Re-envisioning Higher Education's Public Mission

Introduction. Patterns of the public mission in colleges and universities Chapter 1. Recharging higher education's social responsibility via anchor institutions as knowledge hubs of opportunityChapter 2. Public-Private Partnerships: Community Engagement through Economic RedevelopmentChapter 3. From Northwood Plaza to Northwood Commons: Morgan State University's Role in Community, Economic, and Business DevelopmentChapter 4. University engagement and methodological concerns and challenges for developing Community Based Participation Collaborative ResearchChapter 5. Cultivating a culture of faculty belonging: Exploring identity, congruence, and job choice theory at research universities Chapter 6. Vision Network: A community college's process to plan and engage community Chapter 7. Higher Education and the Commitment to its Public Mission: The Case of Extension Projects in a Brazilian UniversityChapter 8. Conceptualization of the university's third mission in PanamaChapter 9. A Multi-dimensional transparency tool for Community Engagement: TEFCE pilot at the University of Twente, the Netherlands Chapter 10. Community engagement in Italian higher education: University of Verona case studyChapter 11. Is Being Socially Responsible Always Responsible? Contextualizing University Social Responsibility: An Ethiopian PerspectiveChapter 12. The Entrepreneurial State and the Public Mission of Higher Education Reinvented: Examining Knowledge Transfer Policies of Hong Kong's Universities and Impact of the Academic ProfessionChapter 13. Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research in University's Public Mission

Antigoni Papadimitriou is Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Western Kentucky University, USA. She also holds a courtesy appointment at Johns Hopkins University, USA, to complete two internal grants focused on university-community engaged research and social change.

Marius Boboc is Professor of Education in the College of Education and Human Services and Provost for Academic Planning at Cleveland State University, USA.