Higher Education Exchange 2015

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This annual publication serves as a forum for new ideas and dialogue between scholars and the larger public. Essays explore ways that students, administrators, and faculty can initiate and sustain an ongoing conversation about the public life they share.

The Higher Education Exchange is founded on a thought articulated by Thomas Jefferson in 1820: “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.”

In the tradition of Jefferson, the Higher Education Exchange agrees that a central goal of higher education is to help make democracy possible by preparing citizens for public life. The Higher Education Exchange is part of a movement to strengthen higher education’s democratic mission and foster a more democratic culture throughout American society.

Working in this tradition, the Higher Education Exchange publishes interviews, case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. The Exchange is edited by David W. Brown and Deborah Witte.

Item Details

Page Count: 
86
Published Date: 
2015
Product Language: 
English
Category: 
Higher Education
Foreword by Deborah Witte  ( PDF )
The Public/Academic Disconnect by David W. Brown  ( PDF )
Reinventing Citizenship as Public Work: Civic Learning for the Working World by Harry C. Boyte  ( PDF )
Community Colleges and Civic Learning: An Interview by Bernie Ronan  ( PDF )
The University Role in Civic Engagement: Serving as a Spark to Community Building by Christa Daryl Slaton  ( PDF )
Living Democracy: A Project for Students and Citizens by Mark Wilson, Nan Fairley  ( PDF )
Tales from Anti-Civic U by Claire Snyder-Hall  ( PDF )
Changing Public Culture: An Interview by Marguerite S. Shaffer  ( PDF )
Higher Education as a Democratic Movement? by David Mathews  ( PDF )

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