scholarly journals Higher Education, Community Engagement, and the Public Good: Building the Future of Continuing Education in Canada

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Budd L. Hall
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
University Community

This article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.

scholarly journals Response of Indonesian universities to the (COVID-19) pandemic – between strategy and implementation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ikhfan Haris ◽  
Afdaliah Afdaliah ◽  
Muhammad Ichsan Haris
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Social Community ◽  
The Public ◽  
The University

Escalated by mid-January 2020, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect on all aspects of society, including the education activities in higher education. Colleges and universities globally are taking various actions to contain the COVID-19 outbreak. These efforts are mainly to secure the well-being of their students and staff, as well as members of their communities. Due to the increasing number of infections has prompted a number of universities in Indonesia to participate in the fight against the virus outbreak. This article provides an overview of the role played by Indonesian universities dealing with COVID-19 pandemic and how Indonesian universities serving the public good for COVID-19 breakthroughs. The research problem of this study focuses on how the strategies developed by the university in responding to COVID-19 and their implementation to reduce the potential consequences of the pandemic impacts. Subsequently, this paper presented the responses of universities in Indonesia in addressing the COVID-19 pandemic. The forms of responses presented in this paper are academic responses, research and development responses and social community services responses. Furthermore, a conceived information of the issues and challenging of involving of universities in collaborating on solutions to crises of the coronavirus pandemic in Indonesian context were portrayed. In conclusion, this paper summarizes the contribution of Indonesian universities and its impacts in fighting deadly virus disease COVID-19.

Universities, Unjust Law, and Campus Sanctuaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-100
Author(s):  
A. Naomi Paik
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Intellectual Freedom ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Public ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Us Presidential Election

This essay examines the campus sanctuary movement that launched in response to the 2016 US presidential election. It focuses on the case of my employer to illuminate the broader context of the campus sanctuary movement's nationwide emergence, including the neoliberal evisceration of higher education and right-wing attacks on intellectual freedom and demands for social justice. Recognizing that the institution will not save us, sanctuary organizers not only demand that institutions use their resources for the public good, but they also work beyond the confines of institutions to build the resources that we need through community-based organizations.

scholarly journals Community engagement in higher education: Online information sources

2017 ◽  
Vol 78 (10) ◽  
pp. 563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Marie Gruber
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
Real World Learning ◽  
Increased Pressure

In an age of challenging public discourse and increased pressure for educational accountability, many colleges are renewing their commitments to the public purposes of higher education. In fact, presidents and chancellors at more than 450 institutions signed Campus Compact’s 30th Anniversary Action Statement1 in 2016, reaffirming their dedication to preparing students for engaged citizenship, to changing social and economic inequalities, and to contributing to their communities as place-based institutions. In practical terms, many campuses are placing increased emphasis on real-world learning experiences for students through opportunities such as service-learning, internships, and community-based research.

scholarly journals Rankings and the Public Good Role of Higher Education

2019 ◽  
pp. 7-9
Author(s):  
Ellen Hazelkorn
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Societal Impact ◽  
The Public ◽  
University Engagement ◽  
Corporate Social

Measuring university engagement or societal impact is becoming a popular way to assess the public good role of universities. Rankings have been early movers in this area, but do they tell us anything meaningful? And while it is important to ask about the role and responsibility of universities, it is about time that we asked about the corporate social responsibility (CSR) of the ranking organizations themselves, given that their real intent is to sell magazines and newspapers and/or consultancy?

scholarly journals Community-Based Research and the Faith-Based Campus

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-81
Author(s):  
Rich Janzen ◽  
Sam Reimer ◽  
Mark Chapman ◽  
Joanna Ochocka
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Education ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Faith Based ◽  
Immigrant Settlement

  Over recent decades a significant shift has been taking hold on campuses of higher education in Canada and around the world. It is a shift towards community engagement. In this article our focus is on the research aspect of community engagement, and explores how this shift towards community-based research is playing itself out on the faith-based campus. We provide examples of two Canadian faith-based universities (Crandall University and Tyndale University College & Seminary) who were involved in a two-year community-campus research partnership called “The role of churches in immigrant settlement and integration”. Reflecting on this experience we learned that, similar to other institutions of higher education, an intentional shift towards community-based research on the faith-based campus requires attention to both the internal and external drivers that support such a shift. We also learned that faith-based campuses have their own unique ethos and therefore have distinctive drivers that can be leveraged to support such a shift. While our learnings arise out of the experience of two participating universities, their applicability may be of interest to other faith-based campuses in Canada and elsewhere.

1. The Neoliberal Logic of Service-Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Megan Snider Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Community Partnerships ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Community Based ◽  
University Partnerships ◽  
Economic Changes ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Relationship

<?page nr="1"?>Abstract This article investigates the ways in which service-learning manifests within our neoliberal clime, suggesting that service-learning amounts to a foil for neoliberalism, allowing neoliberal political and economic changes while masking their damaging effects. Neoliberalism shifts the relationship between the public and the private, structures higher education, and promotes a façade of community-based university partnerships while facilitating a pervasive regime of control. This article demonstrates that service-learning amounts to an enigma of neoliberalism, making possible the privatization of the public and the individualizing of social problems while masking evidence of market-based societal control. Neoliberal service-learning distances service from teaching and learning, allows market forces to shape university-community partnerships, and privatizes the public through dispossession by accumulation.

Japan’s higher education and the public good

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Futao Huang ◽  
Tsukasa Daizen ◽  
Lilan Chen ◽  
Kiyomi Horiuchi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Good ◽  
The Public

scholarly journals A Men’s Survey: Exploring Well-Being, Healthy Relationships and Violence Prevention

2021 ◽  
pp. 106082652110188
Author(s):  
Liza Lorenzetti ◽  
Vic Lantion ◽  
David C. Este ◽  
Percy Murwisi ◽  
Jeff Halvorsen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Violence Prevention ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Healthy Relationships ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
On Line ◽  
Multiple Challenges ◽  
Research Assistants ◽  
African Canadian

The participation of men is critical to preventing domestic violence, however, there is still little understanding of the capacities and supports that men need for well-being and healthy relationships. A men’s survey was designed to explore and identify the capacities and resources required by a diverse population of Canadian men. Data was collected on-line and through trained community-based research assistants. Over 2,000 men from 20 ethno-cultural groups responded, and multiple challenges and enablers were identified. Responses from Indigenous and African Canadian men highlight the need for an intersectional lens in understanding men’s well-being and violence prevention.

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