We the People Award
The "We The People”
Award honors institutions that demonstrate a strategic team commitment to
prioritizing, institutionalizing and advancing student civic learning and
community engagement in regional, state, and/or national communities.
Specific criteria for the Civic Learning and Community
Engagement Award:
- The institution exhibits sustained and measured
progress toward institutionalizing civic learning and community
engagement efforts via strategic, comprehensive, and reciprocal metrics.
- The institution demonstrates that commitment
to civic learning exists across the curriculum with engaging pedagogies,
meaningful student involvement, and campus processes such as rewarding faculty
teaching and scholarship for civic purposes.
- The institution exemplifies innovative
initiatives that foster student learning and civic skill building and meaningful
partnerships with community members and organizations to build more
just and equitable communities.
Applications
in this category are reviewed by selected American Democracy Project Steering
Committee members. Nominees are recognized at the Civic Learning & Democratic
Engagement Meeting in June and the winner is recognized at the Annual
Conference in November.
Past Recipient
- 2022: The Center for Community Engagement (CCE) at Sam Houston State University (TX)