Center for Civics, Culture and Society

Today and always

Summer can provide the opportunity to revisit texts more slowly and attentively; returning to arguments, ideas, and questions that often deserve more than a single reading.

At the Center for Civics, Culture and Society, that work continues beyond the classroom through sustained engagement with foundational texts and the traditions that shape civic life.

Summer at the Center

While the semester has concluded, the work of the Center for Civics, Culture and Society continues through reading, preparation, and reflection on the ideas that shape civic life.

This summer, the Center looks forward to continued engagement through faculty scholarship, educator programming, and sustained attention to foundational texts and enduring questions.

The work of civic education does not end with the academic calendar.

Summer offers a different kind of space for reading, reflection, and reconsideration—an opportunity to return to foundational texts and enduring questions with renewed attention.

The Center for Civics, Culture and Society looks forward to continuing that work in the months ahead.

As the spring semester begins to wind down, the Center for Civics, Culture and Society has continued its work bringing students and faculty together around the close reading of texts and the discussion of enduring questions in civic life.

In classrooms and public programs, this work has focused on careful attention to language, argument, and the habits of thought that support serious engagement with ideas.

We look forward to continuing these conversations in the months ahead.

The day is here!

If you can't make it to campus for our event, feel free to join us through the live stream, available here: https://vimeo.com/event/5884782

Tomorrow, the Center for Civics, Culture and Society will host a discussion centered on a close reading of the Declaration of Independence.

The program will explore the structure, philosophical foundations, and enduring meaning of the text,inviting careful consideration of what it meant in 1776 and what it continues to ask of us today.

📅 April 28
📍 Cleveland State University

Event details:
🔗 https://csuohio.edu/event/civics/421-america-250-nation-born

Event Update | America 250: A Nation is Born

Please note that the date for America 250: A Nation is Born has been updated.

This program, centered on a close reading of the Declaration of Independence, will now take place on:

📅 April 28
📍 Cleveland State University

The discussion will explore the structure, philosophical foundations, and enduring meaning of the text—inviting careful consideration of what it meant in 1776 and what it continues to ask of us today.

Updated event details and registration:
🔗 https://csuohio.edu/event/civics/421-america-250-nation-born

Summer Seminar Update

Applications for the Center for Civics, Culture and Society’s Summer Seminar for Educators are now closed.

We appreciate the strong interest in the program. Applications are currently under review, and all applicants will be notified of their status in the coming weeks.

We look forward to welcoming this summer’s participants.

In CIV 111: The American Republic, students are working to understand texts not as isolated statements, but as sustained arguments.

Through close reading and discussion, they examine how ideas are developed, how claims are supported, and how meaning emerges from context.

This work is less about arriving at quick conclusions and more about developing the habits of thought required for serious engagement with civic life.