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).
Pacific Lutheran University
Pacific Lutheran University
University of Michigan
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University of East Anglia
Appalachian State University
Appalachian State University
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Augustana College
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University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Michigan State University
Michigan State University
Rhodes College
Saint Mary's College
Pacific Lutheran University
Saint Mary's College
University of East Anglia
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