ProgressiveU provides young people with the opportunity to discover, analyze and discuss the values and democratic principles that promote a healthy and just society. This includes, but is not limited to, open discussion of current events, progressive values, and public policy priorities.
We publish articles, editorials, artwork, poetry, and essays that are of interest to high school and college level students, as well as the greater community.
Contributions to ProgressiveU should encourage others to think, to speak up, and to reach out to others, while focusing on relevant progressive principals such as effective government, social justice, personal freedom, and broad prosperity. Articles should allow members to analyze the root causes of the problems or conflicts associated with those relevant principals and stimulate discussion of solutions. In addition, contributions must be interesting and original. They should encourage debate, have social or political value, and be sincere.
ProgressiveU editors routinely promote posts to the "front page" news section of ProgressiveU. These posts must be of exemplary quality, and they may be edited prior to being published on the front page. Posts should identify sources where applicable, be thought provoking, and exceed the 200 word count minimum to allow for analysis and discussion by community members. Articles written by editors must be peer reviewed by at least one other member of the editorial team before being promoted to the front page. No article with more than four paragraphs of unoriginal content will be accepted.
It should be further noted that once a post has been promoted to the front page any edits or revisions will cause the post to be automatically be unpublished from the front page. The post must be re-approved by the editorial team before being promoted to the front page again.
Submissions may be edited for spelling and grammar without the authors consent. Furthermore, submissions that violate the Terms of Service in any way will be removed from ProgressiveU. Readers may report violations of our terms of service by using the "Flag This Page" button at the right side of every article and forum post. Users who violate the Terms of Service and other rules of the site repeatedly will be removed from the site.
ProgressiveU's FAQs are official policy on the site, and are subject to change without notice.
We also encourage readers to rate posts submitted by others. Doing so will bring good submissions to the attention of our editors and other readers, and some posts that are highly rated will be promoted to the front page or included in our featured blogger section.
The views and opinions expressed in postings on ProgressiveU do not necessarily reflect the official position of ProgressiveU. Please contact the editorial team with any questions regarding these policies.
