Look at 20 years of Campus Compact from a "20 something" student perspective, (A)

At the turn of the century, Campus Compact launched the Raise Your Voice Campaign to educate students on how to become involved and to publicize what involved students were already doing. Entering college I knew I wanted to continue all the little things that I loved to do in the community as a kid. But when I became familiar with Campus Compact through my college volunteering, I realized how connected government policies were with my everyday life and how the everyday things I was engaged in locally, termed civic involvement, influenced state and federal government policies. Now in the 20th year of Campus Compact and in my first year of graduate school, I would like to provide a variety of research and anecdotes to support why I think Campus Compact should encourage campus administrators, staff, faculty, students, and community members to foster the little civic tasks throughout their lives. As Grace Haines writes in her poem The Little Things, "The unobtrusive friendly things, the let me help you things, that make our pathway light." It's these little civic tasks that make the difficult and large civic duties more influential and easier to manage. [author]