This important book explores the various ways that higher education contributes to the realization of significant public ends and examines how leaders can promote and enhance their contribution to the social charter through new policies and best practices. It also shows how other sectors of society, government agencies, foundations, and individuals can partner with institutions of higher education to promote the public good. Higher Education for the Public Good includes contributions from leaders in the field—many of whom participated in dialogues hosted by the National Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good. These leaders are responsible for creating successful strategies, programs, and efforts that foster the public’s role in higher education.
About the Author
Dr. Adrianna Kezar is editor for the ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report Series, faculty director for the National Association for Women in Higher Education’s (NAWE) Institute for Emerging Women Leaders in Higher Education, and former director of the ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education. Her most recent books include: Understanding and Facilitating Change in the 21st Century: Recent Research and Conceptualizations (2001) by Jossey-Bass and Taking the Reigns of Change by Greenwood Press (2003). She is a senior fellow with the MacGregor Burns Leadership Academy and has been a fellow with the Salzburg Seminars.
Dr. Tony Chambers is Associate Director of the Kellogg Forum on Higher Education for the Public Good and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Higher and Postsecondary Education at the University of Michigan. Formerly the Program Officer and Founding Director of the Fetzer Fellows Program at the John Fetzer Institute, a non-profit operating foundation that explores the relationship between mind, body and spirit, he is a Senior Fellow at the James MacGregor Burns Academy of Leadership at the University of Maryland-College Park, National Advisor with the Heartland Center for Leadership Development in Lincoln, Nebraska, and a Fellow with the Salzburg Seminars.
