ENGL 202 (Venegas)

Library Resources

• EBSCOhost: All Databases - Limit to scholarly articles, consider adding “policy” or “proposal” to your topic search terms - this will help you find articles that are about solutions. Sample searches:
  • low income students completion policy
  • first generation college students policy
• CQ Researcher (Overview reports to lawmakers) - focus on these sections:
  • Current Situation - what lawmakers and others are doing at the time of the report
  • The Next Step - a bibliography pointing to future trends
  • Contacts - names and websites of advocacy groups and stakeholders
    • Browse all Education reports by category
    • Sample reports: Systemic Racism (2020), Community Colleges (2015), College Costs (2019)
• US Newsstream (Newspapers) - Newspapers give you local or popular insight into policies; add “policy” or “proposal” to your topic search terms - this will help you find articles that are about solutions.

Grassroots & Community-based Efforts

• Follow social media hashtags related to movements and then identify individual activists to follow
• Look in sources like CQ Researcher (Contacts) or in news articles for names of individuals or organizations involved in activism or advocacy
• Use Google; here are some sample searches & results:
  • grassroots first generation college students site:org
  • community based activism first generation college students site:org