We should never forget that we are not only training the future workforce of our community and the U.S., but that it is our responsibility to provide a platform for civic engagement, ensuring that our students are capable of making and justifying informed moral and civic judgments, and taking actions when appropriate.
Official remembrances of the wars are used to recall his civic-mindedness, judgment and courage.
It is a world of "commercial content," driven by algorithms "without", Spangler wrote (perhaps quoting Clay Shirky), "regard to civic value or subjective judgments about quality or any of the other sentimental trappings of the Murrow century".
Elizabeth Byard, Danny O'Donnell, Tom Duane, Edie Windsor, Chely Wright and so many others testified regarding her stalwart civic and community involvement, her good judgment, her friendship and her good faith.
Today, historians fashionably emphasize the role of "memory". Rating presidents apparently is not a very revealing barometer of our civic consciousness; then again, one might say these judgments reveal it all too well.
And it has come with no judgment on the sexual orientation of two gay civic leaders with whom the church people have coordinated and cooperated: Sam Adams, Portland mayor through most of the Seasons of Service effort, and Carole Smith, superintendent of Portland Public Schools.
In a legal victory for Honda Motor Co., a judge has reversed a small-claims judgment that would have forced the automaker to pay a Civic hybrid owner nearly $10,000 for overstating the vehicle's fuel economy.
But we think that in recent years there has been little disposition to underrate the value of the services which the World has rendered, not without unwarranted judgments and grave mistakes, to the general advancement of civic and political morality.
That is a strange judgment to make about what is, after all, a call for civic participation — to take differences to the polls.
