Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Community engagement in higher education : policy reforms and practice / edited by W. James Jacob, Stewart E. Sutin, John C. Weidman, and John L. Yeager.

Publication Info. Rotterdam : SensePublishers, 2015.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xx, 334 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Pittsburgh studies in comparative and international education ; volume 3
Pittsburgh studies in comparative and international education ; volume 3.
Note Includes index.
Summary There seems to be renewed interest in having universities and other higher education institutions engage with their communities at the local, national, and international levels. But what is community engagement? Even if this interest is genuine and widespread, there are many different concepts of community service, outreach, and engagement. The wide range of activity encompassed by community engagement suggests that a precise definition of the community mission is difficult and organizing and coordinating such activities is a complex task. This edited volume includes 18 chapters that explore conceptual understandings of community engagement and higher education reforms and initiatives intended to foster it. Contributors provide empirical research findings, including several case study examples that respond to the following higher educaiton community engagement issues. What is the community and what does it need and expect from higher education institutions? Is community engagement a mission of all types of higher education institutions or should it be the mission of specific institutions such as regional or metropolitan universities, technical universities, community colleges, or indigenous institutions while other institutions such as major research universities should concentrate on national and global research agendas and on educating internationally-competent researchers and professionals? How can a university be global and at the same time locally relevant? Is it, or should it be, left to the institutions to determine the scope and mode of their community engagement, or is a state mandate preferable and feasible? If community engagement or community service are mandatory, what are the consequences of not complying with the mandate? How effective are policy mandates and university engagement for regional and local economic development? What are the principal features and relationships of regionally-engaged universities? Is community engagement to be left to faculty members and students who are particularly socially engaged and locally embedded or is it, or should it be, made mandatory for both faculty and students? How can community engagement be (better) integrated with the (other) two traditional missions of the universityresearch and teaching? Cover image: The Towering Four-fold Mission of Higher Education, by Natalie Jacob.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Community and college.
Community and college.
Universities and colleges -- Public relations.
Universities and colleges -- Public relations.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Added Author Jacob, W. James, editor.
Sutin, Stewart E., editor.
Weidman, John C., 1945- editor.
Yeager, John L., editor.
Other Form: Print version: Community engagement in higher education : policy reforms and practice. Rotterdam, Netherlands ; Boston, Massachusetts ; Taipei, Taiwan : Sense Publishers, c2015 xix, 334 pages Pittsburgh studies in comparative and international education ; Volume 3. 9789463000055
ISBN 9789463000079 electronic book
9463000070 electronic book
9789463000055
9789463000062
9463000054
9789463000055
9463000062
9789463000062
Standard No. 10.1007/978-94-6300-007-9