Mission

The mission of the student networking committee is to provide a forum and support group for student activists. The student networking committee seeks to foster community and campus activism, develop networks of student activists between inner/outer college campuses of the New York City area and the local Puerto Rican grassroots communities, and coordinate and support events of members of this network.

Goals

* Promote and support student activism and leadership

* Develop and foster networks between activists and student leaders

* Develop and foster networks between the various college campuses

* Maintain links between local communities and college activists organizations through integration of the network and NCPRR-NYC

* Use of Boricua student power as a communication medium between the local communities and college activists

* To maintain a forum that fosters and trains student leaders in various strategies of community and campus organizing To foster intergenerational closure/networks between younger and older activism through forums, trainings, and community activities such as workshops and a grassroots speaker bureau

Programs

* Further development of Boricua student power t a listserv) as a communication tool to foster the goals of NCPRR-NYC and the student networking committee

* "Apprenticeships in training"-to integrate students into NCPRR-NYC campaigns such as the justice, environmental, political prisoners, Puerto Rico, Latinos for Positive Images and technology committee as informal training or apprenticeships of community organizing

* Collaborative workshops between campus leaders and community leaders with different committees around different issues such as police brutality/racism in local communities and on college campuses

* "Student Think Tank"-Development of forum for exchanging of ideas, arena for training and analysis of strategies, And promotion of informal and formal networks of various student leaders

How To Be A Better Leader Tools gained from workshop on better leadership
Boricua Student Power-A student listserv run by NCPRR

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