The Student Task Force for Civic Values will hold its first open forum for the student body tomorrow afternoon. Titled "Educating Undergrads for Active and Effective Citizenship: Is Princeton Falling Behind Its Peers?" the forum will be led by the students on the task force as well as guest professors, including Stanley Katz, Nancy Watterson and Lisa Ratmansky.
"Princeton wants to create leaders, and if they want to do that they have to recognize the importance of civic values," said Jordan Amadio '05, a physics major.
The task force began in September and is the first of its kind at the University, said Lindsay Michelotti '02, Civic Values Initiative program manager for Project '55. Michelotti traces the origins of the project to the frustrations of students returning to campus after doing summer internships in civic programs.
"Students were coming back and had nowhere to go," Michelotti said.
Task force members conduct extensive interviews with University faculty, administration, students and trustees; create asset maps of University resources to support civic engagement; and investigate similar programs at other campuses, visiting Tufts University, Duke University, Harvard University, the University of Maryland, the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.
The seven students on the committee range from freshmen to juniors; physics majors to Wilson School students. The motivations that have brought each student to the committee are similarly diverse. One wants to increase political activism, another has a vision of using science for social change and a third is concerned about increasing participation in community service. All emphasize the need for an academic approach to civic values that will bring questions of engagement in the community to the forefront of the University's intellectual life.
Most students on the task force speak optimistically about the future of civic values at the University.
"We're poised to really take the lead," said Jeff Bozman '05, a task force member.
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