Addressing Wicked Issues Virtual Series: Student-led Civic Engagement – Apr 16

Posted by Campus Compact on April 15, 2025

Campus Compact and the Academy of Community Engagement Scholarship are partnering to host the Addressing Wicked Issues through Community-Engaged Scholarship series. Each year, this series takes a deep dive into some of the most critical issues threatening our communities and explores how we—higher education community engagement professionals, practitioners, and scholars—can make a difference.

The 2024-2025 Addressing Wicked Issues series will focus on youth and gun violence. Gun violence has become a vast and daunting issue that has impacted lives of youth across the country—as direct victims of violence, as witnesses to violence, and in day-to-day public life. In 2020, homicide was the second leading cause of death for 15-24 year-olds, with the vast majority involving firearms. Instances of gun violence in our schools and public spaces are prevalent in the media, and have led to growing calls to action from youth across the country.

To move the needle on complex and nuanced issue like gun violence, we must apply a variety different perspectives and approaches. This series will will generate resources, highlight promising examples, and create space to explore how higher education can make a difference through community-engaged research, community-engaged teaching and learning, anchor strategy & community partnerships, and student-led civic engagement.

Our next session is on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 3:00-4:30 PM and features three student and recent grad panelists (see below), each of whom have their own unique perspective on the issues related to youth and gun violence.

Learn more and register.