2024 Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement Meeting
Share knowledge and develop a sense of community around civic learning and democratic engagement.
American Democracy Project Resources
AASCU’s immediately actionable resources give state college and university leaders vital insights and practical guidance supporting institutional transformation.
All-ADP Meetings
Online professional development opportunities to expand the American Democracy Project community and to increase civic awareness and work on campuses.
Register for the series.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: Voter Engagement and Education
Nov. 10, 2023
2:00PM-3:30PM ET
Webinar
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All-ADP Meeting: Leading for Democracy
The ADP community connects to discuss AASCU’s Leading for Democracy initiative.
All-ADP Meeting: Voter Engagement and Education
The ADP community connects to discuss AASCU’s Leading for Democracy initiative.
All-ADP Meeting: Community Building
The ADP community connects to discuss AASCU’s Leading for Democracy initiative.
National Constitution Day Conversations
A national facilitated dialogue based on the fundamental value of the pursuit of knowledge for the public good.
AASCU Launches New Initiative to Help Higher Education Lead for a More Equitable and Just Society
A new initiative to help campus leaders create conditions for equitable democracy to thrive.
AASCU Announces Winners of the 2023 Civic Engagement Awards
Honoring ADP campuses doing extraordinary work to promote and re-imagine civic engagement.
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.
Questions about past programs? Let us know.
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