College Students and Civic Engagement: Key Steps and Best Practices

Civic Engagement helps your students make a difference

Nowhere is there a greater concentration of potential energy and interest in social involvement than on college and university campuses. The national average participation for service learning programs in higher education is 35% and students who participate contribute, on average, 3.7 hours per week. Many students actively seek opportunities to “make a difference,” and a growing number of colleges and universities have developed civic engagement initiatives. The challenge is making sure these programs don’t fall flat due to lack of momentum or poor planning.

The Magna white paper, College Students and Civic Engagement: Key Steps and Best Practices, shows you how to turn student attitudes into action, and increase the success of your campus civic engagement programs. You’ll learn:

• What civic engagement is and why it matters
• How best-practice institutions have deployed and managed their programs
• The value of embedding civic engagement into ongoing programs and courses
• The steps required to launch a civic engagement initiative on your campus
• Advice for encouraging faculty to embed civic engagement in their classes
• Recommendations for making civic engagement a part of everyday student affairs practice

Bonus Civic Engagement Checklist

You also receive a checklist for assessment of the current state of civic engagement on your campus and sample student learning outcomes.

College Students and Civic Engagement: Key Steps and Best Practices: A Magna Publications White Paper is based on a Magna Online Seminar originally delivered by Barbara Jacoby,  Faculty Associate for Leadership and Community Service-Learning, University of Maryland, College Park.

Through this white paper, you learn how to:

1. Agree on how the campus will define and refer to civic engagement
2. Align civic engagement with other institutional priorities
3. Embed civic engagement in key campus documents, including institutional missions, goals, strategic plans, and base budgets
4. Form a coalition
5. Understand that there are a range of civic engagement practices, so there’s at least one that will suit your resource level
6. Assess outcomes to improve your efforts and demonstrate their effectiveness

Cost

You can download the PDF of this white paper here online, or get the print version mailed to you.

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