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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789609903321

Titolo

The engaged university : international perspectives on civic engagement / / David Watson. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

0-415-82422-2

1-283-10339-7

9786613103390

1-136-73844-4

0-203-81876-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

International studies in higher education

Classificazione

EDU000000EDU001000EDU015000

AL 20100

AL 46950

DM 3000

Altri autori (Persone)

WatsonDavid <1949->

Disciplina

378.1/03

Soggetti

Community and college

Higher education and state

Education, Higher - Social aspects

Education and globalization

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. University-community relationships : the long view -- pt. 2. The engaged university -- pt. 3. An engaged university moment.

Sommario/riassunto

"University civic engagement encompasses a broad range of efforts to directly apply university resources to the communities and societies in which they are located. These activities include applied research, community service learning courses, education and training of non-matriculated groups, community development partnerships, and student volunteering. The Engaged University is a fully empirical account of a genuinely global movement of higher education institutions to increase university civic engagement. Based on the self-assessment policies and practices of an international network of over 20 universities committed to social and civic service, it examines the



everyday their objectives, management and achievements. This timely volume offers three special contributions to the literature on higher education policy and practice: an historical overview of university foundation, which is demonstrated as having almost invariably incorporated a context-specific element of social purpose, together with a survey of how these "founding" intentions have fared in different systems of higher education; a contemporary account of the policy and practice of universities all over the world seeking to re-engage with this social purpose; and an overview of generic issues which emerge for the "engaged university.""--

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910892862503321

Titolo

Telecommunications

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dedham, Mass., : Horizon House, ©1967-©2001

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

384

Soggetti

Telecommunication

TELECOMMUNICATION INDUSTRY

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.

Volumes for <1979>- called: International ed.