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10/2/18 Engaging Higher Education in Climate Advocacy About Clara CLARA FANG CCL Higher Education Outreach Coordinator 1 10/2/18 Agenda 1 4 Why Young People? What Can I Do To Help? 2 5 How Can Students Jump In? Who Are Youth Leaders? 3

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Engaging Higher Education in Climate Advocacy

CLARA FANG

CCL Higher Education Outreach Coordinator

About Clara

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Agenda

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What Can I Do To Help?

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Why Young People? Who Are Youth Leaders? Higher Education Leaders Q&A Discussion How Can Students Jump In?

Why Young People?

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Young People’s Stories Resonate

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Elected Offjcials Pay Attention To Young People

Traverse City High School students convinced Republican Representative Jack Bergman to join the Climate Solutions Caucus, October 2017.

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Young People Will Be Disproportionately Afgected

“The Price Tag of Being Young: Climate Change and Millennial’s Economic Future.” Demos and Next Gen. August 2016.

Lifetime Lost Wealth From Climate Change

Workers who are 21 Years Old as of 2015 Workers who are born in 2015

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Millennials Are Concerned About Climate Change

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75% of Millennials: Stop or Slow Climate Change And Are Actively Working On Addressing It

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Who Are Some Of These Young Leaders?

Our Children’s Trust

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Our Climate #PutAPriceOnIt Coalition

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10/2/18 10 Lydia Avila, Executive Director The Power Shifu Network mobilizes the collective power of young people to mitigate climate change and create a just, clean energy future and resilient, thriving communities for all.

Power Shift Network Power Shift Network

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Sunrise Movement Students for Carbon Dividends

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This Is Zero Hour

Youth March -July 21st Lobby Day - July 19th Washington DC

Higher Education Community Leaders Are Science, Policy, and Economic Experts

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10/2/18 13 “If five or six college presidents came to me and said, ‘Senator Alexander, may we have a 30 minute appointment with you while you’re home next month?’, I’ll do it in a minute. So will every other Senator. You (college presidents) have the credibility to go to a member of Congress and say, ‘Will you please vote for this? Will you cosponsor the legislation? Will you support it? Will you encourage the president [of the United States] to sign it?’ Odds are, if you do that they will. It’s about that simple.

  • Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

Politicians Respect Higher Education Leaders

Higher Education Carbon Pricing Endorsement Initiative

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Presidents Who Have Endorsed Carbon Pricing

  • Sonya Stephens, Acting President, Mount Holyoke College
  • Lewis E. Thayne, President, Lebanon Valley College
  • Jo Ann Rooney, President, Loyola University Chicago
  • Brian Rosenberg, President, Macalester College
  • John I. Williams, Jr., President, Muhlenberg College
  • Melvin Oliver, President, Pitzer College
  • David Oxtoby, President, Pomona College
  • Wim Wiewel, President, Portland State University
  • Thomas J. Schwarz, President, Purchase College, SUNY
  • Kathleen McCartney, President, Smith College
  • Valerie Smith, President, Swarthmore College
  • Dr. Melik Peter Khoury, President, Unity College
  • Nicholas B. Dirks, Chancellor, University of California Berkeley
  • Andrew J. Leavitt, President, University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
  • Jon Chenette, Interim President, Vassar College
  • Paula A. Johnson, President, Wellesley College
  • Michael S. Roth, President, Wesleyan University
  • Leon Botstein, President, Bard College
  • Robert Goldberg, Interim President, Barnard College
  • Mariko Silver, President, Bennington College
  • Dianne Harrison, President, California State University Northridge
  • Gayle E. Hutchinson, President, California State University Chico
  • Robert S. Nelsen, President, California State University Sacramento
  • Greg P. Smith, President, Central Community College Nebraska
  • David Finegold, President, Chatham University
  • Brian W. Casey, President, Colgate University
  • Katherine Bergeron, President, Connecticut College
  • Neil Weissman, Interim President, Dickinson College
  • Lee Pelton, President, Emerson College
  • Marco Valera, Fordham University
  • Daniel R. Porterfield, Ph. D, President, Franklin and Marshall College
  • Robert Allen, President, Green Mountain College
  • Kim Benston, President, Haverford College

Southwestern University Faculty Resolution

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The Tyndall Petition

What Can I Do To Help?

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Find An Ally At Your University

  • Sustainability Director
  • Sustainability committee
  • Environmental students
  • Faculty

Work With Your Alumni Association

  • Write op-eds
  • Start a petition
  • Raise funds
  • Make presentations
  • Network
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Campus Outreach

Table at campus events Give presentations Organize and host film screenings

Fundraise

$5,000 would support

  • 10 paid fellowships across our regions

$1,000 would support

  • 5 students to attend the national

conference

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Become A Higher Ed Ally!

Aurora Winslade Swarthmore College Neil Leary Dickinson College

  • Prof. Dan Dietrich

U-Wisc. Stevens Point

Monthly call for Higher Ed Allies with Clara Fang. Join the team through CCL Community Higher Education Action Team Sustainability Director Swarthmore College, PA

  • Helped us launch the Higher Ed

Carbon Pricing Endorsements Initiative

  • Got her president to sign-on
  • Organized a day long workshop on

internal carbon pricing for colleges and universities

Aurora Winslade

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  • Group leader of the local chapter.
  • Hosts chapter meetings on campus.
  • Worked with students to start a student

chapter.

  • Fundraised to help students attend the

national conference.

  • Supported efforts to win endorsement

from student government and university chancellor.

  • Dr. Dan Dietrich

Sustainability Director Dickinson College, PA

  • Got all his students in the Environmental

Studies course involved in #PutAPriceOnIt coalition.

  • His students got the endorsement of the

town council of Carlisle.

  • Helped launch the Higher Education Carbon

Pricing Endorsements Initiative.

  • Got his president to sign-on.
  • Helped to organize Safe Climate PA.

Neil Leary

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What Opportunities Are There for Students?

Attend CCL’s Conferences

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Campus Outreach

Newspaper Radio Television Student Media Social

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Meet with Members of Congress University Endorsements

Student groups and organizations Sustainability department/ director University President

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Student Testimonials Project

Young people are disproportionately affected by climate change, and we need their voices in government in supporting a price a carbon. Citizens' Climate Lobby is collecting photos and quotes from students showing why young adults from around the country support a price on carbon. http:// www.citizensclimatehighered.org/ testimonials

Campus Leaders & Regional Fellows

  • Start a campus campaign
  • Work 7 hours a week on their

campaign

  • Bi-weekly coaching calls
  • Monthly conference calls
  • Promote regional conference
  • Apply at:

http://www.citizensclimate highered.org/campus-leaders

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Do an Internship

  • Involve young people in climate advocacy.
  • Support for local chapters.
  • Gain valuable skills.
  • Gain academic credit.
  • Bridge the gap between generations.
  • Help a young person get experience in their

chosen career. http://www.citizensclimatehighered.org/ chapter-interns Join a local chapter and get involved in advocacy efforts!

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Volunteer

Get professional experience while helping to expand our membership and impact!

Intern

Become a group leader yourself and start a CCL campus chapter!

Lead

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Opportunities for Students

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http://www.citizensclimatehighered.org and click “Join”

Join the Higher Education Action Team COFFEE BREAK

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Time For Questions Click the Microphone Icon Or *6 If On The Phone

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Young People Matter, Will Be Heavily Impacted, And Are Deeply Concerned They Are Already Leading The Charge in Shaping Our Dialogue There Are Many Ways To Get Them Involved! Let’s Connect & Diversify!

A Quick Review For Tonight’s Takeaways

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“The temptation to silence young people has always

  • existed. It is up to you not to keep quiet. Even if others

keep quiet, if we older people and leaders some corrupt, keep quiet, if the whole world keeps quiet and loses its joy, I ask you, ‘will you cry out?’” - Pope Francis Catholic Church’s World Youth Day Address 2018

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Thank You!