To ASACC board members and Community College Students

First, I want to tell everyone thanks for visiting our blog. We hope to inform you in a balanced manner of the issues that students across the country are facing. It is our hope that after reading this blog you will act. We want you to be active in your own communities, to speak up to your local, state, and national representatives about the needs of students in your area and also that of students everywhere.

Second, I want everyone to realize what kind of an effect that students can have in our nation. Students represent a confident majority. Where interest groups are concerned, there is no doubt our numbers are vast, and have the potential to be highly influential. The NRA is considered as one of the most powerful lobbies in our nation. Yet in proportion, its numbers are extremely overshadowed by the vast student population across our country. Imagine, if you will, that we as a demographic decided to join together and rally behind one cause. We could sweep a primary. We could swing an election. We have enourmous potential.

Our difficulty lies mainly in two areas. First, mobility. Our demographic is a unique group. Our dynamics vary from ages between 18 yrs to mid 40's. We consist of all races, Varied ethnicity, and span the social class system by income alone. In the past, to mobilize such a group was near to impossible, but now with advances in the internet we can communicate more clearly with one another than was previously available. Our message can travel distances that are unheard of with a single click.

Our second difficulty lies in the message. Obviously, our opinions are across the board. It would be near impossible for each of us to come to a consensus on any given issue. The one issue we all have in common, education, would produce countless opinions. Whether we are left or right though, at the end of the class period, we are all students. Our purpose with this blog is not to pit ourselves against one another but rather to find the common uniting ground. Opinions do and will contiously differ. We can still discuss the issues amongst ourselves and with our legislators. which is what ASACC does.

ASACC is the American Student Association of Community Colleges. We are the students with fresh dreams. We are the students that work AND go to school AND perhaps even have families to support. We are tradesmen and tradeswomen. We are the workforce. We are consumers and producers. We are the future. Lets put our common interests together and see if we can do some good for hard working students everywhere. Lets put our issues on the top of the pile, and send a message to our representatives that we are in it for the long haul, and we need their support.

Please vist the blog again and again. We will post relevant news and sources to empower and inform students across the country on the current issues in Higher Education. We look forward to hearing from you.
Matt