This essay may be considered a brief report to the discipline on a three year project designed to integrate citizenship and public policy education. Supported by the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE), an agency of the U.S. Department of Education, the project established an on-going “Workshop in Citizenship and Public Policy” in the Department of Political Science at Marshall University. Although students enroll in “workshop” as for any other course, traditional classroom methods are abandoned in an effort to engage students actively in field research related to policy problems in West Virginia. The highlight of the project is a workshop product — the West Virginia Citizens’ Almanac, to be published annually as a guide to citizen participation in the Mountain State. The almanac is intended to give direction and focus to workshop activity, bring students into an effective working relationship with current issues of citizenship and public policy, and at the same time reach out to citizens in a way that might foster greater interaction between higher education and the wider, less formal, processes of learning in a democratic society.