Creating citizens : liberal arts, civic engagement, and the land-grant tradition / edited by Brigitta R. Brunner.

"In Creating Citizens, professors and administrators at Auburn University's College of Liberal Arts recount valuable, first-hand experiences teaching Community and Civic Engagement (CCE). They demonstrate that, contrary to many expectations, CCE instruction both complements the mission of liberal arts curricula and powerfully advances the fundamental mission of American land-grand institutions. The nine essays in Creating Citizens offer structures for incorporating CCE initiatives into university programs, instructional methods and techniques, and numerous case studies and examples undertaken at Auburn University but applicable at any university. Many contributors describe their own rewarding experiences with CCE and emphasize the ways outreach efforts reinvigorate their teaching or research. Creating Citizens recounts the foundation of land-grant institutions by the Morrill Act of 1862. Their mission is to instruct in agriculture, military science, and mechanics, but these goals augmented rather than replaced an education in the classics, or liberal arts. Land-grant institutions, therefore, have a special calling to provide a broad spectrum of society with an education that not only enriched the personal lives of their students, but the communities they are a part of. Creating Citizens demonstrates the important opportunities CCE instruction represents to any university but are especially close to the heart of the mission of land-grant colleges. In open societies, the role and mission of public institutions of higher learning that are supported by public subsidies are perennial subjects of interest and debate. Creating Citizens provides valuable insights of interest to educators, education administrators, students, and policy makers involved in the field of higher education."-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Engaged Scholarship's Place within the Tenure and Promotion Process / Brigitta R. Brunner -- A Profile of a University Community and Civic Engagement Political Science Internship / William E. Kelly -- Community Inquiry in the Writing Classroom : Bridging Liberal Arts Education with the Work of Community and Civic Engagement / Chad Wickman -- Bridges across Wire / Kyes Stevens with James Emmett Ryan -- An Exploration of Outreach Opportunities for College German Programs in Alabama / Iulia Pittman and Anne-Katrin Gramberg -- Nobody Is Telling Our Story / Nan Fairley -- Culturing Connection, Growing Community : The Art in Agriculture Initiative / Christopher McNulty and Barb Bondy -- Group Parent-Child Interaction Therapy: Community-Based Research with a Family Focus / Elizabeth Brestan-Knight and Timothy S. Thornberry Jr. -- Community and Civic Engagement, Civil Society and Anthropological Research in India / Kelly D. Alley.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 25, 2016).

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