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University and Communities in Partnership

Exploring the Roots and Current Trends of Higher Education Community Engagement in the United States

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These areas of examination inform the evolving nature of university-community relations, and they reflect the cornerstones for emerging models of civic engagement that seek to integrate the triumvirate mission of teaching, research, and service. This chapter addresses the historic roots and current trends in campus community relations that have begun to shape a new level of town-gown engagement and partnership, and it begins to address how we can assess the impact universities are having on their communities.

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    W. James Jacob

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    Stewart E. Sutin

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    John C. Weidman

  4. University of Pittsburgh, USA

    John L. Yeager

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Soska, T.M. (2015). University and Communities in Partnership. In: Jacob, W.J., Sutin, S.E., Weidman, J.C., Yeager, J.L. (eds) Community Engagement in Higher Education. Pittsburgh Studies In Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-007-9_7

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