John Saltmarsh

"to Serve a Larger Purpose": Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education John Saltmarsh

Marc Notes: Originally published: 2011.; Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Preface / David Mathews -- Introduction To Serve a Larger Purpose / John Saltmarsh, Matthew Hartley -- 1. Democratic Engagement / John Saltmarsh, Matthew Hartley -- 2. Idealism and Compromise and the Civic Engagement Movement / Matthew Hartley -- 3. Democratic Transformation through University-Assisted Community Schools / Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy, John Puckett -- 4. Civic Professionalism / Harry C. Boyte, Eric Fretz -- 5. Collective Leadership for Engagement: Reclaiming the Public Purpose of Higher Education / William M. Plater -- 6. Chief Academic Officers and Community-Engaged Faculty Work / John Woodrow Presley -- 7. Deliberative Democracy and Higher Education: Higher Education's Democratic Mission / Nancy Thomas, Peter Levine -- 8. Faculty Civic Engagement: New Training, Assumptions, and Markets Needed for the Engaged American Scholar / Kerry Ann O'Meara -- 9. Putting Students at the Center of Civic Engagement / Rick M. Battistoni, Nicholas V. Longo -- 10. Civic Engagement on the Ropes? / Edward Zlotkowski -- 11. Remapping Education for Social Responsibility: Civic, Global, and U. S. Diversity / Caryn McTighe Musil -- 12. Sustained City-Campus Engagement: Developing an Epistemology for Our Time / Lorlene Hoyt -- 13. Conclusion: Creating the Democratically Engaged University-Possibilities for Constructive Action / Matthew Hartley, John Saltmarsh -- Contributors -- Index. Publisher Marketing: This work calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals.

Contributor Bio:  Saltmarsh, John John Saltmarsh is one of the founders of The Good Life Center, the Nearing's former homestead in Harborside, Maine. He is an associate professor at Northeastern University in Boston with a joint appointment in the departments of Cooperative Education and History. He has been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Feinstein Institute for Public Service for Providence College. He resides in Wayland, Massachusetts.