Archives - Suggested Readings

Tom Ehrlich, Editor, Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, Oryx Press in association with American Council on Education, 2000. This is the best single volume, including a collection of articles by many leaders in the civic engagement movement in higher education. This title is held in Wilson Library and the call # is LC1091 .C5289 2000

Tom Bender and Carl Schorske, Editors, American Academic Culture in Transformation: Fifty Years, Four Disciplines, Princeton University Press, 1998. Originally a special issue of Daedalus magazine, this is also an important volume of collected essays by leading scholars infour disciplines (economics, philosophy, political science and English). Authors include Robert Solow, David Kreps, Jose Saldivar, Catherine Gallagher, Charles Lindblom, Hilary Putnam, Ira Katznelson, and others. They detail the changes that have taken place over the past two generations. The essays show vividly the loss of public engagement, and the costs of that loss. This book is held in Wilson Library and the call # is LA227.4 A44 1998

The July-August issue of Academe, journal of the AAUP. This is a special issue on civic engagement. This journal is held in both the Law Library and Wilson Library

The 2000 volume of Higher Education Exchange. Higher Education Exchange, a publication of the Kettering Foundation, is an annual collection of essays about the movement for renewed public purpose and civic engagement. This issue includes important essays on public scholarship, the civic roots of a variety of professions, public work, and the growing number of public intellectuals working in other contexts. This title is held in Wilson Library and the call number is LA227.4 .H525x 2000

The Good Society special two part symposium on Commonwealth, Civil society and Democratic Renewal, 1999-2000, v. 9 no. 2 (1999). The Good Society is a journal of applied political theory and philosophy published by the University of Maryland. This two part symposium on civil society, citizenship and civic engagement shows much of the state of theoretical and philosophical argument about these topics, and has a number of essays that address the role of higher education in democracy. It begins with an essay by Harry Boyte, "Off the Playground of Civil Society," reflecting much of the theory building work and action research that has taken place at the University of Minnesota, and has responses and essays by Benjamin Barber, Elizabeth Minnich, Elizabeth Hollander, Ira Harkavy and a number of others.

The Compact Reader, May, 2000 (available from the Center for Democracy and Citizenship) includes a number of "best essays" published over the past two years on the ways the definition and focus of civic engagement has shifted from "service" to "citizenship" and the public meanings of work.

The Drama of Diversity and Democracy: Higher Education and American Commitments, is the publication from a two year project on diversity by the Association of American Colleges and Universities, reflecting a number of discussions that have involved leading scholars and public intellectuals concerned with questions of diversity, directed by the feminist political philosopher Elizabeth Minnich (who also has a long essay in The Good Society symposium). This title is held in Wilson Library and the call number is LA227.4 .D73 1995

The higher education section of the Center for Democracy and Citizenship web page includes articles by Scott Peters, formerly a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, on the land grant civic tradition. The address is www.publicwork.org/edu