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We just finsihed our 9/11 Day of Service and are honored that Regent Carrigan came and spoke to us.
Join us on Sunday for the National Day of Service and Remembrance in in honor of September 11th. We're doing an energy service project in Denver, joining thousands of grassroots service projects taking place across the nation.
The Textbook Rebellion kicked off a six-week, cross-country tour with events planned for 40 campuses nationwide. At the tour stop, the University of Maryland, coalition members, students, faculty and a representative from the U.S. Department of Education were joined by the tour mascots, 'Mr. $200 Textbook' and 'Textbook Rebel,' to announce the launch.
It's been 8 years since we launched a campaign to make textbooks more affordable. I’m impressed by the progress we’ve made, but there’s still much work to be done.
It’s buying season though, so before I give the rundown on the campaign, check out the NYT’s Guide to Finding Cheap Textbooks.
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Jobs for Graduating Seniors
If you are ready to dig in and start solving the problems that confront our country, consider a job with U.S. PIRG.
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Let's Make Health Care Work
We're working to make health care work in Colorado by supporting a pro-consumer health insurance exchange to bring competition to the health insurance marketplace, increasing affordability, access and choice for hundreds of thousands of families and small businesses.
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Intern with CoPIRG
As a CoPIRG Student Chapters intern you'll learn skills and get valuable experience working on a campaign. You’ll learn how to build teams of volunteers, organize events on campus, and work with the media.
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A crash course in effective citizenship.
Get the basic tools necessary to run strong campaigns and service projects and win reforms both on and off campus for students and the public interest.
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Make Textbooks More Affordable
We are educating professors about ways they can help reduce the cost of textbooks, like turning their book orders in on time and adopting open textbooks.
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CoPIRG Energy Service Corps
A joint project with AmeriCorps to educate and engage communities around energy efficiency. We educate the campus and community about the simple things we can do to save energy like switching out our old light bulbs to more energy efficient CFLs.
Internships

Work on important issues, learn valuable skills, get hands-on experience, and make a difference.