Up To Us Nationwide Campus Competition

Students Take Action for a Better Fiscal and Economic Future

Congratulations to the University of Virginia team for winning 1st prize in the 2013 Up to Us competition! Learn more about the U.Va. team's campaign, and other schools' efforts, here.

Up to Us, a nationwide campus competition sponsored and managed by the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact, provides an opportunity for students to build a movement to raise awareness and engagement on America's long-term fiscal and economic challenges. Student teams selected from across the country compete to design and run thought-provoking, fun and impactful campaigns around the effects of rising debt on economic opportunity and investment in the future. Learn more about Up to Us here.

The 2013 Up to Us competition, running from January through March, generated a number of inventive efforts that engaged thousands of students digitally and on the ground. Below are some highlights:

VIDEOS

NEWS

• New campaign focuses students’ attention on fiscal challenges, USA Today, 4/13/2012
   
• Chelsea and Bill Clinton on ‘Change Makers,’ the Youth Vote, and More, The Daily Beast, 4/23/2012
   
• Stern Students Launch Campaign to Tackle Debt Crisis, Washington Square News (New York, NY), 1/28/2013
   
• Students Compete to Solve U.S. Crisis, The Michigan Daily (Ann Arbor, MI), 1/30/2013
   
• College Democrats and Republicans Join to Fight National Debt, The American University Eagle (Washington, DC), 2/6/2013
   
• At UVA, Warner Stumps for Bipartisan Solution to National Debt, UVA Today (Charlottesville, VA), 2/11/2013
   
• Students Compete to Raise Fiscal Awareness, The Daily Texan (Austin, TX), 2/20/2013
   
• Financial Summit Confronts Debt Crisis, The Brown Daily Herald (Providence, RI), 2/23/2013
   
• The Day in Photos: Students Deliver Cookies and Letters on the Debt to Capitol Hill, POLITICO, 2/27/2013
   
• Students Take on Federal Debt Crisis, USA Today, 3/1/2013

PRESS RELEASES

• The Peter G. Peterson Foundation, Clinton Global Initiative University and Net Impact Announce Nationwide Campus Fiscal Competition
   
• "Up To Us" Campus Competition: Students Taking Action for a Better Fiscal and Economic Future
   
• College Students Chosen for Nationwide Competition Declare It's "Up to Us" to Focus Attention on America's Growing National Debt
   
• College Students Launch Campaigns Across the Country to Activate a New Generation on the Nation's Fiscal Challenges
   
• University of Virginia Students Win National Competition Focused on Confronting Rising Debt

STUDENT OP-EDS

• Soundoff: Fix the debt now or risk sinking later, The Georgetown Voice (Washington, DC), 2/27/2013
   
• Op-Ed: American Youth Must Take a Stand on the Sequester, The Brown Daily Herald (Providence, RI), 2/28/2013