Re-envisioning Higher Education’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.

• 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 opportunity.- Chapter 2. Public-Private Partnerships: Community Engagement through Economic Redevelopment.- Chapter 3. From Northwood Plaza to Northwood Commons: Morgan State University’s Role in Community, Economic, and Business Development.- Chapter 4. University engagement and methodological concerns and challenges for developing Community Based Participation Collaborative Research.- Chapter 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 University.- Chapter 8. Conceptualization of the university’s third mission in Panama.- Chapter 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 study.- Chapter 11. Is Being Socially Responsible Always Responsible? Contextualizing University Social Responsibility: An Ethiopian Perspective.- Chapter 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 Profession.- Chapter 13. Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research in University’s Public Mission.