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April 18, 2003
The possibility is real
The resources and technology exist to create the program and the university has the leadership ability to make this program a reality. The university already has the internal organization necessary to track students and it is possible for that database to be utilized to also track the civic honors program internally for students. This foundation of information makes implementation of the internal civic honors program much simpler than the implementation of the external program. The internal program only has to deal with students and the coordination of declaring the civic honors within the university itself. The external program is more complex it requires working with the organizations to develop a database that is not only accessible to the organizations but to members of the community. Being able to work with individuals outside the university is the basis for long-term development of the civic honors program within the community.
It is not likely that a civic honors program will spontaneously develop within the community without the backing of a strong organization like a university. The college has the resource of the students to connect or bridge to community. This cannot be taken for granted and the development of a rich and complex civil society will just appear. It has to be cultivated by the vision of an organization willing to acknowledge the advanced industrialization and technology alone will not create a sustainable and efficient program for developing the community. To truly develop a strong civic honors program, the organization has to acknowledge the difference between developing a strategy for crafting a stronger civil society and just developing technology for the sake of developing technology. The university has to design the civic honors program based on utilizing the strengths of developing technology to benefit society. One of the benefits of advancing technology is being able to lower the cost of implementing a civic honors program.
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