The campaigns hope to use the power of crowdfunding to raise money for a variety of programs that serve students and the community.

Schill in November announced the Oregon Commitment, which provides many in-state students the support they need to graduate in four years.

Award-winning investigative reporter Nikole Hannah-Jones will discuss how smart phones and social media are democratizing the press and empowering people of color as part of the BEseries of campus talks.Hannah-Jones covers racial injustice for The New York Times Magazine and spent the last four years investigating the way racial segregation in housing and schools continues through official action and policy. Her talk will look at how current events relate to the role of the press, the police and the people.

Ricardo Valencia wants people to be more aware of how the American media has covered the surge of unaccompanied children entering the U.S. from Central America.

The talk is part of the Center for the Study of Women in Society's regular series featuring faculty and graduate research.