Student Campaigns

In this social action model, students choose the campaigns to work on, and they can be from a conservative, liberal, or no ideological perspective. The campaigns must be non-violent and cannot break the UN Declaration of Human Rights. The key is that students learn to do democracy, which is a goal of higher education.

In this process, students engage in: (1) issue development (i.e., developing demands and a target), (2) building power, (3) tactics, and (4) campaign launch & implementation. If student teams do these four core activities, we have found that it allows for social action to take place, (i.e., where students work on campaigns to enact a policy change on campus or in the community by making demands of a target or decision-maker).