Campus Progress Chapters

Along with our student representatives, Campus Progress chapters organize speaking events, engage in national issue campaigns, hold regular meetings to discuss issues and strategy, and create lasting connections on and between campuses. Our chapter program also helps foster individual and team leadership, by allowing students the freedom to shape their respective chapters to address conditions on their own campuses.

Campus Progress chapters are expected to hold regular meetings, elect student leadership for the group, and plan events and campaigns every semester. For tips and suggestions, check our chapter guidelines, event planning guide, and outreach guide.

The primary functions of chapters are to:

1. Serve as a space for progressive students on campus to work on common projects and develop an overall progressive strategy
2. Create meaningful discourse by hosting speaking events, film screenings, and debates on campus
3. Provide a forum for progressive students to hone their organizing and activism skills by working on local issues and Campus Progress / Center for American Progress national issue campaigns

Advantages and perks of being a chapter:

• Support from staff for events, funding, and resources
• Regular campus visits from Campus Progress staff

Additionally, chapters are encouraged to foster relationships between community groups and campus progressives and increase awareness of Campus Progress’s web publication, publication grants, and other resources.

Click here for the list of 2007-2008 Campus Progress chapters.