Full Description
Students, Campus, and Democracy: Approaches to Civic Learning and Engagement in Higher Education and Student Affairs brings together scholars and practitioners to examine how higher education institutions and student affairs divisions can center civic learning and democratic education across the full range of campus life. Moving beyond individual programs, the book makes the case that civic learning flourishes when it is embedded as an integrated institutional strategy—one that cultivates a campus-wide culture of meaningful civic learning outcomes and dispositions.
Organized in three parts, the book progresses from conceptual foundations to professional staff capacity-building to practical implementation examples. The chapters explore how campus environments shape students' civic identity development, how practitioners can build the skills and frameworks needed to facilitate democratic learning, and how civic engagement can be knitted into higher education learning contexts including honors courses, fraternity and sorority life, service-learning, leadership development programs, residential living-learning communities, and more. Together, they offer adaptable frameworks, original research, and practitioner insights that translate across institutional types and contexts. The book's animating conviction is that when democratic education is woven into the fabric of an institution, higher education can deliver on its longstanding promise to prepare students not only for careers but for the work of sustaining democracy.
Contents
Part I. The Civic Campus as Concept and Structure
Chapter 1. Situating Civic Learning in Higher Education and Student Affairs; Maximilian T. Schuster
Chapter 2. Building a Campus-Wide Ecosystem for Developing an Institutional Strategy for Student Civic Learning and Development in Higher Education; Jessica Mann
Chapter 3. Developing Civic Identities: What Student Affairs Educators Can Learn from a Longitudinal Study of Graduates' Post-College Lives; Matthew Johnson
Part II. Developing Civic Capacity for Staff
Chapter 4. The Relationship Framework: Supporting Professionals for Critical Place-Based Partnership Work; Justin P. Dandoy
Chapter 5. From Resources to Action: Democratic Learning, Campus Resources, and Professional Paths Forward; Glen Edward and Maximilian T. Schuster
Part III. Civic Learning and Engagement in Campus Practice
Chapter 6. A Course-Based Approach to Preparing Honors Students for Community Engagement; Andrew Pearl, Megan Snider Bailey, Daniela Susnara, and W. Ross Bryan
Chapter 7. Cornerstones and Champions: How Civility Education and Cross-Unit Collaboration Can Advance Civic Learning in Higher Education; William N. Hargrove, Jennifer W. Purcell, Jennifer B. Wells, and Karen Boettler
Chapter 8. Fraternities, Sororities, and the Power of Civic Action; Vivienne Felix, Eric Norman, Spencer Long, Gary Pike, and Stevan Veldkamp
Chapter 9. Pathways to Purpose: Civic Leadership Development through Student Affairs Programs; Jessica Davis and Michael Rackett
Chapter 10. Conclusion: Building Campuses for Students and Democracy; Maximilian T. Schuster
