PROGRESS Fall 2025 Teach-In: Uniting Students to Discuss Gun Violence Impact on Students and Prevention Strategies and Solutions

December 8th, 2025

PROGRESS proudly hosted its second student Teach-In on December 8th. Planned, organized, and led by students, the Teach-In featured engaging and thought-provoking conversations about gun violence in the United States and gathered perspectives on different experiences and solutions to gun violence.

PROGRESS teach-ins provide UMD students with opportunities to plan, organize, participate in, and lead a dialogue and exchange of views on salient issues pertaining to gun violence, including: impacts on society in general and youth and students in particular, and mitigation and prevention strategies and solutions.
To date, topics touched on during the series of teach-ins have included:

•  What is the best way for students to get involved in gun violence prevention activities and research?
• How can we coordinate efforts among university-based actors and community-based organizations to reduce gun violence and save lives?
• How is gun violence being addressed by various research disciplines on campus (i.e. Education, Health, Family Science, Criminology, etc.)?

Teach-ins are open forums in which broad participation by campus groups working toward violence reduction is strongly encouraged. PROGRESS and our student teach-in coordinators have been honored to welcome representatives from these leading campus organizations: 

• Black Health Research Lab
• UMD Students Demand Action
• UMD Violence Reduction Center
• xFoundry
  Read more about this teach-in here.