Civic Engagement can be found on the Alliance 4 Public Service website at: http://publicservice.newark.rutgers.edu

This online resource contains service-learning news, research, and events.

In conjunction with community partners, service-learning practitioners will strive to build upon the positive attributes of the rural culture while mitigating the negative factors. Rural Service Learning can involve studies, service, co-operative programs and projects, and policy development. In the process, students will develop their potential as future engaged citizens.

The National Scholarship Providers Association (NSPA) is the only national organization dedicated solely to supporting the needs of professionals administering scholarships in colleges and universities, financial aid offices, nonprofit organizations, community foundations, and large corporate foundations.

Their Mission: to advance the collective impact of scholarship providers, and the scholarships they award, through exchanging best practices, offering professional development opportunities, and promoting student access and success in higher education.

Findings from a survey of the members of The Research Universities Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) prepared by Liz Holllander, Senior Fellow, Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts in the fall 2009. This report provides a snapshot of how 15 members of TRUCEN approach the civic education of undergraduates. It maps current practice and frames an agenda for continuing dialogue and action. The survey confirms that a growing number of research universities are being creative and assertive in expanding their civic engagement efforts. It also suggests that there is ample room to extend and improve their efforts, and it frames an agenda for continued dialogue and action toward that end.

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As part of a broad effort to foster stronger youth dialogue on the workings of representative democracy, The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) and its Trust for Representative Democracy, with the Alliance for Representative Democracy, is launching a new national public service campaign entitled Am I Missing Something?

The campaign features students tackling misconceptions about representative democracy by enumerating the benefits of participation, illustrating how complex issues require compromise, and discovering why diverse interests all having a voice in the democratic process is important. Am I Missing Something? is part of a larger campaign geared toward engaging the emerging generation in a dialogue about the workings of representative democracy.  

Campus Compact’s guide to legislation affecting student loan forgiveness, including descriptions of key provisions, FAQs, and tips for making the most of the new loan forgiveness programs.

The site is part of a multifaceted effort at WSU to help people in developing nations help themselves.

The journal’s readership includes 12,000 New England “opinion leaders,” including governors and their staffs; state legislators; members of Congress; mayors; corporate CEOs; foundation executives; college presidents and deans; school superintendents; high school guidance directors; editors and reporters; and leaders of regional and national education associations, business groups and think tanks.