For ALL College Students:
The CLDE Guide to Generative Curriculum Planning
Virtual Forum | April 13, 2026 | 3:30–5:15 PM EDT
Register today for the Virtual Forum!
The CLDE Guide for Generative Curriculum Planning is a resource for educators who want to make college civic learning empowering for students, feasible for faculty, and renewing for a divided and skeptical democracy.
Join us to learn more about the guide, a how‑to companion to the CLDE Coalition’s call to action: Every Student, Every Degree: College Civic Learning for Today’s Students and Tomorrow’s Democracy.
The CLDE Guide will be sent to all forum registrants.
Welcome
Jonathan R. Alger
President, American University
Principled, Purposeful, Practical, and Career-Savvy:
How the CLDE Guide Connects Civic Inquiry and Problem-Solving with Students’ Goals and Needs
Carol Geary Schneider, Director, CLDE Coalition
Featured Panel
It Takes More Than One Course: Weaving Problem-Centered Civic Inquiry Across General Education and Majors, with High-Impact Practices Included
Tia Brown McNair
Vice President of Strategy and Collective Impact, Alliance for Higher Education
Patty Robinson
Faculty Director Emerita, Civic and Community Engagement, College of the Canyons
Trygve Throntveit
Research Professor in Higher Education and Associate Director, Center for Economic and Civic Learning, Ball State University
Carol Geary Schneider
Director, CLDE Coalition
Featured Panel
Civic Learning, College Majors, and the Liberal Learning Opportunity:
What Career Success Requires in the AI World of Work
Debra Humphreys
Vice President of Strategic Engagement, Lumina Foundation
Yetunde Odugbesan-Omede
Director of Office of Community & Civic Engagement, SUNY-Farmingdale State College
Bridget Trogden
Dean of Undergraduate Education and Academic Student Services, American University
Nancy Shapiro
Senior Advisor, CLDE Coalition
Collaborations and Previews:
How the CLDE Guide Relates to Campus Compact’s framework for Campus Action Planning; Constitution Day at American University
Bobbie Laur
President, Campus Compact
Alexis Bucknam
Project Director for Campus Action Planning, Campus Compact
Carol Geary Schneider
Director, CLDE Coalition