Students in one of my Fall 2012 feature writing classes found a gold mine of information in the 2011 Alabama Civic Health Index, the first in-depth report of the state of Alabama’s civic health. The feature writing students in the Auburn University Department of Communication and Journalism class were challenged to discover and report stories [...]
On Tuesday, July 24, 2012, DMC Assistant Program Director Cristin Foster presented on the Alabama Civic Health Index (ACHI) at the Alabama Poverty Project Higher Education Alliance 2012 Summer Workshop/Annual Meeting. The workshop, entitled “Developing a Long Term Vision to Unlock Alabama’s Potential,” focused on developing healthy and resilient communities across Alabama that effectively face [...]
On Thursday evening, April 19, 2012, the David Mathews Center for Civic Life sponsored the unveiling of the Alabama Civic Health Index (ACHI) at an event entitled “A Conversation on Alabama’s Civic Health featuring Dr. Robert Putnam.” The event was held at the Alabama Department of Archives and History in the Joseph M. Farley Auditorium. [...]
“Our Community, Our Future: The Role of Citizens in Solving the High School Dropout Situation” an Alabama Issues Forums Workshop The David Mathews Center for Civic Life will host a workshop focusing on the dropout issue in Alabama high schools entitled, “Our Community, Our Future: The Role of Citizens in Solving the High School Dropout [...]
Last week I attended the 66th National Conference on Citizenship (NCoC) in Phoenix, AZ. The Conference was held outside Washington, D.C. for the first time, and I was proud to be a participant. For those who are unfamiliar with the organization, Congress chartered the NCoC in 1953 to harness the patriotic energy and national civic [...]
