"To Serve a Larger Purpose"

Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education

Preface • David Mathews Introduction “To Serve a Larger Purpose” • John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley 1 Democratic Engagement • John Saltmarsh and Matthew Hartley 2 Idealism and Compromise and the Civic Engagement Movement • Matthew Hartley 3 Democratic Transformation through University-Assisted Community Schools • Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, and John Puckett 4 Civic Professionalism • Harry C. Boyte and Eric Fretz 5 Collective Leadership for Engagement: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education • William M. Plater 6 Chief Academic Officers and Community-Engaged Faculty Work • John Woodrow Presley 7 Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education: Higher Education’s Democratic Mission • Nancy Thomas and Peter Levine 8 Faculty Civic Engagement: New Training, Assumptions, and Markets Needed for the Engaged American Scholar • KerryAnn O’Meara 9 Putting Students at the Center of Civic Engagement • Rick M. Battistoni and Nicholas V. Longo 10 Civic Engagement on the Ropes? • Edward Zlotkowski 11 Remapping Education for Social Responsibility: Civic, Global, and U.S. Diversity • Caryn McTighe Musil 12 Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time • Lorlene Hoyt 13 Conclusion: Creating the Democratically Engaged University—Possibilities for Constructive Action • Matthew Hartley and John Saltmarsh Contributors Index