Ideas In Action is a program dedicated to promoting issue-awareness on Princeton's campus through a series of theme-weeks. These theme-weeks are the result of the collaborative efforts of the student & performing arts groups, faculty, staff, and alumni to provide an engaging series of debates, lectures, discussions and performances relating to current-issues.
But the strength of the
Ideas In Action, is that campus-wide involvement doesn't end with student
groups whose mission is directly related to the issue.
Faculty members in the field can lecture, academic departments may hold
debates or open houses, the theatrics and performing arts groups can write/choose
their performances around the theme, even the dining halls and eating
clubs can play their part.
If the theme was "An Exploration of the American South," dining services
could prepare Cajun and soul food from the south. Another component of
the program's strength, is the involvement of student groups which have
an indirect connection with the theme For example, if theme dealt with
the Internet and the advent of the computer in the 20th century, a group
like the Organization of Women Leaders, which may not be fundamentally
related to the subject of computer technology, could play a valuable role
by inviting prominent women in the forefront of the Information Technology
field.
