Tag: higher education
Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Elective Classification webinar
Carnegie Foundation Community Engagement Elective Classification webinar Wednesday, February 20 @ 11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST The Carnegie Foundation announced the availability of the 2015 Community Engagement Classification application last week. In an effort to help all of our colleges have the best chance of putting together a successful [...]
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...Michigan Student Convention at Henry Ford Community College
On Friday, October 12th, community college students from all over Michigan gathered at Henry Ford Community College, a TDC member institution, to participate in the 9th annual Michigan Student Convention 2012, sponsored by HFCC and the League of Women Voters. The day started at 8:30am with some students being assigned to caucus rooms to lead [...]
Read More...TDC National Coordinator, Amee Bearne, in AAC&U “Diversity & Democracy” periodical
Toolbox of a Citizen By Amee Bearne, National Coordinator for The Democracy Commitment I remember thinking when I was seven, “The president of the United States was seven once. If he can be president, so can I.” Lofty notions for a girl growing up in poor, rural Washington State with little access to the world [...]
Read More...Co-founder of The Democracy Commitment, Bernie Ronan, writes about TDC, and “Community Colleges and the Work Of Democracy.”
Community Colleges and the Work Of Democracy Article by Bernie Ronan (For original article source, please visit: http://kettering.org/periodicals/community-colleges-democracy/) ***** A Time of Crisis: This phrase served as the title of a crucial section in the historic 1947 Truman Commission Report, Higher Education for Democracy, which framed how higher education should respond to the education crisis [...]
Read More...Your Vote Counts!: Mount Wachusett Student Voter Registration Drive
TDC member Mount Wachusett Community College of Gardner, Massachusetts is making sure their students know that every vote counts! Below are three of the First Year Experience (FYE) students whose self-designed service learning project was to hold a voter registration drive. The whole class researched the Global Challenges (formally known as “7 Revs”) through The [...]
Read More...CAMPUS SPOTLIGHT: Heartland Community College
The youngest community college in Illinois, Heartland Community College was founded in 1990. The public, two-year open admissions college is an affordable resource for higher education, focusing on student success.* In the words of Heartland Community College President, Allen Goben, HCC is committed to “giv[ing] continued support to the cause of furthering democratic education and [...]
Read More...SPOTLIGHT CAMPUS: Engaged at Allegany College of Maryland
The Democracy Commitment is proud to announce the many TDC events going on at Allegany College of Maryland. TDC Campus Coordinator and Chair of Behavioral and Social Sciences Kurt Hoffman ran full speed ahead to launch democracy-promoting events at the three-campus school. Not only has Allegany College held events surrounding international democracy issues in Uganda [...]
Read More...TDC New Official Partnership with Street Law
The Democracy Commitment is proud to be an official partner of Street Law, Inc. Street Law is practical law- the law you need to know in your everyday life on the streets and in the communities where you live. The Street Law organization has developed educational programs that teach people about law, democracy and human [...]
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