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COMPLETING THE MATRIx As a group, map your institution’s commitment to civic learning and democratic engagement. Use sources of knowledge readily available: the experience of team members, information in catalogues and on your institution’s website, existing institutional data, etc. Use the space in the boxes provided to summarize and highlight programs, policies, and initiatives that fall into specific domains of institutional functioning and culture and dimensions of civic learning and democratic engagement (e.g., majorspecific capstone courses that raise civic questions related to the discipline would be listed under the domain of majors and under Dimension 3: Civic Inquiry). The rating boxes allow you to indicate the degree of pervasiveness for each domain across the four dimensions. Use the following scale to fill in these boxes: Low (L) = little breadth and depth (i.e., isolated and surface-level efforts to implement civic learning and democratic engagement); Medium (M) = some breadth and/or some depth; and High (H) = strong breadth and strong depth (i.e., integrated and embedded efforts to foster civic learning and democratic engagement). ASSET-GAP ANALYSIS (SEPARATE FROM THIS FORM) When your matrix is completed, examine both the assets (patterns of clearly established programs and policies) and the gaps (areas where civic learning and democratic engagement are missing). As a group, ask yourselves what made your assets possible. What caused gaps to occur? From there, begin to develop an action plan to build on your assets and close your gaps, using Civic Investment Plan questions if useful. 84
Civic Institutional Matrix: Assessing Assets and Gaps in a Civic-Minded Institution Use this matrix to summarize the scope of your institution’s efforts to educate for civic learning and democratic engagement Dimensions of a Civic-Minded Institution Degree of pervasiveness Indicate “L” (Low), ”M” (Medium), or “H”(High) Dimension 1: Civic Ethos Dimension 2: Civic Literacy Dimension 3: Civic Inquiry Dimension 4: Civic Action Mission, Leadership, & Advocacy Domains of Institutional Functioning and Culture General Education Majors Student & Campus Life Community-based Experiences Reward Structures This matrix was inspired by the institutionalization rubric found in Making a Real Difference with Diversity: A Guide to Institutional Change (Clayton-Pederson et al. 2007) and more fully developed in the Personal and Social Responsibility Institutional Matrix (www.aacu.org/core_commitments/documents/PSR_Institutional_Matrix. pdf). For a more detailed matrix broken out by dimension of civic-mindedness, visit www.civiclearning.org. A CRUCIBLE MOMENT: College Learning & Democracy’s Future 85
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