Full Description
By exploring a normative model of universities as institutions with a responsibility to contribute to the public good, this book addresses the leadership, management and public policy challenges of maximizing higher education's contribution to civil society. It codifies the extensive academic literature in this field and reviews higher education and other public policies that both drive and inhibit civic engagement both globally and locally.Comparing experiences and reports of an institutional developmental process undertaken in eight distinctive universities in four European countries and guided by the editors the book explores key questions such as: what is the Civic University, and how can we use this concept to understand higher education's engagement with the outside world in varying institutional and geographical contexts? What are the appropriate internal structures and mechanisms required for a university to effectively encourage and support civic engagement activity for the greatest societal impact?How can embedding civic engagement in individual institutions and wider systems be facilitated by changes in higher education and related policies at the sub-national, national and European level?
Succinct and discerning, The Civic University will be of great interest to academics working in the fields of higher education, science and innovation studies and community and city development. It will also appeal to university leaders and organisers of institutional leadership development programmes along with city leaders and policy makers at national and international levels.
Contents
Contents:
Part I: Why the Civic University?
1. Introduction: Why the Civic University?
John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton and Paul Vallance
2. The Historical Roots and Development of the Civic University
Paul Vallance
3. Contemporary Debates Part I: Theorising Civic Engagement
Ellen Hazelkorn
4. Contemporary Debates Part II: Initiatives, and Governance and Organisational Structures
Ellen Hazelkorn
5. National Higher Education Systems and Civic Universities
John Goddard
Part II: The Civic Universities
6. Leading a Fundamentally Detuned Choir: University of Tampere, Finland - A Civic University?
Markku Sotarauta
7. Aalto University - Art and Science Meet Technology and Business
Martti Raevaara, Seppo Laukkanen, Markku Markkula and Esa Ahonen
8. From Colonisation to Collaboration: Challenges of Repositioning Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, Within its Community
Simone Cameron-Coen and Shane Allwright
9. Dublin Institute of Technology - Moving, Merging, and Managing the Civic Engagement Mission
Julie Bernard and Catherine Bates
10. The University of Groningen: An Engaging University
Han Borg, Annemieke J.B.E. Galema, Henk A.J. Mulder and Simone Steenbeek
11. The Civic University in Amsterdam
Arne Brentjes and Selma Hinderdael
12. Newcastle University and the Development of the Concept of a World-class Civic University
Chris Brink and John Hogan
13. University College London: Leveraging the Civic Capacity of 'London's Global University'
Jean-Paul D. Addie and James Paskins
Part III: The Leadership and Management Challenges
14. Institutional Challenges and Tensions
Louise Kempton
15. Postscript: The Civic University as a Normative Model?
John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton and Paul Vallance
Appendix A: Key institutional data
Appendix B: Tools for understanding the civic university
Index
