The local democratic mission of HE: Lessons from the US

How can we affirm and develop the public purpose of higher education? How can higher education institutions further democracy and inclusion by working with their local communities?

These are the questions that a recent white paper produced by the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships with support from the Teagle Foundation seeks to answer.

Edited by Ira Harkavy and Rita A Hodges, the white paper focuses on urban universities in the United States, which also provides the case studies that make up a substantial part of the paper. Nevertheless, the study is of interest well beyond the cities of the United States.
 

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