Committee on Civic Education & Engagement

The APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement focuses on the contributions that higher education, and political sciences in higher education institutions, are making or could make to enhancing the quantity and quality of civic engagement among young Americans.

Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It

As a result of a project initially organized and sponsored by the APSA committee on civic education and engagement, Brookings Institution Press published (2005) Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It, which examines the trend toward civic disengagement, locates the sources of civic debility in the United States, and provides an agenda for reform and rehabilitation. More on Democracy at Risk

Civic Education on APSAnet.org

See the civic education section for resources on civic education and engagement in precollege education as well as in higher education.

Civic Education and Engagement Committee Members:

Term expiring August 31, 2012

Hahrie C. Han, RWJ Fellow, Harvard/Wellesley College

Megan Mullin, Temple University

Term expiring August 31, 2013

Archon Fung, Harvard University

Elizabeth Theiss Smith, University of South Dakota, Chair

Term expiring August 31, 2014

Scott Abernathy, University of Minnesota

Lorraine M. McDonnell, University of California, Santa Barbara