progressive u team's blog

We hope that you have come to ProU because you want your ideas to be heard. After all, we are a social welfare organization that encourages all youth to let their opinions be heard. Do any of those ideas involve directly changing your community, though? Want to get the funding you need to make that change now?  Read More »

So, Americans are always being blamed for consuming more than we should. We package things in too much packaging, throw things away without bothering to recycle, and clearly eat too much (or at least, too much of the wrong thing). Are you better than the average American when it comes to how many resources you do use? How do you stack up compared to other ProU users?  Read More »

Mobilize.org, an all-partisan network dedicated to educating, empowering, and energizing young people to increase our civic engagement and political participation, has put the call out for the Millennium Generation to help build the Democracy 2.0 project.

ProgressiveU would like to invite YOU to participate!  Read More »

You asked for it, and we're providing it.

In a recent poll, ProU users expressed interest in another feature to beat blogger's block. We already have the news page, but now we're introducing the Topic of the Week.  Read More »

First, can we just say you have all been working very hard to earn that scholarship, and we thank you for it. Your hard work and discussions have led to some insightful commentary and even a few laughs. Hopefully, each of you are learning just as much as you're bringing forth.  Read More »

We've all heard of, and maybe even attended, real world action rallies aimed at bringing attention to a single topic. But, how many of you have ever participated in a global online rally with that selfsame purpose?  Read More »

We apologize for the extended downtime last night. We just completed a major upgrade of our application software.

You will see several changes, and probably a few bugs at first. Please report any issues to info@progressiveu.org and we will attempt to fix them as quickly as possible.

If you are a frequent visitor and the positioning of things on the page looks strange, you may need to clear your browser cache. If that doesn't work, please report any problems that you see.

Also note that usernames and passwords are now cAsE sEnsiTive, so you will need to log in using any capitalization that you used when you registered.

Many of you from Fall 2006 contest and before are likely to remember the Featured Blogger feature that we had in place. Basically, the moderators and administrators would pick a few bloggers throughout the contest and feature them. Well, it got to be dead, in a way, as the same four bloggers were featured for nearly the entire contest. This was deemed unfair by many ProU members. So, we have developed a new system.  Read More »