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Download full textHarris, James T., III; Pickron-Davis, Marcine – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
In this reflective essay, we describe Widener University's 10-year transformation from a disengaged institution to an institution that has a metropolitan-focused mission vested in civic leadership, community engagement, and service-learning. We describe our journey to embed an expansive civic frame that includes concrete practices of pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Institutional Mission, Urban Universities, School Community Relationship
Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
The mission of The Research University Civic Engagement Network (TRUCEN) is to advance civic engagement and engaged scholarship among research universities. TRUCEN has adopted the following goals for advancing civic engagement and engaged scholarship as part of the core mission of all research universities: (1) Encourage community-engaged…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Research Universities, Institutional Mission, Citizen Participation
Harkavy, Ira; Hartley, Matthew – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2012
This essay builds on and extends earlier research and writing that the authors have done, trying to understand how a commitment to local engagement, which is the term commonly used at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), becomes embedded in the core work of the institution. Their inquiries have been guided by social psychologist Kurt Lewin's…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Public Service, Institutional Research, Self Evaluation (Groups)
Reconnecting to Mission: Connecticut College's Outreach to New London during the Claire Gaudiani Era
Marthers, Paul – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2009
During her presidency (1988-2001), Claire Gaudiani reconnected Connecticut College with New London, the college's home city, whose citizens through grassroots fund raising and donations of land established the college in 1911. Through an emphasis on service-learning, community outreach, and an education not for oneself as well as economic…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Service Learning, School Community Programs, Community Development
Green, Rodney D.; Venkatachalam, Padma – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2005
Universities today exert an ever-increasing stimulus to small business development, contributing to national and local economic development as the general economy becomes increasingly knowledge-based. The transition to a knowledge-based economy, coupled with the passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980, has resulted in stronger university-industry…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Small Businesses, Entrepreneurship, College Role
Ramaley, Judith – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2003
This conference is built on two very interesting premises; first, that university outreach can change society and second, that outreach can also change the university. What is the mechanism by which this mutual influence can offer? What does the university offer the community, and what does the community offer the university? The short answer…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Educational Change, School Community Relationship, College Role
