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RUN A CAMPAIGN >> Introduction
Get organized and get help!
Start a list
of info on alumni, professors, student organizations and
individuals that can help you work with the administration
to create an SRI policy. Many have found that it is most
effective to work WITH the administration to convince
the Board of Trustees about the importance of SRI issues.
Publishing
letters to the editor or guest columns in school papers
will alert the wider university community to your interest
and may pique theirs. A well-written letter in the alumni
magazine, while as yet unprecedented, may be a fine tactic
for both alerting the administration to the fact that
your campaign means business and for gathering support from
alumni.
If you don't have experience mobilizing your campus
around
social/political/financial issues (and if you do you're
too busy to be reading this) you should get in touch with
successful
campus activists who can share tactics for working with
your school's system. Contact with student organizations
who are
organized around issues that are affected by SRI (environment,
sweatshops, LGBT, peace) will help you get in touch with
people that are motivated around these particular issues
who can later work together to further their causes through
SRI. You may also want to contact individuals who understand
finance and economics. In our experience, most of these
people are not activists so you might need to expand your
circles.
A word of advice: just get started. Changing school
policy may seem daunting, but you can bet that many people
will
be interested in working with you on this exciting
venture! For a sampling of schools with active SRI infrastructure,
check out the Schools section. To get inspired by reading
the stories of just a few of the students just like
you
who helped run effective SRI campaigns, visit Success
Stories.
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