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This may overstate, however, the degree to which the management of everyday life and its objects, like the lawn, is passive. The level of civic engagement embodied in the maintenance of the lawn in a face-to-face society like Kingberry Court suggests something else. Despite an insistence that the lawn is collectively trivial and tangential, there is a persistent moral responsibility tied to lawn care that no resident can deny. 

Previously described in Shachter, A. and J. Edgerly (1999) Campus environmental resource assessment projects for non-science majors. J. Chem. Educ. 76,1667-1670. 3Briefly described in Middlecamp, C., T. Jordan, A. Shachter, S. Lottridge, and K. Oates (2006) Chemistry, society, and civic engagement (part 1) The SENCER project. J. Chem. Educ. 76,1301-1307. 

Chemistry and the Environment is designed to intentionally motivate and engage students by connecting basic chemical principles and civic engagement through public issues such as air quality, ozone depletion,... 

As a form of civic engagement, the projects helped the students learn more about how the university operates (74%) and created a stronger feeling that the students have a greater stake in how the university... 

The research projects are themselves a form of civic engagement and contribute to campus and community sustainability. The course is a SENCER model that offers paths for students to embrace civic engagement and responsibility while learning science. 

Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America (2000) Better Together. Report of the Saguaro Seminar on Civic Engagement in America, p. 80, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. 

Finally, there was more civic involvement among students exposed to diversity. We had measures of the kinds of activities in which students participated in communities and the variety of their civic commitments. We found greater civic engagement when students had opportunities to interact with diverse peers during their college years. 

Dachas, forests, and meadows are the very sites where Russians socialize, feel safe, and engage in collective responsibility. These common spaces are also marked by a striking civic life, most notably citizens attention to the ideals of freedom that have become prominent in the postcommunist period. As informants repeatedly told me, it is in natural spaces that they feel most free and where they experience the effects of the changes taking place in today s Russia most profoundly. It is also where individuals seem to feel most able to express their opinions and to criticize the forces that otherwise structure their lives. 

Integrating Green Chemistry throughout the Undergraduate Curriculum via Civic Engagement... 

Lees, A. B. (2008) Chemistry in Your World A Guide to Global and Civic Engagement, unpublished... 

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