Learning Civic Life: College Extracurricular Activities and Post-Graduation Civic Engagement

• In Event: 21020 - Section on Sociology of Education Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 14: Power, Identity, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Education Beyond the Classroom

Abstract

Many American colleges and universities consider civic education a core piece of their missions (Astin 1997), and recent works by college leaders emphasize the importance of civic outcomes (Daniels 2021; Roth 2015; Allen and Kidd 2022). Available evidence supports the idea that achieving a four-year college education is causally related to civic outcomes in young adulthood. This paper is part of a larger project that seeks to model the effects of many aspects of college life and decisions on civic outcomes. In this paper we deploy recent fine-grained data from the College and Beyond II survey (CBII; Courant et al. 2022) to examine one pathway of interest: the relationship between extracurricular activities during college and post-college civic engagement.

Authors

• Andrew J. Perrin, Johns Hopkins University

• Larissa Aiko Morikawa, Johns Hopkins University