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The Civic University - The Policy and Leadership Challenges (Hardcover)
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The Civic University - The Policy and Leadership Challenges (Hardcover)
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'This book provides a welcome and highly relevant analysis of civic
universities-academic institutions with particularly strong ties to
their cities and regions in terms of research, teaching and civic
engagement. These universities are especially relevant in the 21st
century, and often forgotten by analysts and policy makers alike
who are too busy chasing rankings. The conceptual framework as well
as the case studies included in this book are equally valuable.' -
Philip Altbach, Boston College By exploring a normative model of
universities as institutions with a responsibility to contribute to
the public good, this book addresses the leadership, management and
public policy challenges of maximizing higher education's
contribution to civil society. It codifies the extensive academic
literature in this field and reviews higher education and other
public policies that both drive and inhibit civic engagement both
globally and locally. Comparing experiences and reports of an
institutional developmental process undertaken in eight distinctive
universities in four European countries and guided by the editors
the book explores key questions such as: what is the Civic
University, and how can we use this concept to understand higher
education's engagement with the outside world in varying
institutional and geographical contexts? What are the appropriate
internal structures and mechanisms required for a university to
effectively encourage and support civic engagement activity for the
greatest societal impact?How can embedding civic engagement in
individual institutions and wider systems be facilitated by changes
in higher education and related policies at the sub-national,
national and European level? Succinct and discerning, The Civic
University will be of great interest to academics working in the
fields of higher education, science and innovation studies and
community and city development. It will also appeal to university
leaders and organisers of institutional leadership development
programmes along with city leaders and policy makers at national
and international levels.
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