Civic Engagement Initiative

In the article named “Civic Education and Political Participation”. At beginning the author said that he found the people who engagement civic significantly decline especially young people , and today’s young people believed in America’s principle and in America dream. They are patriotic, tolerant and compassionate. And they said they want to volunteer during college. But they always characterize their volunteering as an alternative to official political. They have limit knowledge of government’s impact, either on themselves or on those they seek to assist. Then he found that the solidarity organizations that dominated the U.S. landscape have weakened and the principle of individual choice has emerged as our central value. So he came to focus about the civic education. The most failure of civic education is that we have made a major

I had the pleasure to volunteer with Adopt a Rescue Pet with the most wonderful and passionate people for my civic engagement project. I also had the opportunity to work with the founder of the organization Elizabeth Davis Rubin. Not only did I had the chance to work with Elizabeth, but she also gave me the opportunity to come to her office to talk to her about the organization. I learn many things from this project, I got to see the behind the scenes of an organization and all the challenges they come across. On this small journey I also learn about the opportunities some employers give to their employees. After a casual conversation with my manager to request a Saturday off to be able to volunteer, he mentions The Suited for Service Program. Any employers that work with the Suited

The message emerging from a recent research series on youth civic and political participation is clear: today's youth are not disjoined from associational and small political life, but they are increasingly disenchanted with formal political institutions and practices. Children and youth under 18 have made sententious strides in recent years toward fuller involvement in democratic processes. These strides,

Paul Loeb is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times. In 2008 Loeb founded the Campus Election Engagement Project, a national nonpartisan student engagement effort that helped 500 colleges and universities engage their students in the election. Paul Rogat Loeb has spent thirty-five years researching and writing about citizen responsibility and empowerment. This book, more so a handbook, enables anyone who desires to make a change in the environment around them, leading them to get involved in larger communities. The book acknowledges that “it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and to become

When deciding what topic I wanted to write for my Civic Engagement Project, I already had in mind that I wanted something that most of us are not use to seeing nowadays. Many of us compare courts with punishment, but what if there was a court that did the opposite? When I was starting my research on the different courts we have here in Florida, I came across Drug Courts. The more I read up on drug courts, the more I became fascinated and intrigued. Drug courts do not aim to "PUNISH”, but yet to provide treatment to drug abusers. This kind of court believes that everyone deserves a second chance, that extra push. During my research, I was interested in learning a few things. Such things I 'd like to learn about this kind of

Citizenship includes not only legal definitions or documents (whether they have them or not), but also the vernacular elements of citizenship that we recognize in social setting, such as ordinary language phrases, which acknowledge levels of citizenship, such as first-class versus second-class citizenship. In a democratic nation like America, the goal is to minimize second-class citizenship and have to first-class citizenship be available for all. This idea reaffirms that citizenship happens both in the relationships between citizens and the state and in the relationship among fellow citizens, whether they be in neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, or workplaces. These questions of citizenship include a sense of belonging, and of having a voice and being able to use it.

Civic Engagement is a necessary focus that many young adults overlook. It is about learning and knowing how to fight for one’s belief or a noble cause, and trying to bring about change to a social or political condition (Parisella, 2013). The Washington Center’s Civic Engagement Framework required some components such as attending two modules that addressed issues of public concern and strategies for citizen participation, a public policy dialogue, and direct service. The first two served as an educational purpose to teach students how to get involved and finally the direct service allowed the opportunity for students to take action and volunteer. Therefore, I wanted my civic engagement to relate to the hazardous things that humans are exposed

For a few days after I moved to DC, I wondered what actions I can do to illustrate the concept of “civic engagement.” I thought it was a broad term, maybe because I was not familiar with the American term. However, when I took the time to look over the exceptional amount of things I learned and done in Washington DC, it was easy to write this paper.

Civic involvement and citizenship are common terms used interchangeably in order to describe individual responsibility in society. However, upon further evaluation, both words address different aspects of society itself. Citizenship can be understood as certain obligations, liberties, and privileges embodied by an individual; and civic involvement is the activities associated with those responsibilities. The following definition summarizes the broader scope of citizenship and civic involvement assumed in A Short History of Progress by Ronald Wright. In this book, Wright describes the progress of citizenship, and the perception that mankind gradually improves over time.

American youth, the demographic most important to America’s future, are often excluded from political processes and omitted from election ballots in just about every way. It is my mission as a Junior Statesman and a high school student to break this substandard negative trend, which tarnishes American democracy, by encouraging youth to become more politically active.

Regarding the Stanford Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement survey, I have mixed feelings. Although I agree with my results and have minimal difficulty in making sense of my results, I feel that the information is not in-depth enough to truly be extremely helpful.

Since the 1990s, service-learning and volunteerism have become pervasive throughout higher education. Many campuses now have a center for civic engagement and have hired service-learning coordinators. Large organizations and initiatives have dedicated themselves to promoting and enhancing engagement research and practices. We even have engaged campus awards and designations at the national and state level. Civic engagement is a professional field of study and practice and it is our best hope for bringing in a discussion about sense of community.

The data I will be analyzing comes from the United States Citizenship, Involvement (CID) Survey conducted in 2006. The survey was produced by Georgetown University’s Center for Democracy and Civil Society (CDACS) with an aim at illustrating “American civic engagement in comparative perspective” (Howard, Gibson, & Stolle, 2006, p.3).

Civic engagement should be a consistent activity within the African American community. It is simply ignorant to say, “civic engagement is not my responsibility.” As a country we all depend on each other to achieve our set destiny. As Dr. King suggested, we must come together and establish unity because “We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.” Civic engagement has the power to reclaim and establish the identity of the African American community. The African proverb, “I am because we are and since we are therefore I am complete,” advises the community to form relationships. No one person is in the world alone, but instead everyone is in this together. These ideas urge my civic engagement because there is too much divide in the community. Human beings are interrelated, and when the African American community is bridged together the nation will benefit as a collective.

Today, only eight states require that civics be taught at all. In 2013, the National Assessment of Education Progress suspended the civics portion of its exam, after reporting years of dismal student scores (Campaign For The Civic Mission of School). Civics wasn’t always so widely disregarded; past education pioneers, from the “settlement house” leaders in the late 1800s to John Dewey in the 20th century, believed the main goal of school was to prepare the next generation of citizens to actively engage in the participation of democracy (Lander, 2015). Now more than ever the active role of citizenship is needed and many believe it is lacking more.