With their Choose Your Own Adventure website, these student journalists asked their peers to consider the consequences of their housing choices

Students on every campus make choices about where they live during their college years that impact their academic, social and work lives.

But how do their choices impact the city long-term?

That’s what students at The Daily Cardinal set out to explore when they conceived “Our Impact: The Student Living Issue.”

I went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison in September to train about a dozen students, and have worked with them weekly since to see their project through. Their project culminated Dec. 6 in an online presentation that showcased their work to their colleagues, department personnel and Poynter leadership.

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