JAN. 28
Combining First-Year Engagement and Civic Engagement
For experts on the undergraduate curriculum and student life, two areas of focus in recent years have
been the first-year experience and civic engagement.
While frequently talked about in separate conversations, speakers at the annual meeting of the
Association of American Colleges and Universities Saturday said that combining these two efforts made them both more successful.
And by successful, they stressed that they weren’t just talking about economies of scale, but mission.
Martha LaBare, associate professor of English at Bloomfield College, in New Jersey, said that it is too easy for
freshman programs to turn into “watching the bottom line” by focusing just on keeping the
bodies enrolled (and presumably paying tuition). T
he civic engagement piece makes these programs about more than retention — but about learning, too, she said...MORE
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