Collaborative Scaling Initiatives

Civic-minded institutions and organizations have built a creative civic learning movement across U.S. higher education. But with workforce development the predominant public policy priority, this movement has remained largely invisible to those not involved.

The CLDE Coalition is working to reverse this inattention by bringing policy influencers together with educators to explore the what, why, and how of making college civic learning a valued part of all students’ degree pathways. The coalition’s strategy involves networks of networks collaborating together to make civic learning and democratic engagement the norm across higher education.

The CLDE Coalition has focused primary attention on initiatives that bring educational leaders and policy influencers together in promoting civic learning and democracy engagement: the Multi-State Collaboration for College Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement and the Accreditation Commission Initiative for College Civic Learning.

The Accreditation Initiative for College Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement promotes the use of the accreditation process and the activities of accrediting commissions to accelerate civic learning for an engaged democracy among all types of postsecondary institutions across the U.S. The seven formerly regional accrediting commissions all are participating.
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The Multi-State Collaborative for College Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement (MSC) is organized through a partnership between State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO) and the National Association of System Heads (NASH), and in collaboration with the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement (CLDE) Coalition. The MSC includes a dozen state systems working to develop strategies that promote robust, state-level policies and programs to accelerate civic learning and democracy engagement.
More on the Multi-State Collaborative for College Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement

Learn more about additional scaling initiatives here.