CIRCLE is Hiring!

Interested in joining the CIRCLE team? CIRCLE is hiring for two positions – Researcher and Senior Researcher. Please apply by April 13, 2012 for best consideration. Applications will only be accepted via the Tufts jobs site.

New Working Paper Examines the Racial and Ethnic Civic and Political Engagement Gaps of Young Adults

In CIRCLE Working Paper 74, Rebecca Jacobsen and Tamara Wilder Linkow construct a composite index of engaged citizenship indicators for young adults that incorporates 40 variables weighted according to the input of a panel of experts. The resulting Engaged Citizen Index reveals significant racial and ethnic gaps in young adult civic and political participation.

Click here for more information and to access CIRCLE Working Paper 74.

Fourth Annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies

The fourth annual Summer Institute of Civic Studies will be an intensive, two-week, interdisciplinary seminar at Tisch College, Tufts University happening between July 9-19, 2012, at the Tufts campus in Medford, MA. The seminar will be followed (from July 19 at 6 pm – July 21 at 3 pm) by a public conference in downtown Boston on similar themes. Participants in the seminar are required to stay for the public conference. It will bring together advanced graduate students, faculty, and practitioners from diverse fields of study for challenging discussions of questions such as the following:

• What kinds of citizens (if any) do good regimes need?
• What should such citizens know, believe, and do?
• What practices and institutional structures promote the right kinds of citizenship?
• What ought to be the relationships among empirical evidence, ethics, and strategy?

Click here for more information and to apply. For best consideration, apply no later than March 16, 2012.