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Managing Civic And Community Engagementby David Watson
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 53.98Contends that genuine engagement, with the community and with civil society, can be uncertain and risky, but that it plays an essential role in managing higher education institutions. This book provides key reading for people interested in equity and diversity in higher education, including those studying aspects of higher education management. more...
Practising Public Scholarshipby Katharyne Mitchell
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 2009; US$ 39.95A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide. Includes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biology Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics—one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system Provides... more...
Les universités et la ville au Moyen Âgeby Patrick Gilli; Jacques Verger; Daniel Le Blevec
BRILL 2007; US$ 141.00The incorporation of universities into medieval cities produced specific difficulties for and benefits to urban communities. Ranging from Coimbra to Prague, the case studies collected in this volume examine the particular forms of contact between two institutions which marked the Middle Ages. more...
Organizing for Social Partnershipby David J. Siegel
Taylor & Francis 2010; US$ 40.95The most complex social challenges ? such as post-secondary access and success for under-represented students, diversification of the workforce, poverty, environmental degradation, and global health ? exceed the problem-solving capacity of single organizations or societal sectors. Organizing for Social Partnershipprovides colleges and universities, corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations with a model for how to effectively address these and other pressing social issues through strong, effective collaboration. This valuable book is relevant for graduate students enrolled in courses on postsecondary organization and governance, equity and diversity, access, administration, and contemporary issues.Organizing for... more...
Becoming an Engaged Campusby Carole A. Beere; James C. Votruba; Gail W. Wells; Lee S. Shulman
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2011; US$ 40.00There is a trend to have universities make a stronger commitment to community engagement. This book offers a how-to resource for campus leaders who want to take a strategic approach to creating change within the university and in relation to the community. It emphasizes what to do to expand community engagement at the university, and explains how to minimize the risks that can accompany this work. The authors provide a clear path to creating an engaged university and institutionalizing change so that it becomes integrated into the fabric of the university. more...
The Engaged Universityby David Watson; Susan E. Stroud; Robert Hollister; Elizabeth Babcock
Taylor & Francis 2011; US$ 160.00The Engaged University is a fully empirical account of a genuinely global movement of higher education institutions to increase university civic engagement. more...
The City as Campusby Sharon Haar
University of Minnesota Press 2010; US$ 83.00We are witnessing an explosion of universities and campuses nationwide, and urban schools play an important role in shaping the cities outside their walls. In The City as Campus , Sharon Haar uses Chicago as a case study to examine how universities interact with their urban contexts, demonstrating how higher education became integrated with ideas of urban growth as schools evolved alongside the city. The City as Campus shows the strain of this integration, detailing historical accounts of battles over space as campus designers faced the challenge of weaving the social, spatial, and architectural conditions of the urban milieu into new forms to meet the changing needs of academia. Through a close analysis of the history of higher education in... more...
The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universitiesby Patricia Inman; Hans G. Schuetze
NIACE 2010; US$ 28.95The untapped energy of universities and other institutions of higher education to address regional issues seems endless. Issues less defined by political boundaries and increasingly defined by place call for a new type of engagement. This book discusses the challenges of engagement, but also the possibilities. more...
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