“Colleges Should Put Their Money Where Their Ideals Are” by Sandra Goldmark

“It’s Actually Not About the Student: Rethinking the Power of Educational Technologies for Engaged Teaching and Learning” by Dan Butin

“Placemaking and the University – Opening the University to the Community” by John Tibbit

“So You Want to Reform Democracy” by Joshua Tauberer

“What Iowa Needs Now: Civic-Minded Professionals” by Emily Shields of Iowa Campus Compact

“Universities and Their Cities” by Scott Jaschick interviewing Steven J. Diner, author of Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America 

Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America by Steven J. Diner

Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education. In Universities and Their Cities, Steven J. Diner explores the roots of American colleges’ traditional rural bias.

The Journal of Public Interest Communications: Volume 1, Issue 1

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Public Interest Communications explores public interest communications (PIC) from a variety of disciplines and angles. These invited essays lay the groundwork for the study of PIC and illustrate its interdisciplinary perspective.

“Service Learning as Inquiry in an Undergraduate Science Course” by Kelsie M. Bernot, Amy E. Kulesza, Judith S. Ridgway

To engage students in applying scientific process skills to real-world issues, [the authors] implemented a service-learning project model in [their] undergraduate introductory biology course for science majors. This model illustrates how we integrate inquiry inside and outside of the classroom through four steps: service, learning, classroom, and community.