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Democracy, Civic Participation, and the University: A Comparative Study of Civic Engagement on Five Campuses

Susan A. Ostrander

Tufts University

This research is a comparative study of civic engagement on five campuses. Based on site visits, interviews on campuses and in host communities, document analysis, and literature reviews, four key findings emerged: (a) shifting and varying emphases in main components of engagement; (b) local factors that facilitate and present barriers to engagement; (c) intellectual rationales and projects to drive new knowledge, involve faculty, and institutionalize and sustain engagement; and (d) new organizational structures to link the campus and community and share power and resources. The argument is made for a dynamic and developmental framework that acknowledges multiplicity and flow. The article concludes with an initial mapping of changing relationships between local factors and civic-engagement program emphases and an articulation of three main current theories of engagement that a developmental framework would take into account.

Key Words: democracy • civic engagement • university civic engagement • service learning • community-university partnerships

Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 1, 74-93 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0899764003260588
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