Running Campaigns On Your Campus

Here are some of the Student PIRG campaigns that you can get involved with on your campus. Check out these websites for campaign info, resources, and support.

Campus Climate Challenge: Global warming is all over the news right now, but almost no one is talking about solutions — even though we have everything we need right now to solve the problem. We already have cars that can get over 100 miles per gallon. We already have the technology to get most of our energy from wind and solar power. All we need now is the leadership to make it happen.That’s where students come in. This is our problem, and it’s up to us to solve it, starting right here on campus, right now.
Affordable Textbooks: Students spend an average of $900 a year on textbooks, which is equivalent to 20% of tuition at an average university or half of tuition at a community college. Our campaign to Make Textbooks Affordable is calling on publishers to stop using practices that drive up the cost of textbooks, including issuing unnecessary new editions and bundling extra materials with books.
New Voters Project: The Student PIRGs' New Voters Project is a nonpartisan campaign dedicated to increasing voter turnout among 18-24 year olds. In 2004, the New Voters Project succeeded in becoming the largest nonpartisan youth voter mobilization effort in history, registering over 500,000 new voters and contacting them to remind them to vote. In fall 2006, we ran the nation’s largest nonpartisan youth voter mobilization campaign in a midterm election, working on over 80 college campuses in 25 states to register and turn out young people to vote.
Student Debt Alert : College is already too expensive - with skyrocketing tuition and cuts in education funding, most students are going deeper in debt to pay for college, and 40,000 qualified students forgo college each year because they can't afford it. A full 39% of student borrowers graduate with unmanageable levels of federal student loan debt. Our Student Debt Alert campaign is working to show our leaders that we need them to do more to help.
Hunger and Homelessness: Despite the fact that we live in the wealthiest nation on Earth, millions of Americans go hungry or homeless. The National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness is committed to ending hunger and homelessness in America by educating, engaging, and training students to directly meet individuals' immediate needs through service and fundraising while also advocating for long-term systemic solutions.

Water Watch: Community Water Watch works to clean up the most polluter waterways in Massachusetts and New Jersey. Water Watch organizes waterway cleanups, runs monitoring programs, and heads education and outreach efforts that offer local citizens a hands-on opportunity to engage themselves in water quality issues - while having an immediate impact on the health of their local waterways.