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Direct linkRenee Sedlacek Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The central challenge of social impact education within higher education is the lack of a shared framework to unify language and practice across an institution. One framework gaining popularity among Community Engagement Professionals (CEPs) is the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement. The purpose of this basic qualitative study was to…
Descriptors: Social Change, Social Influences, Citizen Participation, Public Service
Peer reviewedMoffett, Paul; Weare, William H., Jr. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2022
To improve customer service, some academic libraries have used a service philosophy statement to foster a shared understanding of service standards. The authors conducted semistructured interviews with heads of public services at academic libraries to understand how the service philosophy statement was used in practice and its impact on staff…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, User Satisfaction (Information), Library Services, Institutional Mission
Carpentier, Vincent; Courtois, Aline – Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, 2022
Drawing on 45 semi-structured interviews conducted in four public universities as part of an international comparative project, we examine the cultural, political, social and economic forces at play in the way the 'public good' is perceived, translated and debated within the French higher education context. Our findings indicate that a variety of…
Descriptors: State Universities, Comparative Education, Higher Education, Economic Factors
Download full textDouglass, John Aubrey – Center for Studies in Higher Education, 2016
In the face of the dominant World Class University rhetoric and ranking paradigm, most academic leaders and their academic communities have had difficulty conceptualizing and articulating their grander purpose and multiple engagements with society. Some seem to wait for the next ministerial edict to help or push them toward greater societal…
Descriptors: Universities, Educational Development, Educational History, Educational Research
Meredith, Margaret – Cambridge Journal of Education, 2021
This article contributes to conceptualisations of public engagement as part of academic practice in higher education. It uses Hannah Arendt's idea of action in the public sphere, which is underpinned by the belief that all have the capacity to contribute to the renewal of the world, and that we are equally different. It argues that public…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Social Responsibility, Educational Philosophy, Conferences (Gatherings)
Al-Bulushi, Yaqoob Dur Mohammed – ProQuest LLC, 2017
The Oman government developed a vision to transform the nation into a sustainable knowledge society by supporting information and communication technologies to improve government services (ITA, n.d.). According to a United Nations (2012) report, Oman ranks 64th worldwide in e-government readiness, the lowest compared to other countries in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Leadership Role, Public Service, Qualitative Research
