The New Jersey Center for Civic Education is an independent non-profit organization affiliated with the Rutgers University School of Arts and Sciences and located on the Rutgers-Piscataway campus. The Center is dedicated to:
- Fostering the knowledge, skills and dispositions students need to be responsible, engaged politically tolerant citizens in a democratic society
- Providing professional development and resources for K-12 educators
- Promoting civic engagement and an understanding of history and the role of the citizen and public policy-making in a democratic society
- Advocating for policies that enhance the teaching of social studies
