LINKS

See Also:

Civic Engagement and UNC Tomorrow (see Civic Engagement Links)

Civic Engagement, News and Views

Implementation Ideas

"A Different Way to Fight Student Disengagement"
[Article, Inside Higher Ed, April 15, 2008]
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/04/15/harward

St. Lawrence University, Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership
http://www.stlawu.edu/ccel/communitypartnerships.html

Here is an idea from Princeton:  a special online listing of all faculty with an interest in/expertise in Civic Engagement:

http://pace.princeton.edu/undergraduate/faculty_directory/?section=undergraduate&id=faculty_directory

Beyond just a physical space, here is an example of a civic engagement center from the University of Washington

http://depts.washington.edu/ccce/Home.htm

There is also an entire literature on the use of technology to further civic engagement—click here, for example.

See also:  MIT Center for Future Civic Media

http://civic.mit.edu/?page_id=36

http://www.media.mit.edu/research/2291
Civic Life Online:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/browse/browse.asp?btype=6&serid=170

Democracy Plaza IUPUI) – mentioned by Mehaffy

https://demplaza.usg.iupui.edu/

WCU has Civic Place, located in the Village, described as “A small living/learning community designed to foster civic engagement;

organized by the Center for Service Learning.”

Organizations (many mentioned by Mehaffy)

American Democracy Project

SourceWatch (the names behind the news)

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=American_Democracy_Project

ADP

Spring Academic Affairs Colloquium, 2004:

http://www.brockport.edu/adp/kickoff/agenda.html

Campus Compact

Civic Engagement Initiatives

http://www.compact.org/initiatives/civic_engagement/

Presidents’ Declaration on Civic Responsibility of Higher Education

http://www.compact.org/resources/declaration/

R1 Universities and Engaged Scholarship

http://www.compact.org/news/press/release/753

CIRCLE

Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement

http://www.civicyouth.org/

Youth Voter Turnout, Voting Trends

http://www.civicyouth.org/quick/youth_voting.htm

Commissions Related to Civic Engagement

http://www.foundationnews.org/CME/article.cfm?ID=1685

Congress To Campus

http://www.stennis.gov/congress2campus.htm

Future of the First Amendment (Knight Foundation)

http://firstamendmentfuture.org/

See also

http://www.jideas.org/news.php

Geographic (il)literacy

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/roper2006/

HENCE

Higher Education for Community Engagement (HENCE)

Kettering Foundation

What Does it Take to Make Democracy Work as it Should?

National Alliance for Civic Education

http://www.cived.net/index.html

Resources, Civic Renewal

http://www.cived.net/rsrc_civren.html

National Conference on Citizenship

Includes Civic Health Index; impressive list of partners

http://www.ncoc.net/

National Commission on Civic Renewal (Final Report)

http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED424174&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=no&accno=ED424174

National Endowment for Democracy

Supporting Freedom Around the World

PEW Partnership

http://www.pew-partnership.org/

Saguaro Seminar -- Civic Engagement in America
Includes Social Capital Community Benchmark Survey; social capital and social networking references, surveys

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/saguaro/measurement.htm

 

Sustainable Communities Network

Resources

http://www.sustainable.org/creating/civic.html

US Dept. of Education

Institute of Education Sciences

National Center for Education Statistics

National Assessment of Education Progress

Nation’s Report Card

(Mathematics, Reading, Economics, History, Civics, Science, Writing [new], High School)

http://nces.ed.gov/naep3/

http://nationsreportcard.gov/

Youth Service America

Global Youth Service Day (April 25-27)

http://ysa.org/natlgysd/tabid/59/default.aspx

References

A Paradigm Shift from Instruction to Learning [condensed version]

Barr and Tagg

Eric Digest

http://www.ericdigests.org/1998-2/shift.htm

A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education

R. B. Barr and J. Tagg (1995)

Original article

http://critical.tamucc.edu/~blalock/readings/tch2learn.htm

PDF version

http://ilte.ius.edu/pdf/BarrTagg.pdf

Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000)

Robert Putnam

http://www.bowlingalone.com/

(But see Hoover Institute article for different perspective)

See also, Wikipedia entry on Putnam

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Putnam

On Robert Putnam’s 2007 study:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_handler/20070830.html

Civic Renewal vs. Moral Renewal

(Good summary article out of the Hoover Institution)

http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3563902.html

“Crafting a Youth ‘Voter Culture’”

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2006/11/08/turnout

“The Election Challenge for Campuses” [Students must lead the effort]

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/01/28/herbst

“Presidential Politics and the Student Vote”

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/12/06/politics

(College vs. Non-College)

Voter Turnout Among College Students (article)

http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/5/2/3/5/p152357_index.html

POQ article

http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/1/113

"Turning Discontent Into Deliberation"

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/04/03/cooper

"Citizenship and Democracy"

George L. Mehaffy, Commencement Address UTA, May 2006

http://www.uta.edu/coed/commence/mehaffy.php

The Future of Freedom

Fareed Zakaria

Tools

Social Network Analysis

Kennedy School of Government

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/sna_methods_tools.htm

 

Kennedy School – Social networks

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/index.htm

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/sna.htm

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/sna_methods_tools.htm

http://www.hks.harvard.edu/netgov/html/links.htm

The Citizen’s Handbook

http://www.vcn.bc.ca/citizens-handbook/

Voter Turnout/Youth Vote

American National Election Studies:

http://www.electionstudies.org/

Current Population Survey:

http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/voting.html

    2004

    http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/p20-556.pdf

Youth turnout (CIRCLE):

http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/Release_Turnout2004.pdf

http://www.civicyouth.org/quick/youth_voting.htm

    Young voters, 2006 elections

    http://www.civicyouth.org/PopUps/FactSheets/FS-Midterm06.pdf

Institute of Politics, Harvard (IOP):

Youth Vote Surveys

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/content/advancedsearch?SearchText=youth+survey+on+politics

IOP Youth Survey, Spring 2007

http://www.iop.harvard.edu/var/ezp_site/storage/fckeditor/file/pdfs/Research-Publications/survey_s2007_topline.pdf

Voter turnout, U.S. Elections Project (LINKS to additional resources):

http://elections.gmu.edu/voter_turnout.htm

General description of voter turnout (Wikipedia):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_turnout

More Voter Turnout Links

• U.S. Election Assistance Commission

• Electionline.org

• Election Data Services

• Center for the Study of the American Electorate

• Vanishing Voter Project

• Help America Vote Act (Text of law)

• National Historical Geographic Information System