Teaching for Engagement: Innovative Perspectives to Get Your Students More Involved

Abstract

Loeb is author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times, The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen’s Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (named the #3 political book of 2004 by the History Channel and the American Book Association), Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus, Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times. Both The Impossible and Soul won the Nautilus Award for best social change books of their respective publication years. Loeb has written on social involvement for The New York Times,Washington Post, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, AARP Bulletin, Boston Globe, Psychology Today, Utne Reader, Redbook, Parents magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Mother Jones, Salon, The Village Voice, National Catholic Reporter, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and International Herald Tribune. He has been interviewed on CNN, NPR, PBS, C-SPAN, NBC TV, the BBC, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, American Urban Radio, Voice of America, and national German and Australian radio. He has lectured on 400 college campuses and at numerous national conferences. His January 2002 talk at the annual provost’s conference of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities helped inspire what is now a 200-campus American Democracy Project. In 2008, Loeb worked with Campus Compact to create and coordinate the Campus Election Engagement Project, helping colleges and universities in 15 states engage their students in the election. He participated in the Department of Education’s 2011 roundtable on higher education and civic engagement and blogs regularly at Huffington Post.