This volume argues for reexamination of the field of community engagement, suggests that the most effective way forward requires rethinking the structures of traditional higher education, and points to the growing emergence of evidence-based best practices that can catalyze a renaissance in community engagement and in higher education.
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"Deepening Community Engagement in Higher Education: Forging New Pathways explores strategies for advancing colleges and universities' engagement of students, faculty, and institutional resources in communities. This volume points to strategies to make this work deep, pervasive, integrated, and developmental. The chapters share perspectives, frameworks, knowledge, and practice of more than a dozen institutions of higher education, drawing on connections to more than two decades' experience in the Bonner network. Perspectives from these campuses and respected scholars and practitioners in the field present proven models for student leadership and development, sustained partnerships, faculty engagement, and institutionalizing campus centers"--
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