CONWAY, Ark. (June
23, 2013) – Meredith Morrison, a junior from Greenfield, Mo., is taking part in
the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network’s annual Policy Expo this week at the
Pew Charitable Trusts Conference Center in Washington, D.C.
The Expo brings local, student-driven policy initiatives to a broader
stage, and injects fresh and innovative policy ideas into our national
political discourse. The program will discuss what the next generation of
policy leaders is working on; engage in problem-solving discussions with
student activists, policy experts, nonprofit leaders, and social entrepreneurs;
and train young activists in the tools they will need to jump-start local
policy change.
Morrison, a member of the Campus Network chapter at Hendrix, has been
working with the Roosevelt
Institute Campus Network all year to develop a policy idea from concept to
implementation.
She will present Supporting Rural Education by Relieving Student
Loans, which outlines a plan for Missouri to implement a student debt
forgiveness program for teachers who teach honors-level courses in rural
schools, in an attempt to both improve education outcomes in rural schools and
to lessen the financial load on teachers who get a master’s degree.
Roosevelt Institute Campus Network has over 10,000 members on 100
campuses, but only 10 ideas will be presented during the Policy Expo, and only
two during the opening reception.
Founded in
1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences
education. For the fifth consecutive year, Hendrix was named one of the
country’s “Up and Coming” liberal arts colleges by
U.S. News and World Report. Hendrix is featured in the 2012 edition
of the Princeton Review as one of the country’s best 377 colleges, the latest
edition of
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change
the Way You Think about Colleges,
Forbes
magazine's annual list of America's Top 650 Colleges, and the 2013 edition of the Fiske Guide
to Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist
Church since 1884. For
more information, visit
www.hendrix.edu.