TDC Civic Learning Institute on Reacting to the Past & The Community College

REACTING TO THE PAST & THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE:
IMMERSIVELY TEACHING RACE, SOCIAL UPRISINGS, AND CIVIC SKILLS

When:
Veteran’s Day Weekend
November 10, 2017   | 9:00 am – 5:00pm
November 11, 2017   | 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
November 11, 2017 | 12:30 pm -2:00 pm- Historical Guided Tour of National Mall

Where:
AASCU Offices, Washington, DC
1307 New York Avenue, NW (Within blocks of the White House)

Our friends and partners at The Democracy Commitment (TDC) invite you to participate in their Inaugural Immersive Civic Learning Institute. TDC is a non-partisan national organization dedicated to advancing democracy and citizenship in our community colleges.  Reacting to the Past (RTTP) consists of elaborate games, set in the past, in which students are assigned roles informed by classic texts in the history of ideas. This immersive pedagogy enhances history and political science courses and features civic skill building which is embedded in the games. Pioneered by historian Dr. Mark C. Carnes, RTTP has been implemented at over 350 colleges and universities in the U.S. and abroad.

College ​faculty and administrators ​are ​invited ​to ​register ​for ​this Immersive Civic Learning Institute ​presented by TDC’s ​new Civic ​Leadership ​Academy ​in coordination with the Reacting ​Consortium (RC).

Conference ​participants ​will ​learn how to engaged students in civic learning & skill building using ​the ​RTTP ​pedagogy in this intensive ​two-day ​workshop ​of ​either ​”Bacon’s ​Rebellion, ​1676-1677: ​Birth ​of ​American ​Institutional ​Racism,” ​or ​”Chicago, ​1968: ​The ​Democratic ​National ​Convention.” ​ Register today and share with your colleagues.

Registration:
TDC and Reacting Consortium Members: $165 | All Others $195

To register and for more information go here.

ADP Webinar: Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines

Join AASCU’s American Democracy Project on Wednesday, November 1, 2017 from 2:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. for a free, live web conference with the editors of the new book Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines. Register here.

Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines: An ADP Web Conference
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. EST

Elizabeth Bennion, Elizabeth C. Matto, Alison Rios Millett McCartney, and Dick Simpson, the editors of this 2017 American Political Science Association publication, will share with participants a review of the goals, challenges and rewards of integrating civic education into the curriculum, while highlighting best practices across disciplines and campuses. The publication includes a diverse group of 38 contributors who approach civic engagement education from many perspectives and this webinar – as well as the text and accompanying website — is a great resource for any educator.

Key topics will include:

1. New FREE Resources for You: Using the Book & Website to Maximize Civic Learning Outcomes
2. Foundations of Civic Engagement Education
3. Teaching Civic Engagement Across the Disciplines
4. Civic Learning Beyond the Classroom
5. Teaching Engagement: A Status Update and Agenda for the Future
6. Participant Questions

Register for the free web conference here.
Learn more about the Speakers here.
Download and read the book here.
Access the companion website with additional resources here.

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Speakers

Elizabeth Bennion
Elizabeth Bennion is a professor of political science at Indiana University South Bend (IUSB). In addition to teaching American politics courses, Bennion is the founding director of IUSB’s American Democracy Project and host of WNIT’s live weekly television program Politically Speaking. In these capacities she moderates political discussions, public issue forums, and candidate debates for local, state, and national candidates. Bennion has won numerous (national, state, and local) awards for her teaching and service, and has published widely in academic books, journals, and newsletters. Her teaching, research, and service all promote civic education and engagement. She is currently working on a national survey of student leaders, a study of youth political ambition, and a multi-campus voter registration field experiment. Bennion coedited the previous APSA book Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen. She lives in South Bend with her husband and four children.

Elizabeth C. Matto
Elizabeth C. Matto is an associate research professor at the Eagleton Institute of Politics and the director of the Institute’s Center for Youth Political Participation (CYPP). She earned her doctorate in American politics at George Washington University and, prior to her work at Eagleton, taught a variety of courses at Princeton University, Temple University, and George Washington University. As director of CYPP, Matto leads research as well as educational and public service efforts designed to encourage and support the political learning of high school and college students and civic action among young adults. In 2016, she was the recipient of the Craig L. Brians Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research & Mentorship by the American Political Science Association.

Alison Rios Millett McCartney
Alison Rios Millett McCartney is professor of political science and faculty director of the Honors College at Towson University outside of Baltimore, Maryland. She contributed to and coedited another volume on this topic, Teaching Civic Engagement: From Student to Active Citizen, with Elizabeth Bennion and Dick Simpson in 2013 and has published other work connecting civic engagement education and international relations in the Journal of Political Science Education. McCartney is also very involved in undergraduate research and teaching international negotiation simulations. She has received several teaching awards including the University of Maryland System Regents’ Award for Mentoring, the Maryland-DC Campus Compact Award for Service-Learning Scholarship, and the Towson University Service-Learning Faculty Member Award. She received her BA from Syracuse University and her masters and PhD from the University of Virginia.

Dick Simpson
Dick Simpson has uniquely combined a distinguished academic career with public service in government. He is a former Chicago alderman and candidate for US Congress.  He has published widely, been an outstanding teacher, and affected public policy. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1967 where he has taught for 50 years. At UIC he received the highest awards given for teaching and the American Political Science Association (APSA) and Pi Sigma Alpha National Award for Outstanding Teaching. He is a former department head (2006–2012), a previous director of the department’s Preparing Future Faculty program, and currently professor of the political science at UIC.

 

 

 

Apply by 9/15 for Engaged Campus Institute

Apply by September 15th for your campus team to participate in our Nov.3&4 Engaged Campus Institute!

ADP Reopens Civic Fellows Application — Due August 18

By Cameron Lee, ADP Intern, AASCU

Professionals and scholars once again have the opportunity to become ADP Civic Fellows, a new initiative of the American Democracy Project. Civic Fellows will have the span of a one-year renewable term to develop their own research and ideas to design and advance ADP programming on a national scale. The Civic Fellowship is a cohort experience and members will receive support from the ADP national office in the form of programmatic, publication and leadership opportunities, as well as free registration to an AASCU event or conference. Working closely with Jennifer Domagal-Goldman, ADP National Manager, and the steering committee, Civic Fellows will ultimately explore assessment, research, and programmatic efforts related to ADP’s civic learning and democratic engagement mission and affect change within ADP.

Although four Civic Fellows (to be publicly announced in August) have already been accepted, ADP is reopening applications to expand the reach of this opportunity.

Applications are now due on Friday, August 18th, 2017 and they must be submitted to Jennifer Domagal-Goldman at domagalj@aascu.org no later than then. For questions, please contact Jennifer Domagal-Goldman at 202-478-7833 and click here for further information about the program.

The application can be found here.

 

4/29 Free ADP Dialogue Moderator Training Workshop in Washington, DC

Please join us for this free training by registering HERE by April 17, 2017. Lunch will be provided. Click here for the tentative agenda.