Listening to today’s students paid civicnation
Students are rapidly changing, but the higher ed system has yet to catch up—resulting in students struggling to thrive in a system that wasn’t designed for them. Consider the following:
You’re a student of color on a predominantly white campus and a racist graffiti pops up around campus. Your campus doesn’t respond. You’re a low-income student and while your campus provides a stipend to attend paid events, you have to stand in a different entrance line than all of the other students.If you’re a policymaker or leader in higher education, you might have thoughts about how students feel about these scenarios and the best way to respond. But if you don’t include your students in the solution—if you don’t actively solicit their options and make space for their voices—you will never really know.
This is why we need to listen to students, especially those who have been historically marginalized, or systematically excluded from the design and implementation of higher education, policies and practices. We need to put students at the center of the conversation., an organization dedicated to diversifying our nation’s leadership pipeline, launched the LEDA Policy Project in 2017 and why we’re bringing students to the 2020 SXSW EDU Conference.
Amber Briggs, Director of the LEDA Policy Project, with the 2019-2020 LEDA Policy Corps in Washington, DC.
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