The White House’s Campus Champions of Change Challenge

By Jen Domagal-Goldman, National Manager, American Democracy Project

The White House Office of Public Engagement and mtvU are sponsoring the first ever Campus “Champions of Change” (CCC) Challenge, and I want to encourage each of our American Democracy Project (ADP) campuses to submit an application!

This new program is intended to highlight stories and examples of how college students are representing President Obama’s vision for “out-innovating, out-educating, and out-building the rest of the world through projects and initiatives that move their communities forward.” Examples might include campus sustainability programs, campus-community partnerships, voter registration drives, etc.

The CCC Challenge “invites college and university students from across the country to demonstrate how their student led project is improving their campus community and helping America win the future.” Five finalists will be named and honored at the White House. The finalists will also work with mtvU and MTV Act to create short video features about their projects that will be featured on MTV.com. The winning team will host an episode of mtvU’s program, “The Dean’s List.”

The process:

• Complete the online application detailing your student-led program at www.WhiteHouse.gov/CampusChallenge.
• The White House will select 15 finalists based on input from a panel of judges.
• The public will then have an opportunity to weigh in and vote on the top five projects they think best embody the President’s goal to win the future.
• Submissions are due by Friday, December 9, 2011.

To find out more about the CCC Challenge, follow this link.