{"id":15922,"date":"2015-10-30T14:38:58","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:38:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15922"},"modified":"2015-10-30T14:38:58","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T18:38:58","slug":"tufts-wins-the-new-york-life-civic-engagement-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=15922","title":{"rendered":"Tufts wins the New York Life Civic Engagement Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Center for Internships selects\u00a0the annual\u00a0New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twc.edu\/partnerships\/colleges-universities\/awards\/civic-engagement-awards\/2015-recipients\">2015 award<\/a> went to us at\u00a0Tufts University along with\u00a0Dominican University, John Carroll University (Ohio), Rutgers University-Camden (N.J.), and Weber State University (Utah).<\/p>\n<p>These institutions are all wonderfully different, and\u00a0the award\u00a0emphasizes the many ways that colleges and universities can educate their own students for citizenship and strengthen public life in America.<\/p>\n<p>At Tufts, we\u00a0have two distinctive advantages.<\/p>\n<p>First, we have elevated civic engagement to a high institutional priority.\u00a0Unlike a typical school of public policy or public affairs, the Tisch College of Citizenship &amp; Public Service at\u00a0Tufts is charged with reaching <em>all <\/em>the students and faculty of the whole university,\u00a0regardless of their majors, degree programs, and disciplines. And unlike a center for public engagement or service, the college has a dean who serves as a peer with the deans of Arts &amp; Sciences, Medicine, and the other Tufts colleges and thereby influences the direction of the whole university. Tisch College is the epicenter of civic engagement at Tufts, collaborating closely with all the other schools.<\/p>\n<p>Second, since we are a research university, we contribute to civic life by studying it and by conducting high-end research in\u00a0collaboration with civil society. The award application asked for one example of a civic engagement program at\u00a0each\u00a0applicant&#8217;s campus, and we cited\u00a0the Community Assessment of Freeway Exposure and Health (CAFEH) project. I&#8217;ve written about <a href=\"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=14966\">CAFEH before<\/a>, but the essential points are that the idea came from community groups; they worked with Tufts\u00a0on sophisticated, federally-funded science; and the results include not only\u00a0more than 20 peer-reviewed articles but also local policies meant to address a really serious health problem (fine particulate pollution from highways).\u00a0This is just an example, but it well illustrates how a research-intensive university can support civic life.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twc.edu\/partnerships\/colleges-universities\/awards\/civic-engagement-awards\/2015-recipients\">blurbs<\/a> on the other four winners are also\u00a0inspiring and informative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Center for Internships selects\u00a0the annual\u00a0New York Life Higher Education Civic Engagement Award, and the 2015 award went to us at\u00a0Tufts University along with\u00a0Dominican University, John Carroll University (Ohio), Rutgers University-Camden (N.J.), and Weber State University (Utah). These institutions are all wonderfully different, and\u00a0the award\u00a0emphasizes the many ways that colleges and universities can educate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15923,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15922\/revisions\/15923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}