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Higher Education
This series of research products addresses higher education’s role in facilitating youth civic engagement, as well the engagement of young people who attend college.
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2010 College Student Voting – Part 1
We’ve shown how youth voting differs a great deal by education level. In April CIRCLE calculated the 2010 youth voter turnout using the newly-released Census Current Population Survey (CPS) data. The analysis included estimates by educational experience, showing dramatic differences. A 16 percentage point gap separates the turnout of those with college experience from those Read More >
The Effects of Institutional Culture on Leadership Education at Tufts University
A new book edited by Nicholas V. Longo and Cynthia Gibson, entitled From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in College and Universities (Tufts University Press, 2011), explores the intersection of leadership education and civic education in twelve wide-ranging chapters. Chapter 8, by Elizabeth Hollander, Kei Kawashima-Ginsberg, Peter Levine, Duncan Pickard, and Read More >
Millennials Talk Politics: Clues for Further Engagement
In November 2007, CIRCLE released a major new report on college students’ political engagement entitled Millennials Talk Politics (MTP), based on 47 focus groups on 12 four year campuses across the country. This ‘Research to Practice’ article provides concrete examples of how MTP has been used by students, college professors, and college administrators to encourage Read More >
FEATURED: New CIRCLE working paper shows college students respond strongly to an in-person drive; choose to vote “back home” in swing states.
By Kim Castle, Janice Levy, and Michael Peshkin October 2009 In CIRCLE working paper (#66), authors Kim Castle, Janice Levy and Michael Peshkin assess the outcomes of an in-person campus drive in which students were offered a choice of college-state voting in Illinois, or home-state voting by absentee ballot. The study found that the great Read More >
CIRCLE receives two grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service
The Corporation for National and Community Service announced a $570,000 grant to CIRCLE at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Public Service at Tufts University. The grant will support CIRCLE in building an online community that college students throughout the greater Boston area will use to pool information, deliberate, and coordinate their service and activism. Read More >