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Escalating college costs affect who can go to which school, career opportunities, the kinds of courses that are offered, and the degree of innovation that faculty and administrators may employ. Some resources we think you'll find helpful on this issue: our new study on ways to engage faculty in reforming colleges from the inside out; our work in boosting community college graduation rates; our surveys on stumbling blocks to graduation and changes that might help; comments from our president, Ruth Wooden, on the importance of good advice for high school students; and Squeeze Play 2010, the latest in our series of public opinion surveys on college costs.
TODAY'S FOCUS
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AT PUBLIC AGENDA
While always adapted to the task at hand, our work in public engagement revolves around three fundamental and interrelated practices:
Learn more about Public Agenda's core approach to engaging the public.
Explore our other tools for public engagement.
Read brief descriptions of selected recent initiatives and what they accomplished.
CENTER FOR ADVANCES IN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
The Center for Advances in Public Engagement was launched in an effort to engage citizens more fully in public life. CAPE takes a leading role in a field dedicated to promoting new and better ways for citizens to confront pressing public problems, and to close the gap between leaders, experts and the public in the search for solutions. It is dedicated to re-engaging the larger public on important public matters, to create the possibility for dialogue that gets beneath the "snapshot" or "knee-jerk" views of public sentiment.
THE LATEST FROM CAPE:
PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT NEWS
Articles & SpeechesMind the Gap: Science Museums as Sources of Civic Innovation, by Alison Kadlec, July 2009
Authentic Dialogues Yield Rich Results (AchievingTheDream.org report on 2009 Strategy Institute)
South Texas College Creates College-Going Culture (AchievingTheDream.org report on 2009 Strategy Institute)
City schools tested by the issue of safety (Animoto.com, June 10, 2009)
Framing For Deliberation (video op-ed by Will Friedman of Public Agenda for SongOfACitizen.com, Spring 2009)
2009 Strategy Institute, San Francisco (profile of Public Agenda's work on the Achieving The Dream initiative to improve success rates for students at community colleges)
"Governing As If Citizens Matter," by Will Friedman and Alison Kadlec, Feb. 19, 2009
"Connecting The Dots From The Highest Office To The Grassroots," by Will Friedman, Jan. 26, 2009
CityWide on CUNY TV, Will Friedman interview on the advantages of public engagement, May 21, 2008.
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THE ENGAGERS: FAVORITE LINKS
Our public engagement team, which works to help citizens, lawmakers and public officials get into real dialogue to achieve real solutions to public policy problems, is smart - very smart. But they're also very well-informed.
Here are a few of their favorite sources for finding out the latest on the art, science and achievements in the field of public engagement:
Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
Deliberative Democracy Consortium
DemocracySpace.org
International Association for Public Participation (IAP2)
Journal of Public Deliberation
Journal of Public Deliberation Practitioners Site
Kettering Foundation
National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation
