The People Volume 1 Number 1

The Official Journal of the Touro College Civic Action Committee.https://touroscholar.touro.edu/archives_books/1315/thumbnail.jp

Military Civic Action

The use of combat troops to construct roads, buildings, and other projects of social and economic importance has had a long history in human affairs, beginning in Biblical times

Youth Activism and Public Space in Egypt

Examines youth activists' use of virtual and physical public spaces before, during, and after the January 25 Revolution. Profiles three organizations and analyzes the power and limitations of social media to spur civic action, as well as the role of art

Campus Civic Action Plan

Illinois State University committed to developing, in academic year 2016-17, a Civic Action Plan that aligned with the five commitments, tailored to our campus and community. The final version of the Civic Action Plan submitted to Campus Compact is presented below.https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/prcce/1008/thumbnail.jp

Faith, Community and Civic Action: Reflections on the Organized Religion Initiative

Evaluates how well six California faith-based institutions used community organizing to pull immigrant and low-income communities into more active involvement with political and civic leadership and participation activities, between 1996-2005

Civic Action and the Library

1. Civic Action and the Library Tammi Owens Emerging Services Librarian Winona State University Darrell W. Krueger Library CLASP Lecture Series March 26, 2014 2. Collection Space People 3. Libraries Connect thinkers & doers with ideas using collections, spaces, and people. 4. Libraries Must strive to provide strength to our communities. 5. Collection Space People 6. Collection Space People 7. Collection Space People 8. Information literate Being able to “recognize when information is needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.” 9. Information literacy combines a repertoire of abilities, practices, and dispositions focused on expanding one’s understanding of the information ecosystem, with the proficiencies of finding, using and analyzing information, scholarship, and data to answer questions, develop new ones, and create new knowledge, through ethical participation in communities of learning and scholarship. 10. Collection Space Peopl

Rural Civic Action Project Poster

The final project for the Rural Civic Action Project is to create a poster that includes the Community Capital Mapping activity (CCMA; Keith & Kinsey, 2013). The Community Capital Maps provide an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the projects from the participants’ perspective. Fellows should include one map on their poster: the center of the map should be “Engaging in the Rural Civic Action Program. Also included on the poster is a narrative describing the map

Rural Civic Action Project Poster

The final project for the Rural Civic Action Project is to create a poster that includes the Community Capital Mapping activity (CCMA; Keith & Kinsey, 2013). The Community Capital Maps provide an opportunity to evaluate the impact of the projects from the participants’ perspective. Fellows should include 2 maps on their poster: the map that was created through facilitating the CCMA, the map created by the fellows evaluating the impact of their service project (the work the fellows are doing in the schools). Also included on the poster is a narrative describing the maps

The relation of service activity to change in empathy

The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between empathy, service, and other variables that have been seen in the past to be possible predictors of empathy and service. Undergraduate and graduate students took a survey measuring their emotional empathy, strength of religious faith, intent to engage in civic action, other predictor variables, and the amount of service each participant engaged in. Pearson’s correlations and independent t tests were run to analyze the relationships between the variables. The intent to engage in civic action measure was highly correlated with both the emotional empathy scale and strength of religious faith scale. In addition, two groups of majors (group one included social sciences, biology, and education; group two included all other majors) were found to be different in their levels of empathy and their intent to engage in service. To test whether an increase in service was related to a change in empathy, some participants took the survey twice. However, differences at pretest and posttest were not found to be significant. Keywords: empathy, service, volunteerism, faith, civic action, majo