Massachusetts Public Colleges to Start Tracking Civic Engagement

As in, college students will have to fulfill some to-be-determined civic engagement requirements in order to graduate. “It’s one thing to say we’re teaching this,” says Carol Geary Schneider, president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities. “It’s another to say we intend to report the results, and in doing so, to put civic learning on the front page as an expected college outcome.” [IHE]