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The American Democracy Project (ADP) is a national initiative of the AASCU that seeks to increase the civic involvement of students enrolled in state colleges and universities. It's also a major component in fulfilling UMA's civic engagement mission. We became an official member of the American Democracy Project in August of 2007.
UMA Hosts Deliberative Democracy Forum on 
Along with our TimesTalk discussions, the NY Times is also used in the following classes:
Augusta
English 389: Francophone Literature, C. Ray
CIS-330: Information Systems Development Methodology, J. Szakas
SOC101: Introduction to Sociology, Dr. Jon Schlenker
Bangor
COL 100: Introduction to College, W. Newton
COM 101: Public Speaking, Professor C. Bates
Our first year of ADP programming here at UMA includes the following:
- Consitution Week
- Civic Engagement Essay contest
- Hunger & Homelessness Awareness Week
- Service-learning and volunteering (link coming soon)
- TimesTalk
- Engaged Lives Speaker series (information coming soon)
- ADP newsletter