Word: civic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...recent months, Abdullah has been holding more town meetings, unprecedented in the Kingdom, with prominent groups of Saudis, including intellectuals, civic leaders and minority Shiite Muslims. The government has also begun creating professional unions as a step toward participation in civil society. Even elections, still almost unthinkable in a country ruled by a family dynasty for a century, are on the table. One Western diplomat calls it all the "Riyadh Spring," likening developments to the wave of political liberalism that flowered in communist-ruled Prague in the late 1960s...
...about any of them because I would want to know a lot about what their own communities think about them,” said parent David F. Hannon ’65, who served on the community panel. “What do the teachers think? What do the civic leaders think...
...member of the Committee on Arts Policy, Lee also works with other administrators to arrange panels and invite artsists to the Institute of Politics to make Harvard serve as a “catalyst in addressing the national need for a stronger relationship along policy makers, arts funders and civic leaders,” he says...
Programs like the Reserve Officer Training Corps, which helps students pay for college in exchange for an army service commitment after graduation, should be implemented in other areas of government, the authors said. Politicians should also actively encourage youth participation in politics, and civic education should be changed to reflect the relevance of government in young lives, he said...
Over the past decade, social capitalists such as Harvard’s Malkin Professor of Public Policy Robert D. Putnam have warned that civic participation is waning in the United States—especially among young people. America’s youth vote less and are less involved in their communities than previous generations. Too many American high schools are contributing to this trend by stifling the sort of free speech found in posters or t-shirts with war related messages. These schools are teaching their students that it is better to sit back and remain uncontroversial than create...