TDC National Calendar
Events that Advance Democracy and Civic Engagement
a. Members have exclusive opportunities to participate in national, regional, and campus events creating an interconnected web of students, campuses, and communities committed to democracy. Members institutions become “stewards of place” aimed at revitalizing democracy in the communities in which they are based and from which their students come.
September 11
September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance
The September 11th National Day of Service and Remembrance is the culmination of efforts originally launched in 2002 by the nonprofit 9/11 Day with wide support by the 9/11 community and leading national service organizations.Read more
September 14
The 17th International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement Annual Conference
The annual IARSLCE conference is scholarly venue to disseminate new knowledge on service-learning and community engagement.Read more
September 17
Constitution and Citizenship Day
Constitution Day commemorates the formation and signing of the U.S. Constitution by thirty-nine brave men on September 17, 1787, recognizing all who, are born in the U.S. or by naturalization, have become citizens.Read more
September 22
2017 Street Law Community College Faculty Development Seminar
Street Law, Inc.—in collaboration with the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, the ABA Division for Public Education, and The Democracy Commitment—is offering a faculty development seminar for community college professors who are interested in developing a law-based civics program at their colleges. The program involves innovative classroom instruction and community-based learning.Read more
September 26
National Voter Registration Day
National Voter Registration Day is a national holiday celebrating our democracy. It was first observed in 2012 and has been growing in popularity every year since. Held on the fourth Tuesday of September, National Voter Registration Day will be observed on Tuesday, September 26th this year. Read more 
October 5
Inaugural California Community Colleges Civic Engagement Summit
The two-day event will seek to foster a shared understanding of non-partisan civic engagement across the California Community Colleges. Conference strands will address strategies to increase voter participation, civic knowledge, and community volunteerism.Read more
October 12
Imaging America Annual National Conference
The members of Imagining America advance a vision of the world in which publicly engaged artists, designers, scholars, students and culture workers play critical roles in enacting the promise and ideals of a democratic society.Read more
October 20
ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge Awards Ceremony
The ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge works towards making democratic engagement a defining feature on college campuses. They currently have 570 campuses signed up! Now is the time to recognize these campuses for the great work they are doing in increasing student voting and making democratic participation core values on their campuses.Read more
October 19
2017 Annual Conference on Citizenship
Join national civic health network partners and other individuals and organizations in taking an honest look at challenges facing our nation and our communities today—from a dearth of civic learning, to the raging opiate epidemic, to the persistent opportunity gap confronting our nation’s youth.Read more
October 24
SUNY Applied Learning Conference
The theme of the Fourth Annual Applied Learning Conference will be taking effective Applied Learning to scale and sustaining it. Campuses and universities across the nation are working to better understand the positive impacts of high-quality applied learning experiences on students, but what becomes the responsibility of higher education institutions when these experiences prove to enhance the student learning outcomes? How can we engage specific student populations to make these experiences accessible to all?Read more
November 10
TDC Immersive Civic Learning Institute
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 also features civic skill building embedded in the games.Read more
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