Navigating Identities in Higher Education

This panel offers teacher-scholars, staff, and administrators at colleges and universities around the globe models and ideas to craft dynamic civic engagement pedagogies that cultivate public-spirited citizens capable of sustaining inclusive, stable democracies in the face of democratic backsliding and rising authoritarianism at home and abroad. Papers will feature well-designed, evidence-based, and well-vetted classroom, campus, and community activities, learning modules, events, and assessment designs that provide robust political learning by incorporating emphases on diverse identities, national and institutional contexts, and democratic resiliency in an era of democratic backsliding, authoritarianism, misinformation, political propaganda, and threats of violence. Papers welcomed that highlight that resilient democracies capable of countering such challenges are characterized by egalitarianism and inclusion.