This volume of New Directions for Teaching and Learning offers insights into how and why public scholarship has grown and is beginning to sustain itself at Penn State University and beyond. The research and writing contained here was generated by faculty and graduate students active in Penn State's Laboratory for Public Scholarship and Democracy.

The chapters in this issue attempt to:

• Examine the constitutional roots of public scholarship
• Distinguish between public scholarship and service
• Propose a framework for researching individual,...