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Civic Returns to Higher Education


How, and for Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting? - ERIC

Our findings suggest that civic returns to college are not contingent upon degree completion or socioeconomic returns. An exclusive focus on the economic ...

Valuing the Civic Role of University Education in an Age of ...

Thus, greater investments in education increase the returns in the labour market and create a lower incentive for civic activity. However, there ...

Pathways to Adult Civic Engagement: Benefits of Reflection and ...

The majority of BSP students serve at three or more service sites over the course of their college career, and many return to the same service site over ...

Are there civic returns to education? - IDEAS/RePEc

Downloadable (with restrictions)! The hypothesized effects of educational attainment on adult civic engagement and attitudes provide some of the most ...

Full article: The 'civic premium' of university graduates: the impact of ...

But little is known about how changes to the form and function of mass higher education have impacted on the civic contribution of university ...

Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University

The belief is that research universities are a vehicle for change in higher education and that by renewing their civic mission it might affect the entire ...

Are there civic returns to education? - AcaWiki

Summary · Education may reduce the effective costs of civic participation by making it easier to make sense of complex political information.

Differences in Civic Engagement Across Institutions of Higher ...

Preparing educated and active citizens is one of the primary goals of higher education, yet colleges and universities may neglect civic ...

Can Civics Education in Colleges Strengthen Democracy?

Some of the motivations are certainly commendable -- like increasing voter turnout and civic engagement. Others are more narrowly partisan, such ...

Social and Economic Returns to College Education in the United ...

Education correlates strongly with most important social and economic outcomes such as economic success, health, family stability, and social connections.

Higher Education and Civic Engagement: International Perspectives

This volume provides an original and powerful contribution to debates about the civic purpose of higher education. It suggests that universities can best ...

How, and For Whom, Does Higher Education Increase Voting?

Finally, our results suggest that the civic returns to college are not contingent upon the socioeconomic returns or even degree completion and ...

Civic Returns to Higher Education: A Note on Heterogeneous Effects

Volltext lesen zu:Higher Education; Disadvantaged Youth; Citizen Participation; Civics; Role of Education; Socioeconomic Influences; College Bound Students; ...

How Civics Can Remedy Higher Education's Decline

Restoration of the traditional civic mission of public universities — providing a blend of liberal-arts and American civic education to future ...

Campus Compact: Homepage

The new report, Every Student, Every Degree, recommends that educators make college civic learning and democracy engagement a norm for all students, rather than ...

Civic Engagement, Civic Development, and Higher Education

in which the returns on investment, the private gains of postsecondary education, are skyrocketing and yet the promise of the American dream—that education.

Debate for Civic Learning: A Model for Renewing Higher ...

One way institutions of higher education can return to their shared sense of civic mission is with the integration of debate across the curriculum through ...

Landscape Review Finds More Questions in Link Between Higher ...

While there is a broad understanding that participating in higher education leads to increased levels of civic participation, ...

Higher Education and National Service Building America's Future

Stories of foundational investments in community engagement and democratic learning in higher education institutions that create positive impact for students, ...

Restoring a Higher Civics in America's Universities – Paul O. Carrese

The renaissance in civic education on college campuses should give all Americans hope for the next generation.