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Campus
Profiles This section will provide a profile of each of the
campus’s Civic Engagement Minor/Certificate program,
including its unique or innovative elements, structure, placement
in the institution’s governance, program objectives,
courses, and relationships to the institution’s core
mission and other programs.
Colorado
College
Offers a course called, "In Our Backyard: Social Justice
in the Southwest" where students enroll in a yearlong
extended format course where they live together. As a group,
they acquire civic skills, develop methods of self-governance,
and engage in their local and regional communities through
service learning projects... (more)
Concord
College
The academic liberal arts foundation makes the certificate
program attainable by all students who have a commitment to
community service. At the completion of the curriculum requirements,
the student’s transcript will be noted with their accomplishment..(more)
Lynchburg
College
Significant emphasis on developing community-based research
skills and knowledge of public policy is woven into the required
courses. ..(more)
Mars
Hill College
Is a small private college serving 1,177 undergraduates in
Mars Hill, a town near Asheville, NC which is working on a
co-curricular certificate program in civic engagement. LifeWorks
facilitates is a six-semester civic leadership program, with
each semester having particular desired outcomes related to
a knowledge base, skill set, and core values commitment. The
leadership program is for any student interested in strengthening
leadership...(more)
Morehouse
College
Portland
State University
Is a large public university serving 21,000 students in Portland,
OR, which has approved a Minor in Civic Leadership. PSU’s
Minor in Civic Leadership is an example of an academic option
that provides students who are already involved in service-learning
based institutions specific programmatic elements that specialize
in civic leadership. The minor is intended to create a curricular
focus for students who have a broad general interest...(more)
Rutgers
University
Explores women's leadership and contributions to social change
in contexts that range from the New Jersey Legislature to
domestic violence shelters; from medical research labs to
human rights organizations; from corporate boardrooms to the
urban classroom; and from family dining tables to legal clinics...(more)
St.
Mary's College
The College
of New Jersey
Is a medium-sized private institution
serving 5,700 undergraduates in Ewing, close to Trenton, NJ,
which is working to develop a Leadership Minor with a significant
civic component. (more)
University
of Alaska Anchorage
The Certificate in Civic Engagement
prepares undergraduates to become active, effective, ethical
citizens in their professional and personal lives. Baccalaureate
students from any major degree program develop the reflective,
analytic, and practical skills to link curricular and co-curricular
learning to civic engagement outside the academy through service-learning
classes, internships, and community-engaged scholarship and
creative activity...(more)
University
of California Los Angeles
Is a large public university serving
36,000 students in Los Angeles, CA, which has approved a Minor
in Civic Engagement in which students take one lower-division
course, an upper-division core course in Political Science,
and then have the option of being civically engaged at the
local, state or national level...(more)
Wagner
University
Washington
& Lee University
Is a private liberal arts institution
serving 1,755 undergraduates, which has approved a Minor in
the Study of Poverty and Human Capability. The program is
unique in its curricular and co-curricular focus. Program
components include: transcript recognition, interdisciplinary
academic instruction; discipline-based courses; academic focus
complemented by co curricular opportunities; student run organizational
support; student leadership opportunities & focus on vocation;
directed by a senior tenured faculty member; full-time summer
internships for student to work with non-profits and...(more)
West
Chester University
The central element of the Honors Program
is its curricular focus on personal leadership development
and community service that appears on students’ transcripts
and allows them to be recognized at commencement. The core
of cross-disciplinary writing intensive courses that are reflective
of a liberal arts education and often team taught, fulfills
the general education requirements for this distinctive cohort
of academically gifted students...(more)
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