Events in New York
Daemen College:
The Center for Sustainable Communities and Civic Engagement at Daemen College proposes to hold a bi-partisan forum on civic engagement and the role of youth in the political process and their communities. The forum will feature the leaders of the Erie County Democratic and Republican Parties and be moderated by the Executive Director of the Washington, DC-based Forum for Youth Investment. Following the forum, we will hold a concert by noted singer-activist Ani DiFranco or one of her label’s other artists. We anticipate 400 students in the audience, with 100 of them Buffalo high school student-leaders and 300 of them Daemen students. If funded, this project will serve to leverage additional resources from our campus and community.
Hamilton College:
Activities that promote awareness of hunger and homelessness are planned for Raise Your Voice - A Week of Action. The Hamilton Community will be able to participate in activities that raise awareness about hunger and homelessness and give back to our community (on both a local and international level).
Hobart and William Smith Colleges:
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A variety of activities over the course of the week will explore different dimensions of civic engagement from the personal (donating blood and direct service projects) to the political (voter registration drive) and local to global. Students will have the opportunity to be involved in a number of direct service activities, learn about and become members of activist clubs and organizations, voice their opinions on local engagement and their relationships with the greater Geneva community, provide input that will go to the Colleges’ Board of Trustees, learn about service opportunities after graduation and discuss national and global issues of student concern
Le Moyne College:
Le Moyne College C.R.A.V.E. will educate students about the crisis of violence in Syracuse and will invite them to discuss their response to this. In addition to educational displays throughout the week, there will be three main events: 1. A panel discussion involving Syracuse community leaders, a sociology professor and a Le Moyne student; 2. Student facilitated interactive dialogue circles with students and citizens of Syracuse who work or participate in programs at local neighborhood centers; 3. “Children Creating Community”: a party for elementary age children from various neighborhood centers.
Nazareth College of Rochester:
This weeklong program of activities on and off campus is built around the general theme of Civic Engagement: Strategies for Student Involvement and Change. The program will involve individuals, student organizations, faculty members and community leaders in a number of coordinated events. These events will emphasize both action and reflection with the goals of extending the boundaries of the college beyond the campus and encouraging students to focus on solutions to community issues
Niagara University:
Three projects are planned for Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action which will involve at least 150 Niagara University students, approximately 300 community members including elementary students and the developmentally disabled and at least 100 staff and administrators of the Niagara University community. The events are 1) an address by a locally prominent sports figure who is involved in community service activities; 2) a campus wide book drive focusing on providing books for elementary aged students in a school in the Niagara Falls City School district on historical figures, local and national history and fiction that centers on social justice issues; and 3) an evening of gym and social activities on campus for the developmentally disabled hosted by Niagara University students.
Onondaga Community College:
Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action will have a week of service activities engaging the entire campus, highlighted by a national keynote speaker on civic engagement. The objective is to increase faculty awareness of value of service-learning and to inform the campus community about the needs of local service providers.
Pace University:
Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action on the Pace Campus will be marked by two dynamic panel discussions including one titled “Changing the World, My Way!” Through this panel representing true political and organizational diversity, we hope to achieve several things – To reach a very large audience, to bring in the relatively uninvolved business school students and to reveal the myriad ways to get involved and truly make a difference. The week will culminate in two days of hands on community action at Body Positive, and HIV-AIDS Awareness Organization and Sanctuary for Families, an organization for survivors of domestic violence.
Rochester Institute of Technology:
RIT, through the Student leadership Corps and the RIT Learn and Serve America project, proposes to sponsor two forums on civic engagement on February 16 and 17. The forum on the 16th will be a student forum and will feature one of the National Campus Compact Howard R. Shearer 2002 award honorees. The forum on the 17th will be a community and student leadership forum to be held in the northeast neighborhood of the City of Rochester to highlight RIT’s partnership with the Northeast Neighborhood Alliance. In addition, we will set up information tables in the RIT student union during the entire week of Civic Engagement to inform students of the Raise You r Voice campaign of the National Campus Compact and to promote opportunities for civic engagement in the Rochester community.
State University of New York at Binghamton:
Four Binghamton University offices and a variety of student groups that represent a broad diverse coalition have joined together to organize activities to highlight the issues of hunger and homelessness during Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action. The activities include an Empty Bowl Dinner, Community Projects, a canned food drive and a non-profit careers event.
State University of New York at Plattsburgh:
Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action at Plattsburgh State University will be recognized February 17-21. Activities will include one-time volunteer opportunities, a club fair, speakers, a faculty reception, and a Center for Service Learning & Volunteerism Open House. Kevin Michael Days, a PSU alumnus and Executive Director of NYCC, will visit PSU for two days during the week and will speak to administrators, students, and faculty about the value of service learning and volunteerism.
State University of New York at Oswego:
SUNY Oswego proposes organizing a week of awareness building programs to call attention to Raise Your Voice- A Week of Action. Our objective will be to sequence special programs, partner with academic departments and organize a service project to emphasize the importance of student civic involvement on our campus and in the community.
Wagner College:
This forum would build on relationships developed with NYCID (NY Center for Interpersonal Development) and other community members since 8/02 through Wagner’s Academic & Cultural Enrichment (ACE) program. NYCID has led 7 groups entitled: “The Mosaic Project: Study Circles to promote cultural awareness” throughout S.I. Members of numerous community groups attend with Wagner College students. The forum on 2/19/03 would draw on the NYCID work as well as other ties between Wagner and the communities to bring diverse communities of SI and their leaders together with political, economic, and educational leaders and our students. The forum would start with a study circle to promote interaction and follow with a discussion on ways to use civic action and engage people not usually involved in community work to improve our community.
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