CAN-ER: Campus Activism for Educational Rights

To students, faculty and staff angry about high tuition, federal budget cuts, and "downsizing" of higher education at the state level:

Fortunately, there is a growing campus movement protesting these attacks on access. To link students and others involved, the Center for Campus Organizing has set up an e-mail discussion list called CAN-ER (Campus Activists' Network, Educational Rights).

With greater public attention paid to education issues, President Clinton and the Democratic leadership are recommending significant new federal spending for higher education. However, the bulk of Democratic proposals are new tax breaks that will benefit mostly middle-class students attending higher-priced institutions, and do nothing to increase access for those who have the least ability to pay.

On the other side, Republicans are starting to focus on high tuition, but have yet to propose long-term solutions. And a proposal to add $35 billion to Pell Grants, by Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN) and Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA), is gaining momentum.

Your participation in the national discussion on education financing issues is needed now more than ever!

To contact the list's facilitator, email can-erfacil@pencil.math.missouri.edu.

We invite you to subscribe to this list; you may unsubscribe at any time. We ask that to keep list volume down you be careful not to post things to the list that you wanted to send to an individual.

To subscribe via the web, please fill out this form:

Name:
E-mail Address:
School:
Campus Group(s):
Please state your interest in education rights:

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To subscribe manually, please follow these instructions:

1. TO SUBSCRIBE to the list, send e-mail to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with a subject of "canet" whose body just says:
   sub can-er Firstname Lastname

   TO SEND A MESSAGE to the list, e-mail it to: can-er@pencil.math.missouri.edu

   TO UNSUBSCRIBE, send e-mail to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with a subject of "canet" whose body ONLY says:

   unsub can-er

   If the volume of mail on this list becomes too large, you can always change your subscription to a "digest" (1 big message per day) by sending e-mail to: canet@pencil.math.missouri.edu with subject "canet" and body:

   set can-er mail digest

   To undo this use "ack" in place of "digest".
   To suppress mail for the summer, use "postpone" in place of "digest".

For a full list of Campus Activists' Network lists, send email to: canet-info@pencil.math.missouri.edu

If you have any other questions, please contact the facilitator.

US PIRG Higher Ed. Project
218 D St. SE, Washington, DC 20003
202-546-9707 -- Ivan Frishberg ivan@essential.org
http://www.pirg.org

US Student Association
1413 K St. NW, Washington, DC 20005
202-347-USSA -- Erica Adelsheimer ussaleg@essential.org
http://www.essential.org/ussa

NAGPS -- National Association of Graduate and Professional Students
Tony Rosati, Information Exchange Coord. rosati@gusun.acc.georgetown.edu
http://www.nagps.org/NAGPS/

call@pencil.math.missouri.edu to receive the "Call to Action" or
cwa@pencil.math.missouri.edu to receive a 30-page organizing packet

1997 Center for Campus Organizing, Box 748, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA 617-354-9363 cco@igc.apc.org