{"id":7695,"date":"2011-12-09T14:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7695"},"modified":"2011-12-09T14:56:44","modified_gmt":"2011-12-09T19:56:44","slug":"democracyu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=7695","title":{"rendered":"DemocracyU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/democracyu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"   alignnone\" title=\"DemocracyU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/social-media-tout-1024x291.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American Commonwealth Partnership (ACP), to be launched in January, is an initiative of\u00a0the White House Office of Public Engagement, the Association of American Colleges and Universities,\u00a0 the Department of Education, and supportive partners such as the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/adpaascu.wordpress.com\/\">American Democracy Project<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deanza.edu\/communityengagement\/democracycommitment\/\">The Democracy Commitment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nerche.org\/\">NERCHE<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncoc.net\/\">National Conference on Citizenship<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.compact.org\/\">Campus Compact<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.margainc.com\/initiatives\/aitf\/\">Anchor Institutions Task Force<\/a> (see Tim Eatman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/imaginingamerica.org\/blog\/author\/ia_admin\/\">summary<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Today, the ACP unveiled a website called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/democracyu\/\">DemocracyU<\/a> that&#8217;s devoted to presenting students\u2019 personal stories of civic activism, plus discussion and debate on the evolving role of university and college students in engaging in public work that benefits society. The website will be hosted on CIRCLE&#8217;s site, as our contribution to the effort. It links to a new <a href=\"http:\/\/democracyu.wordpress.com\/\">blog<\/a> on which some of my friends have already contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Commonwealth Partnership (ACP), to be launched in January, is an initiative of\u00a0the White House Office of Public Engagement, the Association of American Colleges and Universities,\u00a0 the Department of Education, and supportive partners such as the\u00a0 American Democracy Project, The Democracy Commitment, NERCHE, the National Conference on Citizenship, Campus Compact, and the Anchor Institutions [&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-7695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695","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=7695"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7695\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}