The White Paper on Higher Education (1997), urged Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in South Africa to avail their expertise and infrastructure for community engagement initiatives in the interests of demonstrating social responsibility and a commitment to the development of communities (Council on Higher Education, 2006). This research monograph is based on a response from the University of the Free State (UFS) in enhancing community engagement via a specific support initiative in previously disadvantaged schools in the Free State province of South Africa. Furthermore, the...

The Holy Mark is a dramatic monologue told from the point of view of a psychologically disturbed Catholic priest who continually rationalizes and justifies his relationships with teenaged boys. It combines the elements of a psychological case study and dysfunctional New Orleans Italian family saga. The story begins with the narrator "in exile" in a tiny North Louisiana parish where he has been reassigned by the Church hierarchy in New Orleans, his city of birth, and where he suffers the humiliation of celebrating mass in a leaky trailer. About to mark his Silver Jubilee as a priest, he...