MTSU Civic Engagement Resources

American Democracy Project Film and Book Resources 

• A Conversation on the Constitution: Judicial Independence, a 32-minute video taped in 2006, featuring Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer discussing judicial independence with high school students.
• Our Constitution: A Conversation, a 30-minute video taped in 2005, featuring Justices Sandra Day O’Connor and Stephen Breyer discussing why we need a Constitution with high school students.
• Key Constitutional Concepts, a compilation of three 20-minute videos that examine the origins of the Constitution, individual rights, and separation of powers.

Borrow these resources for your classroom. Email us at amerdem@mtsu.edu. For a complete list of resources available, click here.

MTSU Programs with a Civic Engagement Component

• EXL: Experiential Learning Scholars Program
  • Learn more about Dr. Jackie Gilbert’s work with EXL students:
    • MTSU Students Pitch Civility Proposals to Nissan
    • Take a Stand Stop the Bully/The Face of a New Resistance
• SENCER: Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities
  • MTSU contacts: Martha Weller and Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross
• Department of Political and Global Affairs
  • Minor in Civic Engagement. Read about the creation of the minor in Civic Engagement from Dr. Stephen Morris.
  • Model United Nations Program
• Albert Gore Research Center at MTSU
• Center for Historic Preservation at MTSU
• BRAVO: Blue Raiders American Veterans Organization
• Center for Student Involvement and Leadership
  • Student Government Association
  • June Anderson Center for Women and Nontraditional Students
  • Intercultural and Diversity Affairs
  • Student Organizations and Service
    • Student Leadership Development
• MTSU Recycles!
• MT Engage
  • Facebook
• Blue Raider Debate 

Please contact us if you have an online resource to add to our list.