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March 15, 2006
higher education: civic mission & civic effects
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and CIRCLE today released a consensus report entitled "Higher Education: Civic Mission & Civic Effects." The report was jointly written by 22 scholars representing the fields of political science, developmental pyschology, sociology, economics, philosophy, research on higher education, and women's studies. The scholars met last fall in a conference that we jointly organized with our friends at the Carnegie Foundation. I then managed the drafting-and-revising process that led to the new report. It does the following:
emphasizes that colleges and universities have a civic purpose explores profound changes in the civic mission of universities since 1900 examines that somewhat ambiguous evidence about the effects of college attendance on students' civic knowledge and behavior recommends certain approaches to teaching civic education at the college level discusses some obstacles to civic education, and outlines an agenda for further research
March 15, 2006 3:02 PM | category: advocating civic education | Comments