NCLC’s Annual Summit in DC
The National Campus Leadership Council holds an annual Summit in Washington, D.C., that brings together incoming and outgoing student body presidents to tackle major issues affecting our generation. More than 100 student leaders will convene in the nation’s capital to connect and set a course for strategic action over the coming year.
Over the last two Summits, more than 200 student body presidents have convened to build a strong community of student leaders that has spread innovative campus initiatives and provided critical leadership on national policy debates. NCLC empowers student leaders to make a meaningful impact on issues like student debt, youth jobs, and campus safety.
This year's Summit is coming up in a few weeks, so time is running out to register. Learn more here.
The Big Event at Texas A&M
The Big Event is a community service event where college students spend a day completing volunteer projects for local residents as a way to say "Thank You" to the community. The event started at Texas A&M University and has now spread to over 100 colleges nationwide. Dozens of student governments organize The Big Event each year as one of their largest service programs.
We interviewed William Nereson, the director of The Big Event at Texas A&M, to find out more about this project.
Please tell us a little bit about who you are: your role with The Big Event, your year, your major, any other background info you’d like to share.
I am an Industrial Distribution major from Boerne, Texas, and a member of the Class of 2014. I have a twin brother. I have had the opportunity to be involved with The Big Event for all four years of college. I started my time in The Big Event as a Staff Assistant. For this year, I have served as the Director of The Big Event.
What is The Big Event? How did the event go in 2014?
The Big Event is the largest student-run service project in the nation. We had 20,503 students participate in The Big Event at Texas A&M in 2014. They completed almost 2,036 jobs in the community.Read more
For Your Reading List
For any student government leaders who have ever been frustrated by the challenge of mobilizing your fellow students (and we're betting that's all of you), we have a recommendation for your reading list: the new edition of "The Impossible Will Take a Little While: Perseverance and Hope in Troubled Times" by Paul Loeb.
The book brings together the voices of eloquent writers to talk about how they replenish the wells of commitment, exploring what keeps them going in the face of constant challenges. Some essays address our current political time, from memoirs of the Arab Spring to dispatches from the environmental movement. Others examine how people persisted in past struggles that could easily have been deemed unwinnable: what it was like to confront South African apartheid, Eastern European dictatorships, Mississippi’s entrenched segregation, or the bigotry that kept gays silent and closeted.Read more
UNC Works to Create Campus Food Pantry
We interviewed a leader from the University of North Carolina Student Government about the student government's efforts to establish a campus food pantry.
Please tell us your name and current position in student government. Please also tell us a little bit about who you are: your year, major, any other background info you’d like to share.
My name is Roderick Gladney and I am a current junior Chemistry major, minoring in African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Read more
Elect Her Trains Women to Run for Student Government
In the halls of power, women are seriously outnumbered. Men continue to dominate elected office at every level. This is even true in student government, despite the fact that women dramatically outnumber men on campus.
Elect Her is an exciting project that encourages women to run for office. As one of their strategies for involving more women in government, their "Elect Her - Campus Women Win" program encourages and trains women to run for student government. By getting women to run for office early in life, they hope to inspire those women to later pursue elected office at all levels of government.