Publicly Engaged Scholars

Next-Generation Engagement and the Future of Higher Education

Herausgeber: Post, Margaret A.; Longo, Nicholas V.; Ward, Elaine

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This book presents the voices of a new generation of scholars, educators, and practitioners who are committed to civic renewal and the public purposes of higher education. This book offers a vision of the university as a part of an ecosystem of knowledge production.

Margaret A. Post is a Visiting Scholar at the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College. Her research focuses on the role of nonprofit organizations in social policy change. She is author of Grassroots Coalitions and State Policy Change (2011) and is Senior Researcher with the Innovation Network, Inc. conducting a participatory evaluation with the Center for Community Change. Post has been a visiting scholar with the Next Generation Engagement Project at the New England Resource Center for Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston since 2010. Elaine Ward is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the School of Education and Social Policy at Merrimack College. Through her work, Elaine aims to support the development of the next generation of community-engaged scholars. Elaine has written on community engaged scholarly identity development and on change in higher education related to the Carnegie Elective Classification for Community Engagement. Elaine is coordinator for the Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty and is a NERCHE Visiting Scholar. Elaine serves on the Board for the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement and as a Senior Research Associate for the Center for Engaged Democracy. Nicholas V. Longo is professor of Global Studies and Public and Community Service Studies at Providence College. Nick is author of Why Community Matters: Connecting Education with Civic Life (SUNY Press), co-editor of From Command to Community: A New Approach to Leadership Education in Colleges and Universities (Tufts University Press), and co-editor of Creating Space for Democracy: A Primer on Dialogue and Deliberation in Higher Education (Stylus, 2019). Nick lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife, Aleida. Together, they have a great passion for educating the next generation of democratic citizens, starting with their children, May