Civic Participation
Final Student Reports Complete Inaugural DataCorps Fellowship
The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project wrapped up its first summer of the DataCorps Fellowship Program. At the beginning of the summer, the DataCorps fellows identified individual topics they would like to research. Each fellow then designed one to two questions on their topics to be included in the project’s service corps member survey. […]
Tracking Activism and Resistance at the No Kings Day of Action
Over the past 6 months, protesters have flooded the streets across the country to voice their concerns about the Trump Administration and its policies. Multiple large-scale, coordinated days of action organized by groups such as Indivisible and more informal networks like 50501 movement have taken place. The most recent day of action was called No […]
CECE Whitepaper No. 2: Mobilizing Young People to Help Communities Recover from Disaster–A [...]
How are service corps programs supporting communities as they respond to and recover from disaster? This paper provides insights into who is working in such programs, what are their motivations for serving, and how do they hope to contribute to creating more resilient communities post-disaster. The study integrates data collected from members of three different […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Wraps Up Site Visits in Los Angeles with the DataCorps Fellows
Author: Kaitlin Dellaposta The city of Los Angeles in southern California is well known for its glamour and beautiful scenery, but also for its dangerous wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs research team along with the DataCorps Graduate Fellows visited the third and final site of the summer in the city of Los Angeles. Here, […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Continue Site Visits in Utah with the DataCorps Fellows
Author: Cici Akuley Nestled in the Mountain West region of the United States, rural Utah is known for its breathtaking mountainous landscapes. Nevertheless, residents must also contend with a wide range of natural disasters that include droughts, floods, and wildfires. The Workforce Development & the 4Rs project research team, along with our DataCorps Fellows, visited Richfield, […]
Workforce Development & the 4Rs Kicks Off Summer 2025 Site Visits with DataCorps Fellows
Author: Michael Culbert The New Orleans area is racked with a variety of environmental challenges. Much of the area is below sea level, its position on the Gulf Coast is prone to intense hurricanes, and the combination of high humidity and high temperatures leads to substantial heat-related threats. The CECE research team kicked off our […]
What We Lose When America Loses AmeriCorps
Click here to read CECE Director, Dr. Dana R. Fisher‘s recent commentary in Rolling Stone about losing AmeriCorps and the effects it could have on federal workforce development and community response to disasters.
CECE Researchers Survey Rallies as Action Grows Around the Country
As demonstrations have become more commonplace in Washington, DC, CECE has deployed teams of researchers to many of the larger rallies to document trends in activism and civic engagement. To date, we have collected data at the People’s March in January, the Stand Up for Science Rally in March, and the HandsOff Rally in April. […]
[Recap] CECE Colloquium Series – Activism and Social Movements
On Monday, March 31st CECE’s Director Dana Fisher was joined by SOC’s Rosalind Donald for the final CECE colloquium of the semester. Fisher and Donald focused the discussion on their work related to activism and social movements. Fisher presented on her newest research, which focuses on protests. She is particularly interested in what factors are driving people to protests […]
The People’s March 2025: Surveying Protesters in Resistance 2.0
CECE Director and SIS Professor, Dr. Dana R. Fisher, along with a research team of 8 AU-affiliated researchers and students, attended the People’s March in Washington, DC on 1/18/2025 to survey participants. The March was organized as a legally permitted peaceful demonstration on the Saturday before the inauguration of Donald Trump. Data were collected as […]
[Article] Why climate activists are becoming more radicalized (and why that’s not a bad thing)
CECE Director, Dana R. Fisher, recently published an Opinion piece in The Hill (co-authored with Professor Hajar Yazdiha from USC). In the OpEd, they write about the radicalization of climate activism and what the climate movement can learn from the Civil Rights Movement. Click here for the full article.
CECE Research Team Kicks-off Climate Corps Pilot with Visits to Vermont and California
This fall, the research team working on the Addressing Climate Change Through Our Nation’s Service Corps Project visited three Climate Corps sites as part of a pilot to study the ways their programs are connecting climate-interested young people and embedding in communities. At each site, Principal Investigator Dana R. Fisher presented a curriculum on the […]