TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 7 PM, PSY 109
Chris Myers Asch, Co-founder of the U.S. Public Service Academy, will speak to Indiana University students and interested community members at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, October 30th, in the Psychology Building, E. 10th Street, Room 109 The talk is being sponsored at IU by the program in Leadership, Ethics, and Social Action in the Dept of Political Science and by the American Humanics student organization.
We hope you will attend and share some refreshments (pizza will be served at 6:45).
Asch and Shawn Raymond (fellow Teach For America alumnus) launched the initiative to build the U.S. Public Service Academy in response to the breakdown of public institutions following Hurricane Katrina. Public Service Academy would offer a federally-subsidized four-year college education to more than 5,000 students in return for five years of civilian service in education, health care, emergency management, or other public sector fields at the local, state, and national levels.
The movement to build the Academy has reached Congress with the sponsorship of Democratic and Republican legislators. It also has earned the endorsement of numerous organizations, including City Year, the National Peace Corps Association, and the U.S. Student Association, as well as prominent individuals such as Madeleine Albright, Lee Hamilton, and three former superintendents of West Point. In its September 10 cover story on national service, Time magazine listed the Public Service Academy as one of the top ten ideas the next president should embrace to reinvigorate civic life.
For more information contact:
Chris Myers Asch, asch@uspublicserviceacademy.org
662-207-4744, http://www.uspublicserviceacademy.org
At IU: Joelene Bergonzi, lesa@indiana.edu
