{"id":8829,"date":"2022-11-14T13:35:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T18:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/?p=8829"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T17:29:34","slug":"developing-engaged-citizens-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/developing-engaged-citizens-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing Engaged Citizens at URI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Perri Leviss and Student Public Policy Fellows:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nethra Prasanna<\/strong> (International Studies and Spanish),&nbsp;<strong>Aly Crowley&nbsp;<\/strong>(Political Science and Criminal Justice),&nbsp;<strong>Angelina Gomes<\/strong> (Early Childhood Education and Human Development), and&nbsp;<strong>Sareena Shetti<\/strong> (Sociology and French).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-8832\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/image1-300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/image1-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/image1-364x273.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/image1-500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/image1.jpeg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Sareena Shetti<\/strong> (left) and <strong>Aly Crowley<\/strong> (right) in action during data collection\/interviewing on campus<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-8837\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Snapchat-1371575914-1-e1667585196274-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8837\" style=\"width:163px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Snapchat-1371575914-1-e1667585196274-213x300.jpg 213w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Snapchat-1371575914-1-e1667585196274-364x513.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Snapchat-1371575914-1-e1667585196274-500x705.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Snapchat-1371575914-1-e1667585196274.jpg 638w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 213px) 100vw, 213px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Nethra Prasanna<\/strong> (ISD\/Spanish)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-8864\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--300x225.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8864\" style=\"width:308px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--364x273.jpeg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--500x375.jpeg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--1000x750.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--1280x960.jpeg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--2000x1500.jpeg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1611\/Crowley-Gomes-picture--scaled.jpeg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Aly Crowley<\/strong> (left) and <strong>Angelina Gomes<\/strong> (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1146\/PL-Headshot-e1625684012546.jpg\" alt=\"Perri Leviss\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>Perri Leviss:<\/strong>&nbsp; Currently Assistant Prof.&nbsp; of Political Science at Rhode Island College (previously in Political Science Department at URI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;This is a research project that examines the experiences of <span style=\"font-family: Charter, Georgia, serif;font-size: 20px\">recent URI college graduates from the December 2021 and May 2022 classes to explore their levels of civic engagement. The project addresses a series of research questions about the civic mindedness of URI students (and how this may differ by race + ethnicity, gender, class, major etc.), the types of civic-oriented activities students participated in during their time at URI (including academic experiences and co-curricular activities) and the relationship of these activities to students\u2019 sense of community and belonging at URI as well as their post graduation plans. As an engaged research project in partnership with Generation Citizen\/RI (<a href=\"https:\/\/generationcitizen.org\/tag\/rhode-island\/\">https:\/\/generationcitizen.org\/tag\/rhode-island\/<\/a>), members of the URI student community were involved in the design of the research project, the data collection, and the analysis and reporting of both quantitative and qualitative data. The project builds upon a pilot study that was developed in spring 2022 through a student directed course to <strong>1)<\/strong> identify validated measures of civic engagement and citizenship used at other institutions of higher education and <strong>2)<\/strong> test the data collection instruments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perri Leviss and Student Public Policy Fellows:&nbsp; Nethra Prasanna (International Studies and Spanish),&nbsp;Aly Crowley&nbsp;(Political Science and Criminal Justice),&nbsp;Angelina Gomes (Early Childhood Education and Human Development), and&nbsp;Sareena Shetti (Sociology and French).&nbsp; &nbsp;This is a research project that examines the experiences of recent URI college graduates from the December 2021 and May 2022 classes to explore their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ppl-in-progress"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9905,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8829\/revisions\/9905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/ssirep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}