Higher Education and Civic Engagement: Comparative Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Introduction....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Civic Engagement in a Cold Climate: A Glocal Perspective....Pages 15-29
Higher Education as a Force for Societal Change in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 31-39
Strategies for Enhancing Sustainability of Civic Engagement: Opportunities, Risks, and Untapped Potential....Pages 41-59
Universities and Their Communities—Engagement and Service as Primary Mission....Pages 61-77
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
A “Civic Mission” for the University: Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Participatory Research....Pages 81-99
Civic Education through Service Learning: What, How, and Why?....Pages 101-124
Volunteering within Higher Education—A Literature Exploration and Case Study....Pages 125-138
Community Perspective on University Partnership—Prodding the Sacred Cow....Pages 139-154
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Service Learning within a Spanish Context—From Teaching to Knowledge Transfer....Pages 157-171
Civic Engagement Practices in Higher Education in Ireland....Pages 173-186
Academic Excellence and Community Engagement: Reflections on the Latin American Experience....Pages 187-203
Through Thick and Thin: The American University of Beirut Engages Its Communities....Pages 205-219
Embedding Public Engagement within Higher Education: Lessons from the Beacons for Public Engagement in the United Kingdom....Pages 221-240
Afterthoughts: The Walls....Pages 241-249
Back Matter....Pages 251-268