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Foreword.

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

Part I: A Broad Persective.

1 Big Questions for Engaging Departments (Kevin Kecskes).

2 Civic Engagement: A Broad Perspective (Richard Battistoni).

3 Characteristics of an Engaged Department: Design and Assessment (John Saltmarsh, Sherril Gelmon).

Part II: Departmental Approaches: National Exemplars.

Large-Scale Change.

4 From Rogue Program to Poster Child: A Department’s Shaping of a University’s Agenda (Paula T. Silver, John E. Poulin, Stephen C. Wilhite, Center for Social Work Education at Widener University).

5 Samford University’s Communication Studies: Seizing an Opportunity (Charlotte Brammer, Rhonda Parker, Department of Communication at Samford University).

6 Geology, Children, and Institutional Change

in Southern California (Jay R. Yett, Department of Geology at Orange Coast College).

Long-Term Commitment.

7 Engagement in the Arts: Commitment to an Urban Experience (Susan Agre-Kippenhan, Elisabeth Charman, Department of Art at Portland State University).

8 Sustaining a Service-Learning Program: An English Department’s Commitment to Service (Marybeth Mason, Pam Davenport, Department of English at Chandler-Gilbert Community College).

9 The Spelman College Total Person Commits to Positive Social Change (Cynthia Neal Spence, Daryl White, Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Spelman College).

10 Nursing Excellence: Community Engagement Through Service-Learning (Georgia Narsavage, Evelyn Duffy, Deborah Lindell, Marilyn J. Lotas, Carol Savrin, Yea-Jyh Chen, Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University).

11 Community Service-Learning, Research,

and the Public Intellectual (Leda Cooks, Erica Scharrer, Michael Morgan, Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst).

Mission Alignment.

12 Fostering Engagement for Social Justice: The Social Justice Analysis Concentration in Sociology at Georgetown University (Sam Marullo, Kathleen Maas Weigert, Joseph Palacios, Department of Sociology at Georgetown University).

13 “UCLA in LA”: The Engaging Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies (Reynaldo F. Macías, Kathy O’Byrne, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles).

14 From Engagement to Marriage: A Systems Persective With Formal and Durable Commitments to Service-Learning (Michael G. Laurent, Judith J. McIntosh, Rie Rogers Mitchell, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling at California State University, Northridge).

Part III:Meta-Level Strategies.

15 Continuums of Engagement at Portland State University: An Institution-Wide Initiative to Support Departmental Collaboration for the Common Good (Kevin Kecskes, Amy Spring).

16 A Journey of System-Wide Engagement (Season Eckardt, Erika F. Randall, Lori J. Vogelgesang).

17 Engaged Disciplines: How National Disciplinary Societies Support the Scholarship of Engagement (Sherwyn P. Morreale, James L. Applegate).

Part IV:An Emerging Vision.

18 The Engaged Department in the Context of Academic Change (Edward Zlotkowski, John Saltmarsh).

Appendix A: Engaged Department Strategic Planning Matrix.

Appendix B: Connective Pathways for Engaged Departments.

Appendix C: Engaged Department Resources.

Index.

A highly useful mix of theory and practice to inform the next stage of the civic engagement movement in higher education—involving departments.
—Elizabeth L. Hollander, Executive Director, Campus Compact