The Civic Engagement Imperative: Student Learning and the Public Good

Network for Academic Renewal Conference

November 10–12, 2005
Providence, Rhode Island

“The Civic Engagement Imperative: Student Learning and the Public Good” brings together faculty, student affairs educators, academic administrators, students, and community leaders to examine current definitions of and outcomes for civic engagement and explore new research, scholarship, and collaborations for civic engagement programs.

“The Civic Engagement Imperative” will examine the role of college in nurturing a sense of students’ social responsibility and helping them connect their educational goals and future well-being to the quality and values of the local and global communities in which they live and work.

Keynote Address
Civic Engagement in a Divided World: Finding Common Ground

• James A. Joseph, Professor of the Practice of Public Policy Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University

The conference is designed in collaboration with the Center for Liberal Education and Civic Engagement, a partnership founded in 2003 between AAC&U and Campus Compact.

For more information please visit www.aacu.org/meetings/civic_engagement.