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Common Experience 2020

"Use Your Voice to Empower the Future"

The 2020-2021 Common Experience theme is "Using Your Voice to Empower the Future" which is supported by  Vote for US: How to Take Back Our Elections and Change the Future of Voting by Joshua A. Douglas.  The purpose of this text is to light a spark in you to want to become engaged within your community to make a change. Douglas, with his examples, shows that anyone can create change with even small everyday activities. What matters is that you speak up and fight for what you believe in. Imagine it being a few years from now, someone is discussing what is going on in the world today, and they ask you, what did you do during this time? What do you hope to tell them? Not everyone can vote, however, the one thing we can all do is use our voice! Join us on this journey of using our voices to create change.   

Fall 2020 Events, Videos, and Blogs
Fall 2020 Events, Videos, and Blogs
Summer 2020 Poster Campaign Challenge
August 27 and September 2 Cast your Vote and Capture your Voice: Vote for Us
September 8 to September 25 Racing to the Vote
September 22 Lets Taco About Voting
October 27 and 28   Voting Q&A
November 3 Presidential Election Watch Party
Faculty Speaker Series: Dr. Dolph Briscoe IV

Faculty Speaker Series: Dr. Andrew Sanders

Intergroup Dialogue: Voting
Spring 2021 Events, Videos, and Blogs
Spring 2021 Events, Videos, and Blogs
January 20 United States Presidential Inauguration
January 28  Hot Food and Hot Topics 1: Why should I care about social issues?
February 2 Dear 2021
February 9  Hot Food and Hot Topics 2: Colorism vs. Racism
March 2021 Arts and Activism
March 9  Hot Food and Hot Topics 3: Immigration
March 25 Paint Your Future
April 6 Hot Food and Hot Topics 4: Facing the -ism's
April 15 All Around the USA

For more information on our events, please visit JagSync or contact the Office of First-Year Experience at (210) 784-1435.

Check out these resources to learn about different ways to become civically engaged!