school's food service contract. In no particular order: