| Raise
Your Voice: Student Action for Change
This site is dedicated to connecting, challenging, and
supporting college and university students in community
work, activism, leadership, and civic growth. Here you
will find practical information, ideas, and resources,
as well as a forum for sharing ideas.
Innovations
in Civic Participation
Founded in 2001, ICP is a non-profit social change organization
that provides expertise, ideas, information, research,
and advocacy support in the United States and around
the world to develop and strengthen policies and programs
that promote civic engagement through service. ICP works
with government representatives, non-profits, community-based
organizations and educational institutions to support
and strengthen service policy worldwide.
The Student Activist Network provides critical information about civil
rights issues, particularly affirmative action, and gives students tools to
take action on their campuses and in their communities. The site also
showcases student leaders and the work they are doing in support
of affirmative action.
Partners Against Hate is a collaboration
among the Anti-Defamation League, the
Leadership Conference Education Fund,
and the Center for the Prevention of
Hate Violence. This collaboration provides
the public with hate crime-related information,
resources, news reports, and effective
counteraction tools in the fight against
youth-initiated hate violence.
Alvarado provides a brief overview
of recent student activism from various
colleges, illustrating the range and
influence of student activism on campuses
today.
USSA is a national student organization
dedicated to student access to higher
education. USSA lobbies on behalf of
students on Capitol Hill, in the White
House, and in the Department of Education
and provides up-to-date information
on the legislative process and issues
affecting access to education to students
nationwide.
Angelina Mercado explains how she
became an effective student activist
at Connecticut College within the Coalition
Against the Contract with America.
Jose Calderon at Pitzer College describes
his experience as a faculty member --and
the dilemmas and discoveries of his
students-- in an Alternative Spring
Break organized around the United Farm
Worker movement. |
