VOLUME 5, ISSUE 2
Research
Student Political Engagement in the Co-Curriculum: Understanding the Role of Senior Student Affairs Officers
Demetri L. Morgan, Cecilia M. Orphan
How the socialization of senior student affairs officers (SSAO) influences approaches to student civic/political development
The Evolving Role of Higher Education in U.S. Democracy
Nancy Thomas, Jodi Benenson
Colleges and universities serve two distinct but complementary purposes with respect to student development: academics educate students for individual prosperity and well-being and for public participation in democracy and civic life
New Resources for Civic Engagement: The National Survey of Student Leaders and the Consortium for Inter-Campus SoTL Research
J. Cherie Strachan, Elizabeth A. Bennion
Findings from the first wave of the NSSL, while increasing familiarity with the type of campus-level data available from this new assessment tool
Teaching Deliberative Democracy Deliberatively
Timothy J. Shaffer
University faculty can create courses that explore deliberative democracy theory and practice while also making the structure of the course deliberative and participatory for undergraduate students
Implementing the Political Engagement Project in an Introductory Communication Course: An Examination of the Effects on Students’ Political Knowledge, Efficacy, Skills, Behavior, and Ideology
Stephen K. Hunt, Kevin R. Meyer, John F. Hooker, Cheri J. Simonds, Lance R. Lippert
Students in PEP sections of an introductory communication course show significantly larger pre- to posttest gains on virtually all of the measures
Reimagining Civic Education in our Colleges and Universities: The Influence of Deliberation on Students Perceptions of Political Participation
Windy Y. Lawrence, John J. Theis
The skills of public dialogue and deliberation are critical for civic engagement programs in higher education because they provide students with the knowledge necessary for addressing wicked problems in our democracy
Addressing Political Inequality by Restoring the Civic Mission of Higher Education
Abraham Goldberg
Embedding political learning into the entire undergraduate experience satisfies the civic mission of higher education
The American Electoral Process: A Never-ending “Teachable Moment”
Elizabeth Christine Matto
How educators can integrate evidence-based pedagogical techniques into their coursework and make the most of the election as a “teachable moment”
Community Colleges and Educating for Democracy
Carrie B. Kisker, John J. Theis, Alberto R. Olivas
Deliberation is a critical approach to educating for democracy, and represents a way to redirect civic initiatives away from a focus on the problems in democracy to the problems of democracy
Student activism, institutional amnesia and power: Lessons from the #fordhall2015 Brandeis student protests
Callie Watkins Liu
Institutional amnesia and narrative reconstruction are structural strategies to resist social change and maintain power in the face of social protest
Memories of College Activism in an Undocumented Student Support Group
Matias N Ramos
How students around the country took part of a movement that led to executive changes to federal immigration policy
Tell Your Story
In memoriam: Marc Cooper Dedication
Andrew P Lokie
It is with great sadness that we tell you that on August 17, 2016, we lost our
colleague and friend Dr. Marc Cooper