Higher Education and Civic Engagement

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Civic Engagement in a Cold Climate: A Glocal Perspective

Chapter 3 Higher Education as a Force for Societal Change in the Twenty-First Century

Chapter 4 Strategies for Enhancing Sustainability of Civic Engagement: Opportunities, Risks, and Untapped Potential

Chapter 5 Universities and Their Communities—Engagement and Service as Primary Mission

Chapter 6 A “Civic Mission” for the University: Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Participatory Research

Chapter 7 Civic Education through Service Learning: What, How, and Why?

Chapter 8 Volunteering within Higher Education—A Literature Exploration and Case Study

Chapter 9 Community Perspective on University Partnership—Prodding the Sacred Cow

Chapter 10 Service Learning within a Spanish Context—From Teaching to Knowledge Transfer

Chapter 11 Civic Engagement Practices in Higher Education in Ireland

Chapter 12 Academic Excellence and Community Engagement: Reflections on the Latin American Experience

Chapter 13 Through Thick and Thin: The American University of Beirut Engages Its Communities

Chapter 14 Embedding Public Engagement within Higher Education: Lessons from the Beacons for Public Engagement in the United Kingdom

Chapter 15 Afterthoughts: The Walls