Harry Boyte of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship has some strong words of praise for UMBC's SGA in a blog post today. Boyte offers reflections on last week's Civic Agency Institute in Washington, DC, a national meeting of partners working to focus American higher education on empowering citizens and building a stronger democracy. He calls UMBC's SGA "the outstanding example" of a government that serves as a meeting ground for its constituents and a catalyst for their civic contributions, and points to SGA as "a model for governments at every level to learn from."