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Recommended Readings

Educating Citizens
The core text for this project will be a new book published recently by the Carnegie Foundation.
Educating Citizens : Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility.
Anne Colby, Thomas Ehrlich, Elizabeth Beaumont, and Jason Stephens. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2003.

• Order from Amazon
• Order from Jossey Bass
• Carnegie Foundation

Recommended Readings from AASCU   
Public Work and the Academy: An Academic Administrator's Guide to Civic Engagement and Service-Learning - (Mark Langseth and William M. Plater, Editors. Anker Publishing, Bolton, MA, 2004 in collaboration with Campus Compact. This guide is a comprehensive look at civic engagement in higher education from the perspective of academic administrators. The book begins with a series of topical essays, followed by case studies. This is a very thoughtful collection of essays by some of the leading advocates in the country.

Everyday Politics: Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life (Harry Boyte. The University of Pennsylvania Press. Philadelphia, PA. 2004). In this book, Harry sets out to describe both the theory and practice for his concept that politics must be about ordinary citizens with different perspectives coming together to solve problems. I'll attach both a review of the book and a discussion guide from Campus Compact.   

Contact Dr. Chapman Rackaway, Campus Coordinator, crackawa@fhsu.edu.