| @quot;To Serve a Larger Purpose@quot;: Engagement for Democracy and the Transformation of Higher Education Subjects: Education Higher -- United States; Democracy and education -- United States; Educational leadership -- United States; Educational planning -- United States; "To Serve a Larger Purpose" calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals. John Saltmarsh is Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education at the University of Massachusetts Boston and is on the faculty of the Higher Education Administration Doctoral Program in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development. |