Category: Friends of TDC News
Deadline extended for TDC campuses to join CIRCLE’s National Study on Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE)
Back in January we shared information on this blog about CIRCLE’s new National Study on Learning, Voting and Engagement (NSLVE) in this blog post. A number of TDC campuses have since signed up to participate in this free study (no survey completion required). The deadline to participate is March 15, but TDC campuses are being [...]
Read More...A NEW LEADERSHIP LEGACY: Igniting a National Movement for Student Leadership & Engagement at Community Colleges
The Rappaport Family Foundation is a major donor and partner of The Democracy Commitment. Not only are we incredibly grateful for their support both financially and operationally, we are also very proud to announce their most recent publication, A New Leadership Legacy. The following is a summary about their publication, highlighting many nonprofits they fund-including [...]
Read More...Carnegie Invites Institutions to Apply for 2015 Community Engagement Classification
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching invites colleges and universities with an institutional focus on community engagement to apply for the elective classification, first developed and offered in 2006 as part of an extensive restructuring of the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The elective Community Engagement Classification provides a way for institutions to [...]
Read More...Fifth Annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies (free!), held at Tufts University
The fifth annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies will be an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary seminar bringing together advanced graduate students, faculty, and practitioners from diverse fields of study. Organized by Peter Levine, Tisch College, and Karol Sołtan, University of Maryland, the Summer Institute features guest seminars by distinguished colleagues from various institutions and engages participants [...]
Read More...CIRCLE and the National Study on Learning, Voting, and Engagement
With the election is over, we’re looking ahead. The Democracy Commitment with the American Democracy are already discussing how we’re going to support student political knowledge and engagement. We’re excited to share with campuses a new project that offers colleges and universities the chance to measure student registration and voting rates and to study the [...]
Read More...The Education Department Wants to Hear From You!
For the original posting by the Department of Education blog, please click here. . . . . . . The Education Department Wants to Hear From You! Posted on October 1, 2012 by Guest Blogger (for the Department of Education) BACKGROUND: At a White House event this past January, the Obama Administration released its Road [...]
Read More...Timothy Eatman and Scott Peters named Imagining America co-directors
August 13, 2012 Jamie Haft (315) 443-8765 Syracuse University and Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA) announce the appointments of Timothy K. Eatman and Scott J. Peters as IA co-directors, effective Aug. 1. “With Eatman and Peters as directors, IA will continue to advance the movement for engaged scholarship in higher education,” [...]
Read More...Pennsylvania & Voter ID Changes: A message from the Fair Elections Legal Network
This November will be an exciting time on Pennsylvania college campuses. Students will vote-many for the first time-in a pivotal election. Unfortunately, Pennsylvania’s new voter ID law will make it more difficult for many of your students to exercise their democratic rights. We are writing to ask you to protect your students’ right to vote [...]
Read More...TDC Partner Campus Vote Project Announces Video Contest on Student Voting
Today, the Campus Vote Project (CVP), a campaign of the Fair Elections Legal Network, is launching a contest to encourage students and student organizations to send in videos to Campus Vote Project that highlight barriers to voting that students face on their campus, strategies for overcoming them, or why students care about the upcoming election. [...]
Read More...Ami Dar, Founder of Idealist.org to give Opening Keynote at #TDC12
Ami Dar is the founder and executive director of Idealist.org. Ami was born in Jerusalem, grew up in Peru and in Mexico, and lives in New York. The 2012 ADP/TDC national meeting, “Civic Engagement 2.0: Re-Imagining, Strengthening and Deepening Our Civic Work will open with a plenary session featuring Ami Dar. In a talk entitled “Closing [...]
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