Approved by the APSA Council in December 2022, this new committee advises and supports the association’s mission to promote civic education and scholarship in the K-12 and undergraduate levels. The APSA Committee on Civic Education contributes to APSA’s efforts to advance civic learning, encourage political science scholarship and teaching that focuses on civic knowledge and skills, and promote a healthy constitutional democracy.

Committee Mission Statement:

The Civic Education Committee promotes civic education in K-12 schools, colleges, and universities and fosters efforts to advance civic learning in civil society. The Committee encourages political science scholarship and teaching that focuses on civics – to include civic knowledge, skills, and dispositions – and support for a healthy constitutional democracy and civil society, and works collaboratively with organizations that have similar goals. The Committee may recommend policy on American civic education to the Council on behalf of the Association.

Term Expiring August 2027

• Co-Chair, Elizabeth C. Matto, Rutgers University 
• Taiyi Sun, Christopher Newport University 
• Dawn Michelle Whitehead, American Association of Colleges and Universities 
• Katherine M. Robiadek, Xavier University 

Term Expiring August 2026

• Co-Chair, Stephen Meinhold, University of North Carolina Wilmington
• James Stoner, Louisiana State University
• Carah Ong Whaley, Better Choices for Democracy