NACE : Resources : Higher Education

NACE was launched in 2000 with more than 80 group and individual charter members committed to advancing civic knowledge and engagement. NACE believes the time has come to band together to ensure that the next generation of citizens understands and values democracy and participates in the ongoing work of building democracy in America.

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NACE Task Forces

Liasion To Group Members: Susan Griffin (Chair); Public Support and Advocacy: Ed O'Brien (Chair); Research and Outcomes Evaluation: Judith Torney-Purta (Chair) Find out more ->

Virginia Chanley, Irasema Coronado, and Ashley Woodiwiss, "Universities as Sites of Citizenship and Civic Responsibility: A Report of the Pilot Phase of the Research" (on Wheaton College, Florida International University, and the University of Texas El Paso), in The Political Psychologist, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2002), pp. 2-18.

College Students Talk Politics. Prepared for the Kettering Foundation by the Harwood Group. Dayton, OH: The Kettering Foundation, 1993.

Higher Education Research Institute. The American Freshman: Thirty Year Trends, 2002.

Higher Education Research Institute. 2000 Annual Freshman Survey: Looking Inward, Freshmen Care Less About Politics and More About Money. Chronicle of Higher Education. 22 January, 2001.

The Institute of Politics, Harvard University. "Attitudes Toward Politics and Public Service: A National Survey of College and University Undergraduates." HPR Online, Harvard Political Review, Summer 2000.

Levine, Arthur and Jeanette S. Cureton. When Hope and Fear Collide: A Portrait of Todays College Student. The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1998.

Peter D. Hart Research Associates. "Making a Difference Not a Statement: College Students and Politics, Volunteering, and an Agenda for America." Panetta Institute. April 2001.

Sax, L.J., Astin, A.W., Korn, W.S. & Mahoney, K.M. "The American Freshman: National Norms for Fall 1999." Higher Education Research Institute, UCLA. Los Angeles, CA.

Campus Compact

National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) an institutional membership organization that exists to promote excellence in public service education.

Boyte, H. and E. Hollander. The Wingspread Declaration on the Civic Responsibilities of Research Universities. Campus Compact, 2001.