Last Day for Early-Bird #CLDE18 Rates!

Don’t forget to register for the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (#CLDE18) organized by ADP, TDC, and NASPA from June 6-9, 2018 in Anaheim, California.

Early-bird rates expire today, Tuesday, May 1 – Register Now!

The American Democracy Project (ADP), The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and NASPA are committed to advancing the civic engagement movement in higher education. Join us in Anaheim, California for our annual conference which brings together faculty, student affairs professionals, senior campus administrators, students and community partners. Together we will ensure that students graduate from our colleges and universities–both public and private–prepared to be the informed, engaged citizens that our communities and our democracy need.

Register Online | Early-bird Rates End Tuesday, May 1 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern
Registration fee includes all program sessions and materials; reception on Thursday; and breakfast on Friday and Saturday. Register Online by May 1 for our best rates. Please register early to help us best plan this conference! Individuals from AASCU/ADP/TDC member campuses or with individual membership to NASPA have the following registration rates: Individual: $525 early-bird / $595 regular; Team Member: $465 early-bird / $545 regular. Other registration rates include: Undergraduate Students & Full-Time Graduate Students: $395; Non-Members: $625 early-bird / $725 regular.

Book Your Hotel Room by May 15 | Hyatt Regency Orange County
The CLDE 2017 meeting will take place at the Hyatt Regency Orange County (11999 Harbor Blvd. Garden Grove, CA 92840). The special conference rate is $169 for a standard room plus applicable state and local taxes. To obtain this rate, you must book your room by Tuesday, May 15, 2017. You can reserve your room online here. 

We look forward to seeing you in Anaheim in June!

eJournal of Public Affairs: New CLDE17 Issue

We’re thrilled to unveil the latest issue of the eJournal of Public Affairs, a collaboration between Missouri State University and AASCU’s American Democracy Project. This issue features content from the 2017 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement meeting in Baltimore, Md. organized by ADP, TDC, and NASPA’s LEAD Initiative.

Issue 7.1 of the eJournal of Public Affairs is what we’re reading!

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Intro Essay: Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement

By Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, National Manager, American Democracy Project, AASCU; Stephanie King, Assistant Director for Civic Engagement, Knowledge Community, and Social Justice Initiatives, NASPA; and Verdis Robinson National Director, The Democracy Commitment
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Articles

Collaborative Engagement from within the Academy: A Self-Reflexive Narrative

By Danielle L. Lake, Grand Valley State University
This essay builds upon the current movement around publicly engaged scholarship, seeking to illuminate its challenges, risks, and rewards through a…

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Enhancing Civic, Electoral, and Political Engagement Through International Student Inclusion

By Adrienne McNally, New York Institute of Technology
International students are often overlooked in the typical civic engagement activities of colleges and universities. However, including international students in such…

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College Student Food Insecurity and Awareness and Use of Supports: Recent Findings from a Survey of Students at a Mid-Sized State Comprehensive University in Kansas

By Brett Zollinger, Fort Hays State University; Shala Mills, State University of New York at New Paltz; Emily Brandt and Wendy Rohleder-Sook Fort Hays State University Recognition of food…

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Invited Essay: Educating for Democracy in Undemocratic Contexts: Avoiding the Zero-Sum Game of Campus Free Speech Versus Inclusion

By Nancy Thomas, Tufts University
The debate over free speech and inclusion in higher education is not new, but it has reached new levels of vitriol and confusion as…

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Bridging Civic Engagement to Civic Responsibility Through Short-Term, International Service-Learning Experiences: A Qualitative Analysis of Student Reflections

By Stephanie Malinenko, Justine Tutuska, and Lynn Matthews, Daemen College
Written reflection is a tool commonly used by faculty to assess student learning in service-learning courses, which are frequently…

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Reviews

Book Review: Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines

By Melanie Nichole Burdick, Washburn University
Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines. Edited by Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison Rios Millett McCartney, Elizabeth A. Bennion, and Dick Simpson. Washington, DC: American Political…

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Book Review: You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen

By Derek W. M. Barker, Kettering Foundation
You’re More Powerful Than You Think: A Citizen’s Guide to Making Change Happen. By Eric Liu. New York: Public Affairs. 2017. ISBN: 9781610397070. 256 pages.…
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Features

Invited Commentary: Democratic Engagement and Community Engagement: The American Democracy Project at California State University San Marcos

By Scott Gross, Kimber M. Quinney, and Catalina Langen, California State University San Marcos
The American Democracy Project (ADP) at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) is unique in…

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Food Pantry Making a Difference for FHSU Students

By Chase Willhite, Kansas Health Foundation
Across Kansas, as students like Shane Keller face increasing economic challenges, food insecurity becomes an issue. But, with the help of a Kansas Health…

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CivEd Talks – Doing Civic Engagement through a Wicked Problems Lens: The Case for Passionate Impartiality

By Martín Carcasson
Amid perhaps the most polarized time in our nation’s history, the quality of public discourse has also reached historic lows. Civic engagement practitioners must find ways to…

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CivEd Talks – Millennial Conservatism and Civic Engagement: No, Really, What Do Young Conservatives Want?

By Jane Coaston
Young conservatives are here to stay, and in 2016, they voted in higher numbers — and exhibited higher engagement with candidates and issues — than they had…

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CivEd Talks – Citizen Power

By Eric Liu
Far too many Americans are illiterate in power – what it is, how it operates, why some individuals have more than others. As a result, those few…

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#CLDE18: Not-to-Miss Pre-conference Workshops on Wed. Jun 6

During the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) Meeting there are a variety of half-day and full-day pre-conference workshops geared toward creating campus cultures, pedagogies and practices that advance a thriving democracy. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to explore assessment, political engagement, online information literacy, reacting to the past pedagogy, and more!

Check out the session descriptions on the meeting webpage and be sure to register by May 1st for our early-bird rates.

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9 a.m. – Noon
Half-day Morning Pre-Conference Workshop:
Experience to Integration: Immersive Civic Learning Through Historical Role-Playing Games
Organizers: Verdis Robinson, National Director, The Democracy Commitment and Mary Evins, Associate Research Professor of History, Middle Tennessee State University.

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9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Full-day Pre-conference Workshop
Civic Engagement Assessment: From Mission Statements to Meanings and Measures
Pre-Conference Workshops with Networking Lunch – sponsored by ETS
Organizers: Abe Goldberg, Executive Director of the Center for Civic Engagement and Associate Professor of Political Science, James Madison University; Ross Markle, Senior Assessment Strategist, Higher Education Division, ETS; and Dena Pastor, Associate Director of Assessment Operations – Center for Assessment & Research Studies and Professor of Graduate Psychology, James Madison University

Attend both half-day assessment pre-conference workshops for a reduced price and participate in our assessment networking lunch from Noon – 1 p.m. OR attend only the morning or only the afternoon sessions listed below.

• MORNING:  Making Assessment Work for You: Strategies to Bring Meaning to your Civic Engagement Efforts
• AFTERNOON: Leading Institutional Civic Learning and Engagement Efforts through Assessment

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1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Half-day Afternoon Pre-conference Workshop
Advancing Online Civic Literacy: New Skills for Citizens
Presenter: Mike Caulfield, ADP Civic Fellow and Director of Blended and Networked Learning, Washington State University Vancouver

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1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Half-day Afternoon Pre-conference Workshop
Politics 365 – Preparing for Political Engagement
Organizers: Nancy Thomas, Director, and Ishara Casellas Connors, Associate Director, Institute for Democracy & Higher Education (IDHE), Jonathan M. Tisch College for Civic Life at Tufts University (Mass.)

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1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
Half-day Afternoon Pre-conference Workshop
Student Pre-Conference Workshop
For CLDE students only; free
Organizers: 2018 CLDE Student Interns: Vera Barcega-Ramirez, student, College of the Canyons (Calif.); Hannah Jackson, student, University of Nevada, Reno (Nev.); Collin Sullivan, student, University of Maryland, Baltimore County (Md.)

Be sure to register by May 1st for our best rates and book your hotel room by May 16 at our special group rate!

 

Building a CLDE Theory of Change: 5 Essays and An Invitation

Today Forbes published the last in a series of five essays we wrote together to amplify and invite conversations about the CLDE Emergent Theory of Change first shared widely at the 2017 CLDE Meeting in Baltimore. Because you have been partners and sources of inspiration for this work, we wanted to share the entire series with you, encourage you to share the essays as you see fit, and invite your feedback.

1. Hope And Strategy For A Thriving Democracy
   We believe higher education and its partners in communities across America need a vision of civic learning and democratic engagement for our time: oriented to the thriving democracy we have not yet achieved, but can build together.

2. Civic Learning And Democratic Engagement For What? Envisioning A Thriving Democracy
   There can be no single, simple antidote to the frustration and fatalism engendered by features of our common world. Yet we can imagine a new era in which higher education’s civic learning and democratic engagement work helps to unleash the latent energy of Americans yearning for inclusion, connection, and collective agency.
   

3. Civics Unbound: Knowledge, Skills, And Dispositions For A Thriving Democracy
   In order to foster the democratic values we discussed in our previous post, institutions also must embody the civic ethos we hope will ultimately prevail in our society. Doing so is likely to involve relaxing our expectations relating to control and quantitative measurement, as well as intentionally eliminating some of the boundaries we have placed around our imaginations, relationships and learning processes.

4. Integral, Relational, Organic, And Generative: Pedagogy For A Thriving Democracy
   Can we achieve our ambitious civic learning outcomes more effectively by planting more seeds and imposing less structure? We can begin answering that broad question by interrogating our current practices and considering some new possibilities.

5. A Gathering Of Hopes And Stories: Organizing For A Thriving Democracy
   Despite being sobered by the magnitude of the challenge, the four of us are optimistic about the possibility of initiating meaningful changes in and through institutions of higher education. Our hope is grounded in experiences with community organizing and long-term change strategies, and in the recognition that champions of the democratic values and practices described in our previous essays in this series have extraordinary assets on which to build.
   

We also hope you’ll join us for the 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement meeting from June 6-8, 2018 in Anaheim, California. Early-bird registration ends May 1 – register here.

We look forward to your feedback and hope you’ll share your insights, reflections and commentary with us by email or as comments on the essays themselves on the Forbes platform.

Thanks,

David Hoffman, Jen Domagal-Goldman, Stephanie King & Verdis Robinson
UMBC, ADP, NASPA Lead & TDC

RATES GO UP MAY 1! Champion Engagement with Democracy and Join Us at #CLDE18 in Anaheim

Foster, empower, and magnify civic engagement in your students to create a better tomorrow

Rates go up May 1 – register today!

An unprecedented chapter of America’s political history is upon us and it has never been more critical to nurture engagement with democracy in our students and in our communities. Together we will work to ensure that students graduate from our colleges and universities–both public and private–prepared to be the informed, engaged citizens that our communities and our democracy need.

The 2018 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting (CLDE18), being held June 6-9, 2018 at the Hyatt Regency Orange County, in Anaheim, California, offers an opportunity for student affairs professionals, faculty, community partners, and students, to participate in discourse around the fundamentals of democracy and gain inspiration from our featured speakers to take back to your campus community. #CLDE18 will rejuvenate your passion for activating your students to be the change they want to see in the world.

We urge you to be a part of something bigger than yourself by joining us as a participant for this year’s convening of change. Register by May 1 to get the best rates.