Educating Citizens: Preparing America's Undergraduates for Lives of Moral and Civic Responsibility - Rilegato

"A comprehensive, thoughtful, and beautifully crafted analysis of American higher education′s actual and potential role in preparing undergraduates for citizenship and life. If you have any interest in the civic and moral education of our nation′s college students, read this book!"
Alexander W. Astin, Allan Murray Cartter Professor and Director, Higher Education Research Institute, University of California, Los Angeles

"Americans today are more conscious than they have been for many decades that free institutions cannot be taken for granted. The very survival of self–government depends on the character and capabilities of citizens committed to a public good beyond the narrow confines of self–interest. Educating Citizens is a profoundly timely and enlightening book in these circumstances. The authors enable us to understand a neglected aspect of students experience in colleges and universities and help us chart a new and compelling future for higher education in America."
Eamonn Callan, associate dean and professor of education, Stanford University

"Educating Citizens will become the benchmark resource for everyone who views effective citizenship as an essential outcome of liberal education for the twenty–first century. The authors summarize the research on civic and moral development and present a wealth of campus designs for moving civic engagement and ethical judgment back to the center of academic attention. The authors also provide an incisive history of liberal education that shows how higher education lost its way on civic and ethical development, and they describe in detail what it will take to build a more engaged and public–spirited academy."
Carol Geary Schneider, president, Association of American Colleges and Universities

Thomas Ehrlich is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. He is the former president of Indiana University, provost of the University of Pennsylvania, and dean of Stanford Law School.

Elizabeth Beaumont is a research associate at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

Jason Stephens is a research assistant at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and a doctoral candidate in educational psychology at Stanford University.