AASCU 2024 Summer Meeting for Academic and Student Affairs Leaders
Meet with colleagues to share and learn from each other’s challenges and successes.
Meet with colleagues to share and learn from each other’s challenges and successes.
Plan for voter engagement and support information literacy and free speech on campus.
Join AASCU’s American Democracy Project in helping our campuses prepare students and communities to participate in the 2024 local, state, and national elections.
This election season promises to be one of the most contentious in American history. The divisions that are apparent in our communities and regions will be played out on our campuses. As “stewards of place,” AASCU campuses are vital sites for building a vibrant and healthy democracy, preparing students to be informed and engaged citizens and modeling for our communities free and open debate on difficult issues.
Throughout the spring 2024 term, AASCU’s American Democracy Project will convene a series of virtual education and engagement workshops as well as regional summits designed to engage faculty, staff, and administrators at AASCU campuses on topics related to voter education, engagement, and turnout.
This non-partisan initiative aims to encourage conversation, demonstrate best practices, and provide critical resources so that our campuses can build capacity and a campus culture that encourages engagement in building a strong democracy.
Voter education is defined as building knowledge, civic skills, and democratic values. Sessions include best practices to build knowledge, skills, and democratic values, informational overviews, resource spotlights, and trainings designed to incorporate civics into curriculum and co-curriculum. They are designed for faculty and staff who wish to incorporate information literacy, deliberative dialogues, and issue-based discussions into their campus during fall 2024.
Plan for voter engagement and support information literacy and free speech on campus.
Explore ways to cope with political polarization and enhance well-being on campus.
Build campus-community ties and integrate voter education in your classroom.
Voter engagement encourages and supports peaceful and meaningful participation in elections within our communities. Sessions include strategies for building, implementing, and assessing campus voting plans and; understanding legislation about voting on campuses. They are designed for campus leaders who support student and community voting.
Plan for voter engagement and support information literacy and free speech on campus.
Explore ways to cope with political polarization and enhance well-being on campus.
Build campus-community ties and integrate voter education in your classroom.
Summits focus on region-specific or affinity-specific concerns, issues, and debates. They are designed for faculty, staff and administrators to discuss common challenges, explore opportunities to collaborate on voting issue guides, and share resources and best practices, specific to their region.
Summits will be arranged in in the fall dependent on interest and topic.
Register your interest.
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The ADP community connects to discuss AASCU’s Leading for Democracy initiative.
Discuss the 2024 global elections with the ADP community.
Discuss thorny issues and gain perspective from colleagues, journalists, and business leaders.
At this critical juncture in the nation’s history, we invite all AASCU member institutions to commit to the American Democracy Project.
Make your commitment.For over 20 years, AASCU’s non-partisan American Democracy Project (ADP) has engaged thousands of campus leaders, faculty, staff, and students in a broad network of regional public universities to instill all students with knowledge and skills, preparing them to be informed and engaged global citizens, empowered to create a more just society and world.
At this critical juncture in the nation’s history, we invite all AASCU member institutions to commit to the American Democracy Project.
ADP campuses are committed to the nonpartisan project of preparing students who are ready to participate and lead effectively as global citizens in a multicultural society. They model open, democratic engagement on important issues from multiple perspectives for the communities and regions that they serve. ADP institutions foster an ethos of civic-mindedness throughout the institution; make civic learning and democratic engagement an expectation for every student; practice civic inquiry across the curriculum; and advance civic action through democratic processes and practices.*
*Based on the key recommendations for higher education in A Crucible Moment: College Learning & Democracy’s Future (AAC&U, 2012).
Students, faculty, staff, and administrators shared their experiences with ADP at the Civic Learning & Democratic Engagement Meeting in June 2023.
Watch playlist.We celebrate the institutions who have already committed to AASCU’s American Democracy Project.
Confirmed committments.If your institution has not yet committed, we invite you to encourage your president/chancellor or provost to do so via this form.
Make your commitment.We recognize that this work requires thoughtful conversation, so please reach out to Cathy Copeland, director of ADP, with any concerns.
Contact us.At this critical juncture in history, we invite all AASCU member institutions to commit to AASCU’s American Democracy Project
to prepare students to be engaged global citizens in a multicultural society and world.
My institution will identify an ADP liaison and participate in regular assessment of civic engagement impact. As an American Democracy Project campus, my institution will have access to:
The New York Times salutes The American Association of State Colleges and Universities on the completion of the first year of the American Democracy Project for Civic Engagement See ad.
We thank our partners for their continued work to strengthen democracy by providing the following resources.
An opportunity to highlight and celebrate the benefits of international education and exchange.
A new cohort working to improve course scheduling and increase retention and time to completion.
Share knowledge and develop a sense of community around civic learning and democratic engagement.