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Information-Age Populism: Higher Education as a Civic Learning Organization (PDF 3.42MB)
By Harry C. Boyte
We need a lot of public soul and public muscle in America today. We also need a different kind of politics that is public and productive, empowering, relational, contextual, educative, and expansive in vision. Insofar as institutions of higher education become civic learning organizations, they can be key players in effecting this transformation.

Public Engagement in a Civic Mission, Download PDF (2.05MB)
By Harry C. Boyte
The public work philosophy shifts attention to the question of work itself. It explores the public dimensions of professions, disciplines, and individual faculty experiences–and the erosion of those dimensions.

Creating More Public Space, Download PDF (1.05MB)
By David Mathews
Many Americans believe they must band together and act as a public....They see themselves, not as clients of government or customers of public institutions, but as political actors who must be busy in public work. (For additional writing by David Mathews, visit http://www.kettering.org).

Shutting the Public Out of Politics, Download PDF (6.6MB)
By Claire Snyder
Why does the public have such a limited role in political decision making? Why is our notion of citizenship often nothing more than voting?

Institutional Identity and Social Responsibility, Download PDF (2.61MB)
By William Sullivan
Can the academy reinvigorate its central mission amid difficult and confusing circumstances? Higher education has chosen such resourcefulness in the past ... renewing its dedication to bringing the powers of cultivated intellect to bear on the economic, social, and cultural life of American democracy.