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    • Campus Compact and AAC&U Higher Education Democracy Exchange (HEDx)

    Posted by Campus Compact on February 18, 2025

    Campus Compact and the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U), in partnership with More Perfect and the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy, announced the Higher Education Democracy Exchange (HEDx), a multi-functional, virtual platform that aims to unite colleges and universities in advancing the civic mission of higher education, promoting democratic knowledge and engagement, and connecting civic learning to public problem-solving across campuses nationwide.

    Working in partnership with More Perfect, the HEDx platform is being developed at a time when American higher education must reimagine its role in advancing democratic goals. Among these are the need for expanding civic literacy, growing national and community-based engagement, promoting civil discourse, supporting engagement in democratic processes, and combating misinformation. The HEDx platform will create mechanisms for addressing what is needed within and beyond higher education to advance the public purposes of colleges and universities individually, and as a whole, in service to democracy.

    The Higher Education Democracy Exchange (HEDx) is supported by a $11.3 million grant from the Ibis Group to More Perfect and its partners advancing Democracy Goal 1 on Universal Civic Learning. The grant promotes civic engagement and learning across several signature investments, including HEDx. HEDx builds upon planning activities developed with generous funding from Lumina Foundation.

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    Get involved with HEDx: Do you want to contribute to the design and development of the HEDx platform? Interested in getting updates? Fill out our HEDx interest form, and we’ll keep you updated with all the coming news and opportunities.

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