Meaningful student participation is essential to realizing democratic ideals within the
university. However, existing structures for involving students within university governance …

The widening cracks in the foundations of American democracy are leading to appeals for
higher educational institutions generally, and public affairs programs specifically, to offer …

What role should libraries play to ensure citizens develop the competencies they need to
fulfill their vital civic roles in our democracy? Alarms raised over widening civic knowledge …

In this article, I discuss how the principle of exemplarity developed in the 1970s by the
Marxist educators and theorists Oskar Negt and Knud Illeris can be a model for a …

In this Science, Ethics, and Society elective undergraduate course at the St. Louis College of
Pharmacy, students consider topics that scientists face continuously, including human and …

The purpose of this study was to explore faculty members' perceptions of their roles as
boundary spanners, the expectations they have for professional competencies related to …

Previous research (;) finds that conflict orientation—individuals' psychological predisposition
towards conflict—conditions attitudes of people in the United States in the face of political …

What are the impacts of teaching deliberation on students' attitudes in practical discussions?
This study presents research findings from a field experiment involving more than 500 …

This is a practical guide to designing, teaching, and coordinating service-learning courses,
and for developing reciprocal community partnerships and community-based research …

Many thinkers lament the decline of liberal democracy. Some argue that, to rejuvenate it, we
must think big. Thinking big involves generating new ideas about how to achieve an …