FIPSE Civic Education Program

FIPSE Grant to Support Civic Education Academic Certificate Program

The Bonner Foundation is the recipient of a three-year grant to create a service-honors program integrating academics and service. The initiative, sponsored in part by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), U.S. Department of Education, seeks to facilitate the quality and intensity of students’ college service experiences while promoting civic engagement on campus and in the community through students’ example and influence.

Five diverse institutions of higher education are part of the primary work-group that have been working to create courses and build a curricular sequence (in the form of a major or certificate) that will become the core of the project. The work team includes participants from:

• Mars Hill College in North Carolina
• Portland State University
• The College of New Jersey
• University of California-Los Angeles
• Washington and Lee University in Virginia

Click to the Overview to read more. Another group of campuses are working to bring this initiative to their own campuses.

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