Untold Stories and Peer Advocacy

This movie captures Student Voice at its most dynamic and impactful. Under their own impetus, Chabot College students began an unprecedented OutReach effort to bring new students to college. They reached out to 3000 prospective students. These Chabot peer advocates worked tirelessly for 5 weeks: calling, texting, meeting personally with prospective students, and much more. They helped directly sign up 150 new students. They cleared up problems and answered questions for another 500, who then were able to sign themselves up. In addition, they offered support for an additional 500 students who WERE signed up, but who still had questions. In just 3 weeks this project helped bring  hundreds of new students to Chabot--enabling new dreams to begin--and the project also helped to address Chabot's fiscal shortage. This student-run project generated over $1.5 million dollars for Chabot College.