1. We hope to ameliorate educational disparities that exist and innately affect an individual’s ability to succeed; these disparities take away from a student’s educational well-being – despite having no relevance to a student’s intrinsic desire to learn. Examples of these disparities include, but are not to, the following:

•  Coming into college from underdeveloped communities – thereby starting with an intrinsically lower amount of knowledge than those coming from developed communities. 
• Not having the time to meet the temporal constraints of college-supplied resources (i.e. Student Learning Center, Office Hours, etc.) 
• Lack of a strong support network that encourages, challenges and assists an individual. Students without this network are less likely to have knowledge of additional educational resources (i.e. “test banks” that are often provided by fraternities such has Tau Beta Pi, or “free study groups” offered by Bioengineering Honor Society, etc.)

2. Furthermore, we also hope to redefine the notion of learning such that it promotes a more cooperative and stimulating mindset. The current learning philosophy is such that students consistently work “toward a grade,” which inevitably creates a tense classroom environment – one where students feel like they are competing for a limited number of “As.” This hostile environment can detrimentally affect the mindsets of many students because it causes them to question their own intelligence; more importantly, it wrongly motivates them into thinking that they should learn to get an A rather than to simply learn for the sake of learning. This misconception robs true joys of learning and turns learning into a “chore”  that students much complete to attain their degree. PEACE aspires to break this notion and help students realize the true value of learning; by doing so, PEACE wants to sway students away from competition and create an atmosphere of cooperation where all students help one another make the most of their educational experiences. 

Currently, we are providing the services below; however, because the idea is still in the early stages, the services are not entirely developed:

• Free one-on-one tutoring which can be requested by various students in various undergraduate UC Berkeley classes. 
• An online advising network that answers common questions for any incoming students in various domains of college-life. 
• A database of course syllabi that actually provides an in-depth look at the curriculum of specific classes (can still be further developed). 
• Online course-specific questions generated by PEACE members that can assist other students who are currently taking the class (providing an online resource that can be reached by any/all students). 
• Sample schedules uploaded by various PEACE members that can provide insights to incoming students about the courses/majors that are offered at UC Berkeley. 
• A nascent Youtube channel where we discuss difficult concepts with which students often struggle. 

Please note that though we offer the aforementioned services, all of the services are still in the developing stages. By no means ave we come close to accomplishing our mission and alleviating the problems we set out to solve. By showcasing these facets to Big Ideas, we hope to demonstrate that the idea of PEACE has lots of potential. If given the chance, this idea could truly revolutionize the notion of education not only across UC Berkeley, but also at other large universities around the world. 

1. Work on further developing and perfecting the services we already offer (as shown above).
2. Generating a comprehensive database of online and on-campus resources (a template of which we’ve already started with). 
3. Outreaching to high schools. 
4. Establishing an alumni network that can provide support to current undergraduates. 
5. Creating a functional tutee to tutor pipeline.
6 .Planning and executing an annual educational symposium that can provide additional insights for students.