This digest summarizes a full length report on preparing college students for citizenship responsibilities. The following questions are considered: What is citizenship and public life? What is higher education's role in educating for citizenship? and what are the skills for a renewed civic life?. The importance of citizens integrating their public and private lives for maximum social productivity is stressed. Higher education offers a setting, a curriculum, and an established community, all aimed at developing human beings for living in a public world. Three models can define the citizen's role: electoral-competitive, representative, and participatory democracy. Each model requires different attitudes, skills, and levels of participation. Colleges and universities can help students expand their notions of citizenship through the classroom structure, by providing opportunities for experiential learning, and in creating a campus community where all constituencies can think together about their shared lives. Includes 11 references (DB)