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The Fredonia Academic Community Engagement (FACE) Center is hosting a live webinar and campus community discussion on civic agency and the struggle for the future of higher education on Tuesday, Nov. 3 (Election Day) from 2:30 to 4:30 pm in S104 of the Williams Center. Refreshments will be provided.
Moderated by Harry Boyte, the webinar is entitled “Agents and Architects of Democracy: The Struggle for the Future of Higher Education.”
Sponsors are The American Democracy Project in partnership with the Society for College and University Planning, Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Imagining America, CIRCLE, AAC&U, and several other organizations.
Civic agency involves how people develop the skills, confidence, and outlook to become shapers of their lives and communities and agents of change. On Election Day 2009, one year after an energized youth mobilization played a critical role in transforming American electoral history, we urge campus community members to join us as we consider the history and future of civic agency as an organizing theme for higher education.
Our webcast presenters, in particular, consider how higher education can contend with the increasing pressures to become a private good and whether civic agency could become a core focus of higher education in the 21st century. There will be opportunities for questions and answers during the 3-4 pm live webinar, as well as our own campus discussion following the webcast.
For further information, please contact: David Rankin, FACE Director and American Democracy Project Campus Representative, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science, 716-673-4715, rankin@fredonia.edu
About Harry Boyte:
Harry C. Boyte is founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship now at Augsburg College, and a Senior Fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota. For more than twenty years, Boyte has helped to organize and direct action research partnerships and projects aimed at developing practice-based theory for what works to engage citizens in public life. Boyte is also the founder of Public Achievement, a civic and political education initiative that aims at developing the civic agency of young people now in hundreds of communities in 23 countries. Boyte has authored eight books on democracy, citizenship, and community organizing. In the 1960s, Boyte was a field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the organization directed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Harry Boyte is married to Marie Louise Ström, a democracy educator with Idasa, the African democracy organization.
