Description
How to Catalyze Solutions for the World’s Most Pressing Challenges
Academics like to think of their work as relevant, but the biases and bureaucracies of universities, their cultures of insularity, hubris, and elitism, rarely encourage or reward external impacts. This means the traditional university model is underperforming relative to its social and environmental potential.
Students are demanding a new approach. Passive engagement is no longer acceptable to communities that surround and support universities. And the factors shaping our collective future, such as climate change, are volatile and urgent.
To address these realities and opportunities, the next phase of academic reforms must build toward the broad institutionalization of engaged scholarship. We call this model The Engaged University.
Beyond the Academy (2022). Edited by B.L. Keeler and C. Locke. Guidebook for the Engaged University: Best Practices for Reforming Systems of Reward, Fostering Engaged Leadership, and Promoting ActionOriented Scholarship. Available: http://beyondtheacademynetwork.org/guidebook/