Kennesaw Kicks Up Some Campus Press
It’s been a big week for Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Georgia. They’re making a killing on the leaderboard with almost 60,000 new points, and a ton more pending confirmation.
What’s their secret? A strong and committed Campus Leader, Audrey Ruark, and an awesomely supportive campus administration.
And a little help from campus press, worth 2,000 points per article.
As KSU’s ONE Campus Challenge leader, Ruark initiated a series of campus projects that have catapulted her to the leadership ranks, earning her the privilege of attending ONE’s Power Summit in Washington, D.C. last February and a special training in August to become a ONE campus outreach ambassador — one of the youngest among 14 nationwide.
In the last year, Ruark has succeeded in having KSU President Daniel Papp declare KSU a ONE campus; spoken to 10 classes about global poverty and the ONE campaign; set up tables at campus events and passed out literature;; organized the sale of fair-trade and survivor-made goods, raising $1,300 for the Not for Sale Campaign against human trafficking; and coordinated with local ONE representatives to have Atlanta designated a “City of ONE.”
As if that weren’t enough to keep Audrey and her team busy, they also got a write-up in the Kennesaw State University Sentinel for their October 1 event in partnership with TOMS Shoes. Kennesaw raised $826 for the charity, which provides shoes to children in need.
“Our goal was to not only raise money for TOMS Shoes, but to make the walkers understand why shoes are so important,” Audrey explains in the article.
Keep it up, Kennesaw!
October 29th, 2009 at 4:46 pm
Make that more than 75,000 points for Kennesaw this week. Wow!