Introduction. Patterns of the public mission in colleges and universities
Chapter 1. Recharging higher education’s social responsibility via anchor institutions as knowledge hubs of opportunity
Chapter 2. Public-Private Partnerships: Community Engagement through Economic Redevelopment
Chapter 3. From Northwood Plaza to Northwood Commons: Morgan State University’s Role in Community, Economic, and Business Development
Chapter 4. University engagement and methodological concerns and challenges for developing Community Based Participation Collaborative Research
Chapter 5. Cultivating a culture of faculty belonging: Exploring identity, congruence, and job choice theory at research universities
Chapter 6. Vision Network: A community college’s process to plan and engage community
Chapter 7. Higher Education and the Commitment to its Public Mission: The Case of Extension Projects in a Brazilian University
Chapter 8. Conceptualization of the university’s third mission in Panama
Chapter 9. A Multi-dimensional transparency tool for Community Engagement: TEFCE pilot at the University of Twente, the Netherlands
Chapter 10. Community engagement in Italian higher education: University of Verona case study
Chapter 11. Is Being Socially Responsible Always Responsible? Contextualizing University Social Responsibility: An Ethiopian Perspective
Chapter 12. The Entrepreneurial State and the Public Mission of Higher Education Reinvented: Examining Knowledge Transfer Policies of Hong Kong’s Universities and Impact of the Academic Profession
Chapter 13. Conclusions and Recommendations for Future Research in University’s Public Mission
Antigoni Papadimitriou is Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership in the College of Education and Behavioral Sciences at Western Kentucky University, USA. She also holds a courtesy appointment at Johns Hopkins University, USA, to complete two internal grants focused on university-community engaged research and social change.
Marius Boboc is Professor of Education in the College of Education and Human Services and Provost for Academic Planning at Cleveland State University, USA.
This book covers initiatives related to higher education’s public mission such as university-community engagement, knowledge transfer, economic development, and social responsibility, using empirical and conceptual cases in the US, South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In order to develop a better understanding of public mission initiatives in higher education across the globe, the volume editors developed a theoretical framework emerging from organizational theory. Each chapter analysis uses both external environmental elements (political, economic, sociocultural, and technological), as well as internal institutional elements (mission, vision, leadership, and governance). Finally, each chapter highlights issues related to implementation and challenges with the intent of prompting readers to consider appropriate ways in which to adopt some of the lessons learned by the contributing authors.Chapter 10 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.m.