A new civic honors scholarship was recently announced at Oklahoma City Community College (OCCC). The official news release noted, “The Dr. Marion Paden Distinguished Leadership Award will, for the first time this spring, recognize an OCCC Civic Honors student who demonstrates academic excellence, outstanding campus involvement and quality commitment to service in the Oklahoma...
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What is Civic Honors?
The idea of civic honors is for the community to be able to acknowledge those individuals who are active participants within the community. The current design of the graduation with civic honors program requires implementation by a university to bridge academics and involvement in community. The implementation of this idea involves connecting education to society,...
What is Civic Engagement?
Society has experienced a true revival of public interest in civic engagement. Robert Putnam’s (2000) epic work Bowling Alone brought the idea of civic participation to the forefront of the public mind. The value of civic participation is essential to the process of value implementation in the form of civic engagement. Civic engagement is a value...
The Story Behind Graduation With Civic Honors
Believing in a dream like graduation with civic honors is only the first step in the process toward advocating the creation of a graduation with civic honors program. The story behind graduation with civic honors began in an academic setting during the spring semester of 2002 at the University of Kansas. I took a class...
Interview with H. George Frederickson
The Civic Honors Project had a chance to interview H. George Frederickson who served as President of the American Society for Public Administration and has been honored on numerous occasions for distinguished research and professional service by the American Society for Public Administration and the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration....
Interview with Theda Skocpol
The Civic Honors Project had the good fortune of being able to interview Theda Skocpol who is the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, and Director of the Center for American Political Studies, at Harvard University. Skocpol served on the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review, she is the current president of the American...
Interview with Andrew R. Cline
The Civic Honors Project got to interview Andrew R. Cline who is a former journalist. Andrew R. Cline is a rhetoric scholar and adjunct professor of English at Park University near Kansas City, Missouri. If you are a frequent vaster of The Rhetorica Network you know of its unique perspective that comes from the interdisciplinary focus...
Interview with Jean Bethke Elshtain
Recently the Civic Honors Project had the opportunity to interview Jean Bethke Elshtain who is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago and is the author of Democracy on Trial. 1. Is civic engagement declining in modern American society, and does it matter? It appears to be, if...
Interview with Peter Levine
The Civic Honors Project had a chance to interview Peter Levine who is a research scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy at the University of Maryland and deputy director of CIRCLE: The Center for Information & Research on Civic Learning & Engagement. Peter Levine is also involved in several online projects, which have caught...