Welcome to the CPP!
The Center for Political Participation (CPP) partners Allegheny College students and faculty with local, state, national, and international communities to undertake interdisciplinary approaches to both learning about and addressing political, economic, and social challenges.
Each of the programs and partnerships of the CPP is directed at emphasizing political participation broadly conceived. Self-governance and robust democratic institutions demand more than electoral engagement; they require citizen commitment to principles of citizenship and responsibility. These principles inform our five programmatic emphases at the CPP:
Electoral Participation
Global Engagement
Law and Justice
Public Policy
Journalism in the Public Interest
Our work is directed at providing opportunities for learning about important issues, events, institutions, and patterns of behavior that relate to complex questions of local, regional, national, and international consequence. We then link those issues of public consequence with students’ energy, creativity, and commitment in order to invigorate civic learning.
Through a diverse offering of collaborative research, community-based learning, conferences, undergraduate research, public lectures, seminars, workshops, and student fellows programs, the CPP is the region’s preeminent resource for liberal arts programming for the public good.
For more information:
Center for Political Participation
Allegheny College
P.O. Box 98
520 North Main Street
Meadville, PA 16335
Phone: 814-332-6202
Fax: 814-332-6262
E-mail: cpp@allegheny.edu
To Contact Brian M. Harward, Director of the CPP:
Brian M. Harward
Phone: 814-332-3027
E-mail: bharward@allegheny.edu
