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Introducing a Culture of Civility in First-Year College Classes
- The Journal of General Education
- Penn State University Press
- Volume 58, Number 1, 2009
- pp. 47-64
- 10.1353/jge.0.0029
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This article presents the case for general education assuming a leadership role in explicitly introducing academic civility education in the first-year classroom. A general definition of civility as a virtue is offered as a foundation for developing a Code of Academic Civility for use in first-year classes.