Engaging departments
Subtitle: moving faculty culture from private to public, individual to collective focus for the common good
By: Kevin Kecskes, editor.
Contributors: Kecskes, Kevin.
Publisher: Anker Pub. Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bolton, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Universities and colleges -- United States -- Public services; Universities and colleges -- United States -- Departments; Education, Higher -- Aims and objectives -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Big questions for engaging departments / Kevin Kecskes; title: Civic engagement: a broad perspective / Richard Battistoni; title: Characteristics of an engaged department: design and assessment / John Saltmarsh, Sherril Gelmon; title: From rogue program to poster child: a department's shaping of a university's agenda / Paula T. Silver, John E. Poulin, Stephen C. Wilhite; title: Samford University's communication studies: seizing an opportunity / Charlotte Brammer, Rhonda Parker; title: Geology, children, and institutional change in Southern California / Jay R. Yett; title: Engagement in the arts: commitment to an urban experience / Susan Agre-Kippenhan, Elisabeth Charman; title: Sustaining a service-learning program: an English department's commitment to service / Marybeth Mason, Pam Davenport; title: The Spelman College total person commits to positive social change / Cynthia Neal Spence, Daryl White; title: Nursing excellence: community engagement through service-learning / Georgia Narsavage ... [et al.]; title: Community service-learning, research, and the public intellectual / Leda Cooks, Erica Scharrer, Michael Morgan; title: Fostering engagement for social justice: the social justice analysis concentration in sociology at Georgetown University / Sam Marullo, Kathleen Maas Weigert, Joseph Palacios; title: "UCLA in LA": the engaging department of Chicana and Chicano studies; title: Reynaldo F. Macias, Kathy O'Byrne; title: From engagement to marriage: a systems perspective with formal and durable commitments to service-learning / Michael G. Laurent, Judith J. McIntosh, Rie Rogers Mitchell; title: Continuums of engagement at Portland State University: an institution-wide initiative to support department collaboration for the common good / Kevin Kecskes, Amy Spring; title: A journey of system-wide engagement / Season Eckardt, Erika F. Randall, Lori J. Vogelgesang; title: Engaged disciplines: how national disciplinary societies support the scholarship of engagement / Sherwyn P. Morreale, James L. Applegate; title: The engaged department in the context of academic change / Edward Zlotkowski, John Saltmarsh.