American Democracy Project
MTSU Civic Action Plans
Turbocharging Student Engagement, Expanding and Embedding Institutional Capacity
Our civic objectives at MTSU are big. Our goal is nothing less than the comprehensive, thoroughgoing realization of civic learning across the curriculum and the proactive, empowered, excited civic engagement of every student member of our campus community.
The campus work for the expansion and institutionalization of civic learning and civic engagement throughout the university is multilayered, chronologically developing, and institutionally complex. Two key achievements in recent semesters have been the inclusion of
- Responsible citizenship is one of MTSU’s top 3 university-wide strategic goals in our 2025 Quest for Success
- Civic learning in MTSU’s newly rewritten, general education True Blue Core Student Learning Outcomes.
These are concrete indicators of MTSU’s commitment to civic learning and civic engagement and to the campus-wide landscape we are creating within and across every department, college, institute, center, office, and program of our university.
This commitment grows yearly and continues to be implanted more and more deeply. Check out the 2024 Civic Action Plan, winner of the All In Campus Democracy Challenge Highly Established Action Plans for 2024!

Our campus civic engagement action plans are a means to outline MTSU’s methods and strategies for promoting student voter registration, voter education, and student voter turnout.