Co-Director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship to speak on Hamilton campus Tuesday

September 18, 2009

Harry C. Boyte, founder and co-director of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship based at Augsburg College, MN, will speak on "The Engaged University: A Regional Perspective" at the Harry T. Wilks Conference Center, Tuesday, September 22, 2:15 PM.

Harry Boyte is founder and co-director of the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute's Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and founder of Public Achievement, a theory-based practice of citizen organizing to do public work for the common good which is being used in schools, universities and communities across the United States and in more than a dozen countries.

He has worked with a variety of foundations, nonprofit, educational, neighborhood and citizen organizations concerned with community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal. In the 1960s, Boyte worked for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the southern civil rights movement.

Dr. Boyte plans to discuss higher education's role in the emerging global movement to strengthen "civic agency," i.e., people's capacities to work across differences, in open settings, on common challenges.

All students, faculty and staff are welcome. There will be an opening reception prior to Dr. Boyte's talk at 1:15 PM.

Learn more about Harry C. Boyte.