PIRG students are suiting up for the election in a variety of New Voters Project t-shirts. Check them out!
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Check out this fun new piece of cat-themed campaign artwork from the NJPIRG students at Rutgers University.
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From the UConn Daily Campus:
ConnPIRG is planning to have the largest and most aggressive voter registration drive the University of Connecticut has seen, as announced in their first meeting.
ConnPIRG is a nonpartisan, nonprofit statewide organization that works to inform and put issues in front of legislators in Hartford.
One of their goals for the next three months is to register 4,000 students and mobilize 12,000 to the polls to vote on Election Day.
Read the full story at http://dailycampus.com/stories/2016/9/15/connpirg-plans-for-largest-and-most-aggressive-voter-registration-drive-uconn-has-ever-seen.
A statement from Student PIRGs Higher Education Advocate, Ethan Senack, following the Labor-HHS Appropriations Bill markup and passage in the Senate Appropriations Committee earlier today.
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A new report investigating the real impact of high textbook prices on today’s college students.
Earlier today, the Student PIRGs released a new report investigating the real impact of high textbook prices on today’s students
For Immediate Release [Washington, DC] — Today the U.S Department of Education significantly lowered costs for college students by banning some of the worst fees from bank accounts on campus. The agency’s new rule will impact over 9 million college… Read more
For Immediate Release [WASHINGTON, DC] – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL), Al Franken (D-MN) and Angus King (I-ME) today introduced legislation designed to help students manage costs by making high quality textbooks easily accessible to students, professors and the public… Read more
The U.S. Department of Education announced today the hiring of the first ever open education adviser to lead a national effort to expand schools’ access to high-quality, openly-licensed learning resources.
