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Yesterday we released a new report, Transportation and the New Generation: Why Young People are Driving Less and What it Means for Transportation Policy, that shows that young people in particular are decreasing the amount they drive and increasing their use of transportation alternatives.
Today kicked off two major initiatives for open education: the first annual Open Education Week and the Why Open Education Matters video competition.
ConnPIRG and USG hosted a roundtable with Congressman Joe Courtney to discuss student debt and college affordability. ConnPIRG also delivered a thank you Valentine Card to the Congressman for authoring a bill to keep federal Stafford Loan interest rates from doubling in July.
In the annual State of the Union Address, President Obama proposed measures to bring relief to almost 8 million students who will see their student loan interest rates double on new loans starting July 1st, 2012.
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I haven’t been this excited in a long time! After days of practicing for (and tweeting about) my meeting with President Herbst, it finally happened.
Last night, the Undergraduate Student Government Senate passed legislation urging professors to adopt open source textbooks for their classroom.
We were in the Northwest Dining Hall today raising money for famine relief in Somalia through a text-to-give program that instantly sends $10 to Oxfam's relief program. We raised $800 which will provide instant relief to families in need in the middle of this crisis.
Over the past two weeks, you have probably seen ConnPIRG students in the union, in your dorms, dining halls, and on your way to class asking for your signature on a petition to make Uconn zero waste. 40 or 50 of my friends and I have been busy collecting over 3,500 petition signatures from Uconn students for this important initiative!
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