STUDENT INK
NEW! Report of the Student Task Force on Civic Values at Princeton (November 4, 2004)
STUDENT STATEMENTS:
• West Virginia Student Resolution
• Michigan Students’ Civic Engagement Declaration
• Maine Students' Public Issue Statement
• Oklahoma Students' Civic Engagement Resolution
• Statement from Student Leaders at the 2002 COOL Conference
• Student Resolution on Civic Responsibility, from the Conference on Civic Responsibility (http://act.hampshire.edu/)
• Oklahoma Governor's Office Declaration proclaiming February 16-22, 2003 Civic Engagement Week, A Week of Action
• Massachusetts Week of Action Declaration
West Virginia Students with their resolution.
STUDENT WRITINGS:
• NEW! Report of the Student Task Force on Civic Values at Princeton (November 4, 2004)
• The New Greatest Generation, By Gary Schueller, 2002 Swearer Award winner and student at Cornell University.
Click here to read | Click here to download as pdf
• The Student Track - Student Voices: Making Ourselves Heard, By Jenny Elsa Blau, 2002 Swearer Award Winner and recent graduate of Bates College
Click here to read | Click here to download as pdf
• In the Gray: Reflections on the 2002 National Campus Compact Summit, By Summer Stowe, student, Oklahoma State University
Click here to read | Click here to download as pdf
• Mobilizing Service-Learning Students as Advocates, By Jamaal Young, student, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. (Talk It Up: Advocating for Service-Learning - Edition Three, from the National Service-Learning Partnership. Note: You will need to register before you can view this item. Registration is free.)
• College Students Share Their Service Stories, from Montana Campus Compact workshop during the first Governor's Conference on Civic Engagement.
STUDENT NEWSPAPERS
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Associated Collegiate Press
www.studentpress.org/acp/
"The Associated Collegiate Press is a division of the National Scholastic Press Association. Although it had college members since its inception in 1921, ACP was first established as a distinct division in 1933. Today it is the largest and oldest membership organization for college student media in the United States. As a nonprofit educational membership association, ACP is committed to providing professional services to its student members."
The Black Student Alliance Newsletter (University of Tennessee at Knoxville)
web.utk.edu/~bsa/bsanewslet1.html
See also a Special Edition about AIDS/HIV: web.utk.edu/~bsa/bsaaids.html
The Collegiate Network
www.collegiatenetwork.org
"The Home of College Conservative Journalism. The Collegiate Network (CN), a program administered by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, provides support for alternative student publications across the country. There are over seventy member papers in the Network, each of which is a strong champion of Western civilization, the free market, and limited government." Publishes Campus: America's Student Magazine.
The Daily Jolt
www.dailyjolt.com/welcome.html?elton=yes&nesto=no
See if your campus has a daily jolt site. Start one if it doesn't. This is an easy way to start forums and share information
National Student News Service
www.nsns.org
"The mission of the National Student News Service is to promote high quality coverage of student news locally and nationally. We provide a news source for college journalists that focuses on events and opinions effecting and affected by students. Through the distribution of our newswire, we seek to encourage student journalists to focus their news coverage on the student population they serve."
New Voices (Jewish Student Press Service)
www.newvoices.org
"New Voices is America’s only national magazine written by and for Jewish college students. Published since 1991 by the independent, non-profit, student-run Jewish Student Press Service, New Voices is read by nearly 10,000 students on over 300 campuses across the United States."
Student Leader
www.studentleader.com
"Student Leader is the nation’s premier magazine for campus leaders at colleges and universities across the country. Founded in 1992, the magazine now serves hundreds of thousands of students and student affairs professionals."
Student Press Law Center
www.splc.org
"is an advocate for student free-press rights and provides information, advice and legal assistance at no charge to students and the educators who work with them."
Wiretap - youth in pursuit of the dirty truth
www.wiretapmag.org
"WireTap is the independent information source by and for socially conscious youth. We showcase investigative news articles, personal essays and opinions, artwork and activism resources that challenge stereotypes, inspire creativity, foster dialogue and give young people a voice in the media. The WireTap Web portal provides a new generation of writers, artists and activists a space to network, organize and mobilize."
YO! Youth Outlook
www.youthoutlook.org
"YO! Youth Outlook is an award-winning literary monthly journal of youth life in the Bay Area. Featuring in-depth reporting pieces and first-person essays, comic strips and poetry pages, YO! is the communication outlet for youth who feel their voice and visions need to be seen and heard. YO! is a bridge to the world of youth expression."
United States College and University Newspapers - List from the Open Directory Project
dmoz.org/News/Colleges_and_Universities/Newspapers/
United_States/
STUDENT DEFINITIONS OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT:
"Civic engagement is to understand that the life does not consist of what we see from our own perpective and to acknowledge that there are billions of different lives out there worth of examining."
- University of Baltimore, MCU MPA Graduate Program.
"Civic Engagement is the intentional action by individuals to participate in democracy. It is the combination of educating oneself on multiple perspectives of an issue and using ones gifts and talents to advocate on behalf of the educated opinion one gains. It is participation in the process of policy making, recognizing the affect policy has on the individual and community. It is actualized in many forms of action along a continuum from one-time volunteering to a lifestyle of advocacy and participation."
"Civic engagement is simple. Acting upon your cares and concerns within your community. This means actively discussing the issue at hand followed by a direct course of action, whether it is a remedy or an improvement."
"At my college campus, there is a space dedicated to public speaking. Anyone is welcome to approach the mike and speak on an issue of their choice at any moment. This spot is especially popular over the weekends when students conduct dialogues, debates etc. over local, regional and national issues. They range from dealing with the college administration to discussing our country's national policy.
The student government cabinet AND the college senior staff have attended many such 'meetings' to get the community's pulse and work on issues relevant to the students.
Civic engagement? I think so."
-- Tazeem Pasha '04
Wells College, Aurora, NY
Public Affairs major
"Civic Engagement is when people participate in activities voluntary. They want to participate in the activity to make a change for an issue that is important to them or is an issue that they are concerned about."
"Civic engagement is a person or group involved in helping, organizing and volunteering to make the world a better place."
"Fulfilling your resposibility to humanity by doing your own part to improve the world around you to make it a better, more pleasurable place for everyone to live together in harmony."
"Contributing ideas, energy, and focus in a conscious effort to create positive change- Making contributions as a part of a group or individually with a committed focus to a common and better good, one which will foster the enrichment of a conscientious society."
"Involved in the community." |
