The following readings provide a foundation for our strategic plan. They amplify, highlight, and engage the issues and histories of civic learning in higher education, civic health, race and inequity in St. Louis, and more.
- A Crucible Moment: College Learning and
Democracy’s Future
The National Taskforce on Civic Learning and
Democratic Engagement - Civic Health Initiative (2019)
National Conference on Citizenship - Civic Responsibility and Higher Education (2000)
Thomas Ehrlich - Election Imperatives 2020: A Time of Physical Distancing and Social Action (2020)
Nancy Thomas, Adam Gismondi, & Kyle Upchurch - Election Imperatives Version 2.0 (2019)
Nancy Thomas, Margaret Brower, Ishara Casellas Connors, Adam Gismondi, & Kyle Upchurch - For the Sake of All (2015)
Health Equity Works - Forward Through Ferguson: A Path Toward
Racial Equity (2015)
Ferguson Commission Report - Higher Education’s Role in Enacting a
Thriving Democracy (2018)
American Democracy Project, NASPA Lead Initiative,
The Democracy Commitment - Next Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education: Publicly Engaged Scholars (2016)
Margaret A. Post, Elaine Ward, Nicholas V. Longo, & John Saltmarsh - Research on Student Civic Outcomes in
Service Learning (2017)
Julie A. Hatcher, Robert G. Bringle, & Thomas W.
Hahn - Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the
Professoriate (2015)
Ernest L. Boyer, Drew Moser, Todd C. Ream, & John M.
Braxton - The Broken Heart of America: St. Louis and the Violent History of the United States (2020)
Walter Johnson - The Politics of Learning for Democracy (2015)
Nancy L. Thomas