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Big citizenship calls on us to define a new catalytic and transparent role for government, one that ensures a level playing field, monitors performance, uses competition and choice, and rewards and scales up what works while recognizing and shutting down what doesn’t.
Most of all, a new philosophy of big citizenship and common purpose demands that we move away from the old, misguided question of “Are you better off?” to the real question: “Are we better off?” We must reassert...
You all, as Harvard students, have already demonstrated your commitment to service on campus. You have volunteered in record numbers through the Phillips Brooks House Association, you have found summer jobs through the Center for Public Interest Careers, and a record 14 percent of you applied to work for Teach...
Now, as you prepare to head out into the real world to create extraordinary lives, I hope you will continue to nurture that spirit of service in assuming what former President Harry S. Truman called the “highest office” in the land: that of citizen. It...
Alan A. Khazei ’83 graduated from Harvard Law School in 1987, is the co-founder of City Year, and the founder and CEO of Be The Change, Inc.