The 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.
Democracy at Risk 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, 2008
- Donald P. Green, Yale University
- Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, Bloomington
Term expiring August 31, 2009
- Elizabeth Beaumont, University of Minnesota
- Larry W. Chappell, Mississippi Valley State University
Term expiring August 31, 2010
- Allison Calhoun-Brown, Georgia State University
- S. Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside