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Host an event on college affordability or young people and debt
Campus Progress can help you organize an event on student debt, credit cards, and college affordability issues on your campus. We can help you develop the concept, find speakers, cover their travel costs, publicize the event, and more. If you are interested in hosting an event, click here.
Start campaigns for college affordability on your campus
Are you facing a giant tuition hike? Is financial aid in your state about to be cut? Is your school giving more money to wealthy students than to low-income applicants? Do you want to send a message to Congress to improve federal financial aid programs? Campus Progress would love to help you do something about it. We offer Action Grants to students working on or starting campaigns on just about every issue under the progressive sun, including college affordability. In addition to funds, we can help you with planning, media, training, publicity, networking with policy experts and other organizations, and more. For more information, email organize@campusprogress.org, or click here.
Share your story on college affordability or student debt
Campus Progress is often contacted by reporters writing, recording, or filming stories about student debt and related issues, and they are often interested in speaking to a student about their experiences with this issue. If you have had difficulty with your student loans, have struggled to pay for a college education, or are a young person that has had trouble with credit card debt, we can help you share it with the public and lawmakers. You can use this form to tell us your story, and we will be in touch about opportunities to speak with the press, ideas for writing an op-ed, or other opportunities to make an impact on college affordability and debt.
Another great way to make your voice heard on this issue is to submit a video testimonial to I’m Voting For, which is a Campus Progress Action campaign to focus attention on young people’s issues for the 2008 election. Campus Progress Action is asking young people around the country to send in short video testimonials explaining what issue is driving them to the polls, and why that issue is important to them. They are then sending these videos to the media outlets that are covering the election and the campaigns competing to win them. Campus Progress Action is also looking for Campus Video Coordinators, which are volunteers who want to help collect testimonials for the campaign.
Use the power of the pen to educate and expose bad policies and practices
The financial aid system was rocked by scandal in 2007 as one conflict of interest after another was exposed in financial aid offices. Good investigation by several media outlets and state attorneys general helped open the door for significant reforms of the financial aid system. You can do the same!
Are there conflicts of interest in your financial aid office? Check out our guide, Honest Lending, Fair Lending, to learn how to find out. You could also research your state and school’s financial aid policies – Do they favor wealthier applicants or low-income students? Are all high school students getting the information and counseling they need to successfully apply for college? Why not?
Campus Progress can help in two ways. First, we would love to help you with your article or op-ed – email organize@campusprogress.org with your story idea, and we can help you find the information, angles, and sources that you need. Finally, Campusprogress.org, our online publication by and for young people, would love to see your ideas for an article on this issue. Click here to learn how to submit an article.
Join the Campus Progress Student Network
Campus Progress Student Representatives work to strengthen the progressive movement on their campuses, and work on exciting issues like college affordability, climate change, and the ending the war in Iraq. To learn more about becoming a Student Rep, click here.
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