Bodnar, Waters, and Brian each helped start student-veteran groups on their campuses that provide benefits counseling, mentoring, tutoring, and occasional social functions.
Students have ample opportunity to take on leadership roles whether it be starting a new student group, leading Shabbat services, or hosting their own Passover Seder.
From starting the first student group at the University of Pennsylvania a decade ago to watching us register our 350th chapter this year, I am confident that our work is both necessary and effective, and I am continually inspired by the passion and creativity of the college students who make up this powerful advocacy network.
This strategy has worked for Mr. Hatcher, 30, a graduate student who started a secular student group at the historically black Howard University.
If you want to start a graduate student group, please review the application material required by SLI at their page (https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/sli/get-involved/student-organizations/join-start-organization/).
Building on these sessions, a dedicated group of participants started a vibrant student group called the Ludic Union for the Investigation of Gaming Interfaces (LUIGI) that encourages the study, design, and development of videogames and transmedia games at the university.
Concerned that black religious skeptics were alienated on campus, he started a humanist student group this year.
He also started the first autism-focused student group at Columbia, Spectrum Collective.
Mohamad Bydon, 22, a Dartmouth graduate who started the first Arab-American student group at Dartmouth last year, welcomed the idea of the new campus network.
A student group recently started stress-reducing yoga sessions after class, and other teens have been trained as mental health first responders.
This year, the student group wanted to start a new initiative to bring the greater community together.
