Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement | Introductory essay: eJournal of Public Affairs, Volume 7, Issue 1

The eJournal of Public Affairs is a joint venture of Missouri State University and the American Democracy Project (ADP) at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU). This partnership has resulted in several themed eJournal issues focusing on various ADP initiatives and on topics related to ADP’s annual conference, formerly the National Meeting. The annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement (CLDE) meeting, established in 2015 as a joint venture of ADP, The Democracy Commitment (TDC), and NASPA’s LEAD Initiative, has since played host to a variety of eJournal program sessions, and through this gathering we have encouraged participating faculty, staff, students, and community partners to submit manuscripts to the eJournal for publication. In 2017, the CLDE meeting and eJournal staff teamed up to release a joint call for submissions for a special issue focused on the content of that meeting’s scholarship and practice. Other than the split issue on global engagement in 2014-2015, the issue you are reading today is the largest single issue in the eJournal’s history.