Civic Engagement Toolkit: Integrating Civic / Civil Learning across the Curriculum

Goldman, G. T., Ivey, C. E., Garcia-Menendez, F., & Balachandran, S. (2021).
Beyond the Lab: Early Career Researchers May Find Purpose through Policy, Advocacy, and Public Engagement. Environmental Science & Technology, 55(5), 2720–2721.

Yin, Y., Gao, J., Jones, B. F., & Wang, D. (2021). Coevolution of policy and science during the pandemic. Science (New York, N.Y.), 371(6525), 128–130.

Servick, K. (2020). Speaking science to power. Science (New York, N.Y.), 369(6509), 1282–1283.

"Supported by a grant from the Endeavor Foundation, this issue of Peer Review [Fall 2017, Vol.19, No.4] highlights different departmental and disciplinary designs that incorporate learning for civic and social responsibility into the requirements and pedagogy of a student’s major and specialized programs that integrate civic learning and social responsibility as an outcome for all their majors."

The Association of American Colleges & Universities (AAC&U), has a rubric for the Valid Assessment of Learning in Undergraduate Education, specifically for Civic Engagement.

Citizen Literacy, created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze for University of Louisville Libraries, is an online toolkit that promotes the development of key information skills for democratic citizenship and features short videos, handouts, and activities.

"Be A Fact-Checker: Lateral Reading" is one of the video tutorials at 'Citizen Literacy,' created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze for University of Louisville Libraries

This article discusses Project Pericles' Civic Engagement Course Program.

"From 2007-2009, Project Pericles provided matching grants to fund 44 Civic Engagement Courses (CECs) at 16 Periclean colleges and universities "

"Notable examples of the increasing attention that is being given to engagement include the Tisch College for Active Citizenship at Tufts University, the mandatory service requirement for all undergraduates at Tulane University, and the creation of DukeEngage at Duke University. This article contextualizes the creation and implementation of the last of these programs in the broader civic-engagement movement in American higher education, .."

“Civil Discourse in the Age of Social Media.” About Campus. Sept-Oct: 12-18.

Teaching civic engagement: From student to active citizen. Washington, DC: American Political Science Association.

Civic Prompts: Making Civic Learning Routine across the Disciplines. Washington, D.C. American Association of Colleges & Universities.

Civic learning and engagement: A review of the literature on civic learning, assessment and instruments. Prepared by the Research Institute for Studies in Education (RISE) and commissioned by the Civic Learning Task Force of the AAC&U and the AASCU.

This Civic Education Toolkit is intended to help stakeholders from all three branches of government, as well as other members of the civic education community in their mission to improve state civic education.

CIRCLE (Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning and Engagement), has created a tool to explore the relationships between social indicators and civic participation.