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<h1><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><img width="600" height="54" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image003.jpg@01CCCEEA.9C0BCD30" alt="Description: cid:image003.jpg@01CCCEE7.956679B0"></span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h1><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">White House Convening on Civic Learning – Watch Live Stream on Jan 10, 2 p.m. EST</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<p><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) is pleased to announce its participation in a White House national convening named
<i>For Democracy’s Future: Education Reclaims Our Civic Mission</i>. You can view the event through a live stream provided on the White House website</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333"> (</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/live">http://www.whitehouse.gov/live</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">)</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
<span style="color:#1F497D">on </span>January 10, 2012, from 2:00 – 6:00 p.m. EST. The event will include presentations by Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, Undersecretary of Education Martha Kanter, AAC&U President Carol Geary Schneider, and others. The
event also will mark the release of <i>A Crucible Moment: College Learning and Democracy’s Future</i>, a report and National Call to Action from the National Task Force on Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement. The full text and highlights of the report
will be available for downloading January 10 on AAC&U’s website at:</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://www.aacu.org/civic_learning/crucible">www.aacu.org/civic_learning/crucible</a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">.</span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The event also will highlight the new American Commonwealth Partnership, which aims to bring together thousands of universities, colleges, community colleges, schools, and
other civic partners to promote civic mission and identity. A fuller discussion of the report and its National Call to Action will also occur at two upcoming Washington, DC, events sponsored by AAC&U—a National Symposium,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">
“</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/AM12/symposium.cfm">Reversing a Civic Recession: What Higher Education Can Do</a></span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">,”
scheduled for January 25, 2012, and AAC&U’s Annual Meeting,<span style="color:#333333"> “<a href="http://www.aacu.org/meetings/annualmeeting/index.cfm">Shared Futures/Difficult Choices: Reclaiming a Democratic Vision for College Learning, Global Engagement,
and Success</a>,” </span>January 25-28, 2012. To view the White House convening, see:<span style="color:#333333">
<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/live">http://www.whitehouse.gov/live</a>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Questions? Contact Chad Anderson via e-mail,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333"><a href="mailto:Anderson@aacu.org">Anderson@aacu.org</a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#333333">,
</span><span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">or call 202.884.7429.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:8.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Ola Ahlqvist and Harmony Cox<br>
Service-Learning Initiative<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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