Advocacy Day

advocacyday Join with hundreds of students from across Minnesota's 30 community and technical colleges to advocate for making college affordable, fight for racial justice and ensure that students basic needs are being met.

At Advocacy Day you will learn about the issues that we are fighting for, and how students can have an impact at the capitol. We will setup a meeting with your elected officials so that you can share your story on legislators can better support students at the capitol.

This year students went out to vote in record numbers and now is our time to make sure legislators keep their promises to invest in our community colleges.

Schedule

Welcome

We will kickoff the largest student advocacy conference in Minnesota

Legislative Presentation

Learn about how what happens at the capitol impacts the tuition that you pay and ways that students can do to effectively have your voice heard. We will discuss why we need to make college affordable, fight for funding to make sure that students basic needs are being met, and address racial inequities in college.

Legislative Training Game

Campus teams will prepare for their mock meetings by fine tuning their person stories and developing a plan for their meetings with elected officials.

Keynote – Senator David J. Tomassoni

Sen. Tomassoni is chair of the Senate Higher Education Finance and Policy and represents the 6th Senate district, which includes Itasca and Saint Louis counties in Northern Minnesota.

Keynote – Representative Connie Bernardy

Rep. Bernardy is chair of the House Higher Education Finance and Policy and represents house district 41A, which includes the cities of New Brighton and Columbia Heights in the Northern Metro area.

Showing of HUNGRY TO LEARN

HUNGRY TO LEARN introduces the faces behind an American crisis — college students so strapped to pay tuition that they don’t have enough money to eat or a place to live.