As soon as details about budget cuts affecting education in the state (K-12 funding to be cut by $ 900 million, state university funding by $243 million) became known, the voices calling for such short-sighted actions have begun growing.
A few students put together a Facebook group, and an information-rich web site at SpeakUpNow.org
It includes a short video on Vimeo – watch this, links to members of the state legislature, and other ways to get more voices be heard.
I write about this not just to track how social media is being used to bring people together for a common cause. I have a personal stake in this. I work at Arizona State University, one of the three universities that will be forced to take drastic steps (massive layoffs and astronomical tuition increases) if these cuts go through.
Personal stake #2: My son is a freshman at Northern Arizona University and I would not want to see Arizona dumbing down its education even further.
This is serious stuff folks.
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See how they have responded:
- University of Arizona – State needs to protect universities if aspiring to escape mediocrity
- Northern Arizona University – cuts “will delay economic recovery …for years to come“
- Arizona State University – How the cuts will hurt families and impact the state GDP
As the stage is set for this moment in American history, there’s much work being done to tap into the passion of the country via social media –to make it a ‘for the people, by the people’ event.
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