How can scholars reconnect themselves???and their students???to higher education??'s historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good?

Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography???and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement???these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives...

How can scholars reconnect themselves--and their students--to higher education's historic but much diluted mission to work for the public good?

Through the lenses of personal reflection and auto-ethnography--and drawing on such rich philosophical foundations as the Spanish tradition of higher learning, the holistic Aztec concept of education, the Hispanic notion of bien educado, and the activist principles of the Chicano movement-these writers explore the intersections of private and public good, and how the tension between them has played out in their own lives and the commitments...