David Watson is Principal of Green Templeton College, Oxford.Robert M. Hollister is Dean, and Pierre and Pamela Omidyar Professor of Citizenship and Public Service in the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service at Tufts University.Susan E. Stroud is Executive Director, Innovations in Civic Participation. Elizabeth Babcock is Talloires Network Coordinator, Innovations in Civic Participation.

• Series Editors' Introduction, Preface, Talloires Declaration on the Civic Roles and Social Responsibilities of Higher Education, Introduction and Acknowledgements, I. University-Community Relationships: The long view, 1. Historical and Geographical Perspectives, 2. Types of Capital and Citizenship, 3. Contemporary Drivers, II. The Engaged University, 4. The project, 5. The profiles, 5.1 Australia and its Higher Education System, 6. Findings: Common patterns and influences, III. An Engaged University Movement, 7. Networks: A unifying force , 8. The world upside-side down: university engagement from the South to the North, 9. Implications for policy and practice, Appendix 1. Institutional questionnaire, Appendix 2. Field research questions, Acronyms, References, Notes on Contributors, Index

'The twenty Watson et al cases are preceded by efficient brief country sketches. They use modest low-cost methods of data collection, and are not easily amenable to corroboration – good stories rather than hard data.' - Chris Duke, Pascal International Observatory, 2012