Launching the Campaign on Your Campus:

BROKERING RESOURCES AND INSTITUTIONAL ENERGY

Raise Your Voice A Week of Action, February 16 – 22, 2003, is being sponsored by Campus Compact to increase, celebrate, and deepen the student civic engagement efforts on college campuses around the country. During this week, national student groups and higher education will speak in a collective voice about the importance of promoting student civic engagement. Events that galvanize students will be planned and organized on campuses around the country that attempt creatively to activate a large number of students in the democratic process. Although the specific activities and events taking place during this week will vary from campus to campus, all will facilitate opportunities for students to speak out and act to create a more vibrant democracy. These events could also be connected with festivals, sporting events, concerts, cookouts, or other attention grabbing activities that attract students not previously engaged.

POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL ACTIVITIES

Raise Your Voice - A Week of Action
February 16th - 22nd, 2003

• Host a “town hall” meeting on or off campus for anyone in the local and campus community to discuss the role and relationship of students to issues beyond the campus.
• Celebrate the multiple campus “peaks” and accomplishments at your own institution with a dinner or other public event, or through a series of events related to the Week.
• Consider announcing any service-learning or community service awards that your campus or your students have recieved during the Week.
• Suggest to your Instructional Technology and Library staff that the Campus Compact student web site www.actionforchange.org be made as a “homepage” on campus computers for the entire week.
• Participate in student radio or television interviews around student civic engagement.
• Hold a reception for local, regional, or state officials and legislators to meet with students or attend a student panel around issues of student voice in state and local government.
• Work with the Admission’s office to hold an open house during this time, and ask a few student groups to provide service activities for the prospective students.
• Create times and places for students and faculty to present the work they have done or are doing that examines theoretical or applied issues of democracy and civic engagement.
• Work with other presidents in your state, perhaps through your state or regional association of presidents, to release a state wide presidential/student public issues statement, co-authored with your state’s student leaders.
• Invite other presidents to your campus to discuss with your students and faculty what activities are happening across the state.
• Write, or co-author with a student, an article or editorial for the local or student newspaper.

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