Word: civic
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...million in 2005, according to the study. The study’s directors attributed the rise in participation in part to the fact that these students witnessed the 9/11 attacks and their aftermath while in high school. “We may be witnessing a new civic 9/11 generation,” said Kevin Cramer, Deputy Director for Research and Evaluation at CNS. He added that students who saw the “heroic response” of the emergency service workers at Ground Zero were spurred to action. The same report said that the volunteering rate among college students...
Harvard can’t bear the collective responsibility for the civic failure of Massachusetts’ students, but it’s obvious some of my peers here don’t exude any enthusiasm for service. While a devoted student contingent serves close to 10,000 clients in the Cambridge area through the Phillips Brooks House Association, most are less generous with their time. Some revel in privileged positions of “high society,” and just the thought of feeding an old woman at a nursery home or picking up garbage at a park...
...federal Corporation for National and Community Service released a comprehensive study on college student volunteering entitled “College Students Helping America.” The rosy report found that volunteering increased by 20 percent from 2002 to 2005, representing 600,000 more students dedicating their time to civic engagement. Some colleges—Elon University, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and California State University, Monterey Bay—will receive the first President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll awards for exemplary civic contributions. Others will receive awards for their hurricane relief efforts...
Cabot Professor of American Literature Lawrence Buell said he was drawn to the symposium by the “intellectual brio of the speakers rather than any sense of civic duty...
...Williams lays blame for the “culture of failure” at the feet of America’s black leadership, and his criticisms seem on the mark. He excoriates civic leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, and political leaders like former Washington Mayor Marion Barry and former Newark Mayor Sharpe James...