What Can I Do To Help?
- Call your district Senator and Assemblyperson. See your local representatives
- Call the Senators and Assemblypeople on the budget and education committees. See all the Legislative Committees
- Email Regents on the UW Board of Regents. Contact information
- Hold a protest to bring attention to the need of lower tuition at your campus.
- Contact your school's administration (Chancellor, Vice Chancellors, Provost) to push them to take this as an issue.
- Email or call the Milwaukee Mayor and Gubernatoral Candidate, Tom Barrett’s, office to put the financial burden of students on his agenda. Contact Mayor Barrett
- Email and call Governor Doyle’s office with a request for his leadership on the issue of lower tuition.
- Spread literature and flyers all over campus to encourage other student's involvement.
- Host a lecture or an event with a Professor, Speaker, or a student panel to discuss issues of tuition in higher education.
- Set up a table at campus to reach out to other students about issue.
- Go to regents meetings and make a consistent and strong student presence at their meetings. Board of Regents meeting times
- Go to the State Lobby Day for Lower Tuition on April 15 on Wisconsin’s State Capitol in Madison.
- Organize buses and vans to the Lobby Day in Madison on April 15.
- Write editorials for you campus paper and local newspaper.
- Set up a "tent city" in the halls of your school, highlighting the fact that students are already broke and spending an increasing amount on tuition will lead to a “tent city”.
- Build cardboard mountains on campus labeled "student debt".
- Chalk your campus sidewalks with www.100aclass.org
- Talk to your student government representatives. Student gov contact information
- Start a $100 a Class student group dedicated to lowering tuition and find student groups to rally behind this cause.
- Set up a “Student Debt Dance Party”.
