The one time of the year I'm *not* in DC is the
time you guys are holding the conference.
Have no fear, though. You guys can't elude me
forever! ;)
Any Campus Progress events that go on in DC over
the course of the school year, I'm there.
As for the Nation's commentary... having not been
there, I can't judge their individual statements,
but in general it seems like the publication has
gone from 'progressive' to downright reactionary
lately. I let my subscription lapse, and I ain't
missing it.
Well, I'll always miss passing up something
written by Christopher Hitchens. But that goes
without saying.
Following the 1st Campus Progress National Student Conference and a convention in my home state, I'm just starting to recover. DC is something else. And this Conference is something else. I met so many people who have done and are doing work all across this country that is great. And I met even more with plans in the works to do even better work.
I finally met, in person, friends like Asheesh and Ezra. I made new friends. I missed some people that I would like to have met (with 600 people, it would be near-impossible to catch them all). What can you do?
Still, I'm incredibly impressed by how the whole event came off. If you only watch one video of the conference, make sure you check out the opening panel on the battle of ideas. The panelists did a great job. If you watch another, watch the one on economic policy. I'm looking forward to downloading the videos of the panels I couldn't be at.
At this point, though, now that we've had an opportunity to look back, what would you want done differently? The greatest thing about blogs is that they allow for the dialogue, so, please, jump in and tell the folks at the Center what you would want to see done differently next year.
Talking to others, I can say that one of the frequent complaints was that there wasn't enough...time. The day we had was packed, fun, emotional, and exhausting. But we've got hundreds and thousands of young leaders across this country seeking skills and education to go out and do good work. One day was not enough.
One of my other concerns was that the skill trainings were all related to communications. All four were great and loaded with excellent panelists, but where were the basics of campus organizing, the Student Government Elections 101, or the live version of Nico Pitney's guide to quick, dirty, and great research.
These are some of my thoughts and thoughts I heard from others I met with.
What are yours?
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!
Have no fear, though. You guys can't elude me forever! ;)
Any Campus Progress events that go on in DC over the course of the school year, I'm there.
As for the Nation's commentary... having not been there, I can't judge their individual statements, but in general it seems like the publication has gone from 'progressive' to downright reactionary lately. I let my subscription lapse, and I ain't missing it.
Well, I'll always miss passing up something written by Christopher Hitchens. But that goes without saying.