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A “Civic Mission” for the University: Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Participatory Research

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Higher Education and Civic Engagement

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This chapter is built around three nested ideas. First, that higher education institutions have an ethical obligation to contribute to the common good, and that this obligation is historically encompassed within the idea of a “civic mission for the university.” Second, that the relatively new idea of engaged scholarship provides a conceptual umbrella for organizing that civic mission. Third, that community-based participatory research provides one example of how we might operationalize the concept of engaged scholarship.

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Cuthill, M. (2012). A “Civic Mission” for the University: Engaged Scholarship and Community-Based Participatory Research. In: McIlrath, L., Lyons, A., Munck, R. (eds) Higher Education and Civic Engagement. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137074829_6

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