Each issue of this annual newsletter focuses on a particular area of Kettering's research. The 2015 issue focuses on a yearlong review of Kettering's research over time. This issue contains the following articles that address this review: (1) How Kettering Discovered Democracy (David Mathews); (2) Key Events in KF History (Collette McDonough); (3) The Issue Guide and the Issue Forum: Political Inventions (Brad Rourke); (4) A Treasure Chest about to Open (Nicholas A. Felts); (5) From Public Policy Institutes to Centers for Public Life: Transforming People and Communities (Alice Diebel); (6) At Franklin Pierce, Learning to Make a Difference (Joni Doherty); (7) Town versus Gown? Not Here (Sara A. Mehltretter Drury); (8) Kettering's Evolving Understanding--and My Own (Ray Minor); (9) Two Decades of Learning with Communities (Phillip D. Lurie); (10) Public Education as Community Work (Connie Crockett, Phillip D. Lurie, and Randall Nielsen); (11) Listening for, and Finding, a Public Voice (Bob Daley); (12) Informing or Engaging: What Is the Role of Higher Education in Strengthening Public Life? (Derek W. M. Barker); (13) Scholars and Scholarship with Ties to Communities (Ellen Knutson and Ileana Marin); (14) KF and Journalism: On Again! Off Again! On Again! (David Holwerk); (15) From Civil Society to Civil Investing, and Beyond (John Dedrick); (16) Creative Acts as Democratic Work (Paloma Dallas and Melinda Gilmore); (17) The Dartmouth Conference (Harold Saunders and Philip Stewart); (18) Kettering and China: Thirty Years and Counting (Maxine Thomas); and (19) Kettering's Archives Hold a Quarter-Mile of History (Maura Casey). [For the previous newsletter, "Connections 2014: Taking Stock of the Civic Arena. Annual Newsletter," see ED560897.]