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All-ADP Meetings

Online professional development opportunities to expand the American Democracy Project community and to increase civic awareness and work on campuses.

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Elevate your campus civic engagement with online professional development.

All-ADP meetings are a way to build our community and meet colleagues from across the country. This year, in order to widen and deepen our community, we will have a consistent meeting schedule and a dedicated monthly topic. We hope these meetings can be professional development opportunities and that you can invite colleagues from your campus to join this work, as new topics surface.

Meetings are on second Fridays from 2–3:30 p.m. (ET).

Who should participate?

  • Faculty
  • Staff
  • Deans
  • Provosts/assistant provosts
  • Campus leaders

How will you benefit?

  • Increasing civic ethos on your campus
  • Connecting to the American Democracy Project community
  • Expanding opportunities for collaboration
  • Professional development
UPCOMING ALL-ADP MEETINGS
All-ADP Meeting: Leading for Democracy

Oct. 13, 2023

2:00PM-3:30PM ET

Webinar

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All-ADP Meeting: Voter Engagement and Education

Nov. 10, 2023

2:00PM-3:30PM ET

Webinar

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All-ADP Meeting: Community Building

Dec. 8, 2023

2:00PM-3:30PM ET

Webinar

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Questions about the All-ADP Meetings? Let us know.

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Exemplar Programs from ADP

Explore the rich history, powerful outcomes, and pervasive impact of these American Democracy Project programs.

Global Civic Literacy

Through partnership with World101 from the Council on Foreign Relations, faculty and staff designed curriculum, activities, and assessments to help students increase their knowledge of our global society and understand how global issues influence lives of everyday citizens. Occurring from 2019-2022, more than 80 faculty and staff from over 40 institutions participated in this project.

Resources

For more information and to access the critical resources that they created, please explore:

Participating in Politics

The Political Engagement Project (PEP), a partnership with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, advanced democratic and electoral engagement by providing students with both tangible and critical-thinking skills for participating in the political world.

The Engaged the Election 2016 project, a partnership with The Democracy Commitment and icitizen, a civic engagement app, advanced informed nonpartisan engagement in the presidential election.

Economic Literacy

The Economic Literacy project was in partnership with Up to Us,and included over 40 faculty at 19 institutions. Designed to help students increase their knowledge of the U.S. national debt, fiscal policy, and overall financial literacy, faculty created a toolkit to share their strategies and resources more broadly.

The Economic Inequality Initiative focused on understanding the impact of economic inequality on our democracy while helping students think about and take action to confront its complex causes.

The America’s Future Initiative, a partnership with Public Agenda from 2008 to 2011, focused on educating students about looming national debt and deficits, while exploring potential solutions.

Developing Citizenship Skills

The Deliberative Polling Initiative, a partnership with the Center for Deliberative Democracy, engaged 29 AASCU campuses in the exploration of strategies to engage students, faculty, staff and community members in discussions about public issues and to develop students’ citizenship skills.

The eCitizenship Initiative, a partnership with the Center for the Study of Citizenship at Wayne State University from 2009 to 2012, brought together campuses to examine how emerging technologies, particularly social networks, support and facilitate civic and political engagement.

Improving Civic Health and Agency

The Civic Agency Initiative, a partnership with the Center for Democracy and Citizenship from 2008 to 2012, sought to produce a series of national models for developing civic agency among undergraduates.

The Campus and Community Civic Health Initiative, a partnership with the National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) from 2012 to 2014, was designed to identify and develop campus and community civic health assessments and tools, as well as action plans that responded to the findings.

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