Summary
The US onAir Network will be working with volunteers from Alabama universities, colleges, and nonprofit organizations to oversee the curation and moderation of posts, aircasts (online discussions), and in person events for the Arizona onAir Hub … related to federal, state, and local elections and government.
Our first outreach will be to Arizona State University partly because of its proximity to the state capital. We have identified many of ASU’s civic engagement, academic, internship and research programs related to making democracy and civic responsibility a focus of higher learning on their campus … for students, faculty, staff, and local community. This post, over time, will have similar information on other collaborating organizations in the state.
Contact ben.murphy@onair.cc for more information on how to involve your organization.
About
The Arizona State University’s onAir chapter will initially focus on training interested undergrad and graduate students on how to curate Arizona onAir content especially submitting Top News articles, events, videos, and information and moderating forums in each post they curate.
Student curators will also work with state senate and house committee chairs to produce aircasts on issues being discussed and bills being proposed in their committees.
During election season, students with other other organizations like the League of Women Voters, will coordinate and produce aircasted debates with candidates.
The Arizona State University onAir chapter will also help to establish other onAir chapters at public and private universities and colleges throughout the state.
Arizona State University
Source: ASU Website
Recognized by U.S. News & World Report as the country’s most innovative school, Arizona State University is where students and faculty work with NASA to develop, advance and lead innovations in space exploration.
This is where Nobel laureates and Pulitzer Prize winners teach master learners. This is where nationally ranked and internationally ranked programs prepare next-generation innovators to thrive while advancing pioneering research, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship and economic development.
ASU’s nationally ranked programs inspire the top-qualified graduates and have positioned the university as a “top-tier” recruiting and hiring institution by more than 50 of the country’s top corporations, according to professional recruiters and rankings services around the world.
Civic Engagement Programs
Source: Civic Engagement Webpage
The advisory board immediately assisted with crafting the founding mission statement, recruiting a director, and providing insight on the school’s curriculum. Board member and William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government at Harvard, Harvey Mansfield, who is one of the nation’s premier scholars of political philosophy, statesmanship, and American constitutionalism, wrote the following:
“A new school in Arizona State University should say why it exists and what it will do. Universities in America today live in an atmosphere of a certain conformity of opinion and suffer from an obvious lack of debate. Often there seems to be more open and vigorous debate in American society and politics than where one should expect it, in the American university. Yet the solution is not to bring in more politics and greater contention from outside, thus disturbing the peace necessary in a university for study and scholarly inquiry.
This school seeks to introduce a new level of debate over the large questions of life that always arise. These are questions of value: What is the best form of government? The most efficient and just economy? The good life for an individual? And also basic questions of fact and concept: Is science the only kind of knowledge? Does history have a direction and purpose? Is moral choice a fact or delusion?
These questions do not have easy answers, and indeed the questions have always been clearer than the answers. As a learning community of faculty and students, this school will approach them in two ways. One way is to look beyond the time and borders of our present society to the great thinkers who have contended for the high status of teachers of humanity. Some, like Homer, Dante and Shakespeare, are known as literature; others, like Plato, Marx and Nietzsche, known as philosophy. Both poets and philosophers make us aware that our way of life is not the only way, and they combine to teach us how our way is distinctive and how we ought to judge it.
The other way of studying the fundamental questions is to look within ourselves to the American leaders, both intellectual and political, who have inspired us. Here we turn from the human task of thinking for oneself to the civic vocation of contributing to our common life. As citizens our students face the responsibilities of the nation and the world that will be theirs when their time to lead arrives. We need to know what principles and institutions have made us Americans and whether they need to be reformed or reasserted.
Since America was founded on certain ideas rather than a single race or nation, we need to see what those founding ideas were. We need to see how they have guided our people to live, and how we have changed, for better and worse. Ours is the most thorough and enduring democratic society in history, and yet we debate its faults. We need to see how the ideas of the Founding Fathers were both invoked and reformed through the succession of leaders after them: by Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson, Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt, Martin Luther King and Ronald Reagan – and let’s not forget Mercy Warren, Abigail Adams, Edith Wharton and Betty Friedan. Nor can we fail to mention the two greatest books on America – The Federalist and Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.
In sum, our new school looks outward to humanity and inward to America. Its ambition is to teach critical minds and to puncture complacency – and it tries to be both proud of genuine greatness and humble about human imperfection.”
Political Science Programs
Source: Department website
Study domestic and foreign politics and global issues at one of the top schools in the nation.
The School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU emphasizes research that links theory with real world issues and action through policy. The School generates and diffuses knowledge that contributes to society’s understanding of politics and governance at local, national and global levels. Students will study topics ranging from campaigns and elections to violence, conflict and human rights. As a Political Science or Global Studies major, you will be prepared to develop innovative approaches to major emerging challenges.
Student Government
Source: Student Government Webpage
The Associated Students of ASU, ASU’s Official Student Government, exists to serve ASU’s students across all campuses and undergraduate and graduate programs!
We provide a number of student-run services and advocate for student initiatives including student wellness, campus safety, community outreach, civic engagement and ASU pride and traditions. ASASU also facilitates the distribution of funding from the student activity fee to clubs and organizations across ASU. ASASU voices students’ concerns and interests at the University, local, state and national levels and provides students with experience and training through active political participation.
ASU Student Governments
ASASU is made up of the five student governments of Arizona State University: the Undergraduate Student Governments at the Downtown Phoenix, Polytechnic, Tempe and West campuses, and the Graduate and Professional Student Association.
ASU students have the power to create dramatic, systematic change in our communities through who we elect to represent us. Make your voice heard.
Learn more and vote today!
Internships
Source: Webpage
Having experience in your chosen field of interest is incredibly important. Not only to solidify your career aspirations but to build your experience on your resume. Whether through a for-credit or non-credit internship, on-campus employment, part-time job or volunteer work – taking advantage of opportunities to build your resume while you are attending school will be imperative to your success upon graduation.
Research
Source: Webpage
Research and innovation at ASU
The ASU Knowledge Enterprise advances research, innovation, strategic partnerships, entrepreneurship, economic development and international development.
