In this article, the authors review higher education's evolving role in this nation's democracy. They then describe a new collaboration, the Civic Learning and Democracy Engagement (CLDE) Coalition, which responds educationally to the challenges facing our democracy. The CLDE Coalition aims to (1) reclaim and revitalize higher education's public good mission; and (2) translate that mission into a new determination to help all college students, not just some, gain the civic knowledge, deliberative and problem-solving skills, and practical collaborative experiences they need to play constructive roles in democracy's shared future.