Gregory Laski holds a Ph.D from Northwestern University and writes about culture and civic life. His latest book is “Democracies in America: Keywords for the Nineteenth Century and Today,“ (2023)
The Civics of Higher Education
Christina Clark was working online — trying to up her “LinkedIn game” — when she spied a post promoting a new program to recenter the civic mission of higher education. Clark knew immediately she wanted to join the movement, led by New Jersey nonprofit The Institute for Citizens & Scholars [C&S]. It was the spring …