This article describes Michigan State University’s “transformative engagement process,” an interactive process in which all partners – academic and community – apply critical thinking...
The increase in health disparities signifies the importance of employing an ethical approach to CBPR. This article provides background on various ethical issues in...
The approaching 2012 sesquicentennial of the signing of the Morrill Act provides an occasion to celebrate the enduring power of the land-grant vision of...
The Talloires Conference, held in Talloires, France in September 2005, was the first international meeting of heads of universities committed to strengthening the civic...
In South Africa research is produced in multiple conversations that include conventional academic disciplinary communities, but it also extends beyond the university, engaging with...
This essay advocates articulation of a broader role for academic faculty in American democracy beyond their technical expertise as critical for making the case...
This study examines the motivations of sixty-eight faculty who are community engaged exemplars. Motivations include personal commitments to specific issues, neighborhoods, and people, perceived...
This report reviews the rationale for higher education institutions to be engaged with communities, guiding characteristics that define an engaged institution, and a set...
Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography—and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, and the activist...
Because research universities “set the bar” for scholarship across higher education, they are positioned to promote and advance new forms of scholarship that link...
This statement, which was endorsed by the participants of the first TRUCEN meeting at Tufts University in 2005, argues that because of research universities’...
This article asserts that the shared underlying value systems of action research (AR) and deliberative democracy (DD) can mutually reinforcing, with the former especially...
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