Raise Your Voice in your state
WEST VIRGINIA Campaign Activities
2004-2005:
The WV Campus Compact Student Service and Civic Engagement Conference to be held February 19th & 20th at the Morgantown Radisson is a great opportunity for college students from across the state to think about civic engagement projects in their campus communities.
Highlights on Saturday, February 19th include a workshop led by Senator John Unger, II, D-Berkeley County, on "Making Your Voice Heard on Public Issues: How to Engage in Public Policy."
Keynote speakers include Steve Culbertson, President and CEO of Youth Service America, and Rich Games, Co-Executive Director of AppalYouth Service Learning Project, a division of Sojourners Care Network, and former Executive Director of Indiana Campus Compact.
Participants will also engage in the "For Future Generations: Creating Opportunities for Young Adults in West Virginia" discussion guide created last year by WV Campus Compact schools. On Sunday, students will "Move Their Feet" on work projects at two non-profits in the Morgantown area in need of some helping hands, Rock Forge Neighborhood House and Scott's Run Settlement House.
For more information, visit www.wvu.edu/~wvcc.
See 2005 Month of Action events in West Virginia
2003-2004:
June ‘03 Member institutions identify new and additional student leaders for student leadership teams. On June 23-24, service learning contacts and student leadership team members attend West Virginia Center for Civic Life’s two-day training on promoting civic engagement through public deliberation. Participants learn to moderate discussions of public issues, how to engage students in public dialog and work, and network with others to build civic engagement in the state.
July ‘03 Student leadership team members discuss the 2002 “America’s Role in the World Today” national issue forums at the State Conference on Volunteerism, Community Service, and Service Learning in Charleston, WV.
September ‘03 WV Campus Compact and WV Center for Civic Life host a day–and-a-half workshop for all student leadership team members and advisors. Students receive refresher training in hosting a deliberative community forum, construct interview questions, and identify research assignments for materials preparation.
September – October ‘03 Student leadership team members conduct research and interviews as part of data collection for forum materials.
October ‘03 Student leadership team members reconvene for a day-long meeting to construct a balanced framework based on their interviews, and determine additional steps needed for production of an issue guide and video to be tested in their communities.
December ’03 Preliminary issue framework is completed.
January ’04 Student leadership team members conduct community forums to test the preliminary framework
January ’04 Student leadership team members travel to Charleston, WV to interview state legislators, as well as identify legislators willing to present a resolution in support of service-learning and youth civic engagement.
February ’04 Student leadership team members convene for a day to evaluate and revise framework, prepare post-forum questionnaires, and a moderator guide for the forums.
February ’04 As part of National Campus Compact’s Raise Your Voice: A Month of Action, student leadership teams will travel to Charleston, WV for meetings with state legislators who present the resolution for service-learning and youth civic engagement.
Mid-March ’04 Student leadership teams organize community forums on campuses.
April ’04 Student leadership teams and participants conduct community-based activities related to the issue they have discussed.
May ’04 Final press conference organized by WV Campus Compact and WV Center for Civic Life to inform the public about the results of the year’s activities.
2002-2003:
WV Campus Compact initiated Raise Your Voice activities in 2002 with the National Issues Forum, “America’s Role in the World.” Students received moderator training to lead deliberative discussions with WV Campus Compact’s partner, WV Center for Civic Life. Coinciding with the onset of the US-led Iraq War, the forums held on 10 college campuses brought a broad range of discussion to campus communities. Their success resulted in a grant for the two organizations from the Appalachian Regional Commission and National Campus Compact for the 2003-2004 academic years.
WV Campus Compact’s second-round of community forums will allow students to have a hand in creating their own deliberative discussion framework. Students will create their own discussion guide and video presentation after comprehensive interview and issue framing work relating to young adults and the future of West Virginia.
See 2003 Week of Action events in West Virginia.
Press:
• The Huntington Herald-Dispatch (Huntington, WV),
September 28, 2003: “Students seek input on population issue/Project aims to gather ideas about how to keep young people in W.Va.”
For more information, contact:
Kelly Regan, program assistant
West Virginia Campus Compact
109 White Hall, P.O. Box 6412
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-8761, ext. 4480
Kelly.Regan@mail.wvu.edu
www.wvu.edu/~oslp/
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