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...master's degree in public administration and used to work for the U.S. Federal Government as a trade negotiator. But during the U.S. presidential election four years ago, as overseas votes trickled in and officials pored over hanging chads in Florida, Shackelton realized she had shirked the most fundamental civic duty: casting a ballot. "I felt embarrassed and irresponsible," she confesses. This time Shackelton, who supports Democratic nominee Senator John Kerry, registered for an absentee ballot and spent a night last week watching her candidate debate President George W. Bush on a giant TV screen in a packed lecture hall...
...changes in funding for education and health care. With such highly contested issues appearing on state ballots, it’s likely that—if encouraged and reminded by projects such as “I Decide”—more students will assert their civic duty this election...
...first Gandhi Day of Service, in memory of the leader of the Indian independence movement, Mohandas K. Gandhi, took place in 1997 at the University of Michigan to promote civic engagement and community service...
Marable’s second demand was that black studies combine with a new model of civic engagement in order to enact change. To that end, I offer that faculty can impact the grassroots by organizing—drumroll please—students! The apathy with which many intellectuals credit our generation is a result of being bombarded with statistics about poverty and hopelessness without being offered mentorship as we seek to solve these dilemmas. With no meaningful guidance, many black students decide to major in law, business, or medicine with a minor in black magic—the study...
They’re budding in all directions, in other words, but according to Gould-Wartofsky, their future lies in the Mt. Auburn house, a former fraternity purchased by the Foundation for Civic Leadership that the Forum has been using since they started working together. If the house comes through—Gould-Wartofsky would not comment on how likely that is at this point—it would unite the groups in the Forum in a much more palpable way. After all, the coalition’s roster, which features everybody from the Harvard Initiative for Peace & Justice...