Civic Engagement

Civic engagement has become an essential learning goal for institutions throughout higher education. AAC&U believes that recent educational innovations to advance civic engagement, such as thematically linked learning communities, community-based research, collaborative projects, service-learning, mentored internships, reflective experiential learning and study abroad are all helping students advance on this essential learning goal.

AAC&U works with campuses to develop curricular and cocurricular programs that help faculty and students connect scholarship to public questions, consider alternative frameworks for judgment and action, draw meaning from experience, critique theory in light of practice, and evaluate practice in light of new knowledge. AAC&U seeks to prepare today's students to become effective global and local citizens as they venture into an unequal but interdependent and diverse world.

For additional information, please see Global Learning and Diversity, and Women.

Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global initiatives (musil@aacu.org)

Lucia Cruz, Administrative Assistant, Office of Diversity, Equity, and Global initiatives (cruz@aacu.org)