Pat Ashton, Laurie Corbin, Barry Hancock, Susan Hannah, Marc Lipman

New Members: Members introduced themselves. Hannah noted the distribution of both a personal and public invitation for SC membership, ideally to include students.

Materials: New SC members received copies of Educating Citizens; all were referred to the national ADP website for other resources.

Progress Reports: SC members reported on the progress of several ongoing ADP-related activities:

• Inventory: The group will meet after we decide on a definition for civic education.

• Voter Registration drive: Downs will contact Shilling about a drive for students.

• “Teach-In”: Downs reported for Lutz that Political Science was planning a program to be announced, probably about Iraq.

• ADP web page: Hannah and Corbin will begin this process.

• NY Times Connections: IU is pursuing a contract through the Library.

• Assessment: Hancock and Miller are looking into options, and identifying problems.

• Other ongoing activities: Service Learning, Downs Center, Omnibus Lecture, Diversity Course Transformation, General Education requirement.

November 12-13 conference: SC members interested in attending the Indiana state ADP meeting in November at IUK should contact S. Hannah. OAA will cover expenses. Both Ann Colby and Tom Ehrlich, authors of Educating Citizens, will be there.

Fall 2003 Agenda: The group reviewed and accepted the proposed meeting schedule and discussion agenda developed by Downs and Hannah. A copy is attached as a reminder of the meeting dates and discussion questions.

Defining “Civic Education”: Using the Building Block question “How do we at IPFW define civic education,” the SC broke into three groups, each of which collected ideas. We then combined the work of the groups into an outline of what we identified as core components of a civic education. We saw the dynamic interrelationship of knowledge and action as a central concept in both the components and processes of civic education. These core components/processes are as follows:

• An understanding about how societies work and the relationship of self to community (responsibility/ accountability/reflection).

• Knowledge about how American government (process) works and how it came about (history)

• Commitment to and practice in democratic values such as mutual respect, commitment to diversity, social justice,

• Development of personal skills for finding information, critical thinking and communicating as informed citizens in a democratic society.

• Opportunities for engagement, taking personal and collective action for the public good.

• Exploration of critical American issues such as the impact of slavery, consumerism, social structure, capitalism, etc.

• Incorporation of active, student centered pedagogies such as problem-based learning, service learning, and other forms of experiential learning to teach by modeling responsible civic engagement.

Next Steps: SC members will review this concept of civic education and bring any proposed changes to the next meeting. At our next meeting, we will identify the types of activities/experiences that could be used to deliver the civic education we have defined. We will develop a mission statement for the project and begin to think of how to put it in place.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, October 7, 2003; 3:00-4:30 p.m., KT 178

Thanks again to each of you for your participation in this important project!!!

Notes prepared by SBH

September 26, 2003