• We regularly meet with student leaders, student trustees, campus advocacy networks, and campus media representatives.

• We hired two camps coordinators with diverse political and advocacy backgrounds at the University of Virginia (UVA) and Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
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• We contributed to student op-eds and news articles in campus publications to inform students of upcoming decisions that impact college affordability.

• In 2019, we ran digital advocacy campaigns at targeted campuses in Virginia, generating emails to institutional decision-makers and building grassroots support for our “fund and freeze” initiative.

• In response to a proposed tuition and fee increase at VCU in 2018, we launched a digital advocacy campaign that resulted in over 300 petition signatures and 1,700 emails to institutional leaders.

• We partnered with a diverse group of VCU student organizations to release a statement expressing students’ “unwavering opposition” to the proposed tuition increase.

• Following our 2018 advocacy campaign, the VCU Board of Visitors allowed students to provide comments during its 2019 Budget Workshop.

• During Virginia’s 2019 legislative session, we hosted a lobby day event with students across multiple public institutions and recruited them to testify during legislative committee and subcommittee meetings.