Feb 6, 2020 | 2020, Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Issues, Justice |
While global food production has reached record highs, producing more food than necessary to feed Earth’s population, more than 800 million people went undernourished in 2017— including 37 million in the US, or around 11% of the country. While global production...
Nov 18, 2019 | 2019, Issues, Local Politics |
Post by Katrina Tilley and Kaitlyn Carpenter, POSC 351 “Local Politics and Issue Governance” students The City of Harrisonburg conducts a City Council meeting every other Tuesday of the month. On October 22, 2019 there was a meeting held in the council...
Apr 25, 2019 | 2019, Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Issues |
Post by Tyler Strosnider, Honors Civic Engagement N.B. Profiles in Civic Leadership are written by Honors Civic Engagement students. Students selected individuals they believed to exemplify civic leadership, conducted interviews and wrote the profiles. I’m outside a...
Apr 11, 2019 | 2019, Buycotting, Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Issues |
Primer prepared by Kasey Clayton, Honors Civic Engagement “Human trafficking robs victims of their basic human rights, and it occurs right under our noses. Many efforts have been focused in other regions of the world, but this is a major problem here at...
Feb 12, 2019 | 2019, Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement, Issues |
Dr. Meg Mulrooney, associate vice provost and professor of history at James Madison University, has written a blog post on her research and work with students on how blackface on campus has functioned as a form of cultural violence against Black people. Below is an...
Feb 11, 2019 | 2019, Events, Issues, State Politics |
Post by Anna Connole (JMU, ’20) and Shelby Taraba (JMU, ’18), Madison Center Engagement Fellow On a rare 60-degree February day in the ‘Burg, the Madison Center, Dukes Vote and Women of Color at JMU popped up our tents on the Quad and brought Benny’s...
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