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The Impact Of Campus Culture On Undergraduate Civic Engagement Outcomes, Kevin M. Kraft
The Impact Of Campus Culture On Undergraduate Civic Engagement Outcomes, Kevin M. Kraft
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One purpose of higher education is to prepare students to participate in a democratic society. This mission is particularly relevant today as the institutions of democracy and the ideas that underpin them are in recession. Despite this, evidence shows that higher education is not achieving its stated goal of fostering civic engagement. The creation and maintenance of an institutional culture can be an effective way to teach civic engagement.
The Carnegie Community Engagement Classification (CEC) signifies that a college or university has institutionalized community engagement. By comparing student civic engagement outcomes at institutions that earned the classification to a control …