Re-envisioning Higher Education’s Public Mission: Global Perspectives

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by  Antigoni Papadimitriou

Re-envisioning
Higher Education’s
Public Mission
Global Perspectives
Edited by
Antigoni Papadimitriou · Marius Boboc
Re-envisioning Higher Education’s Public Mission
Antigoni Papadimitriou • Marius Boboc
Editors
Re-envisioning Higher
Education’s Public
Mission
Global Perspectives
Editors
Antigoni Papadimitriou Marius Boboc
School of Education Cleveland State University
Johns Hopkins University Cleveland, OH, USA
Baltimore, MD, USA
ISBN 978-3-030-55715-7 ISBN 978-3-030-55716-4 (eBook)
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> This collection of chapters, most of which are based on presentations at the
15th International Conference on Higher Education Reform -
“Reinventing the Public Mission of Higher Education: Policies and
Practice”—at Johns Hopkins University in Fall 2018, is dedicated to all
colleagues and community members around the globe who embrace public
mission initiatives in higher education
>
>
> In memory
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> This book is also dedicated to Paul Benneworth for his work related to
community engagement
C
ontents
1 Introduction: Examining Higher Education Institutions
Public Mission Initiatives Through the Lens of
Organizational Perspective 1
Antigoni Papadimitriou and Marius Boboc
2 Recharging Higher Education’s Social Responsibility via
Anchor Institutions 15
Marius Boboc
3 Public-Public Partnerships: Expanding Higher Education
Capacity Through Economic Redevelopment 35
Michael W. Klein
4 Revitalizing Northwood: Morgan State University’s Role
in Economic and Community Development 59
Sean Robinson
5 Developing Faculty Identity as a Community Engaged
Scholar: An Unexamined Barrier to Promoting the Public
Mission 77
Carey Borkoski and Sherri K. Prosser
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6 University-Engagement Research: Application of a Mixed
Method Design of Community-Based Participatory
Research for Communities’ Well-Being 97
Antigoni Papadimitriou, Rosalyn W. Stewart, and
Constantine Frangakis
7 The “Community” in Community College: Lorain
County Community College’s Strategic Visioning Model 119
Marcia Ballinger
8 Exploring University Engagement Through an
International Lens: The Case of Extensión Universitaria
in Panama 141
Mariana León
9 Higher Education and the Commitment to Its Public
Mission: The Case of Extension Projects in a Brazilian
University 169
Ana Ivenicki
10 Piloting the TEFCE Community Engagement Toolbox at
the University of Twente 187
Thomas Farnell, Anete Veidemane, and Don Westerheijden
11 Public Engagement, Children, and the Pleasure
of Knowledge: The Experience of Kidsuniversity
Verona, Italy 205
Marta Ugolini, Fabio Cassia, and Nicola Cobelli
12 Social Responsibility in Higher Education: The Case of
Ethiopia 229
Leon Cremonini and Abebaw Yirga Adamu
CONTENTS ix
13 Global Trend and Institutional Practices of Knowledge
Exchange Activities in Universities: The Changing
Academic Profession in Hong Kong 251
Hei-hang Hayes Tang
14 Conclusion: Re-Imagining Higher Education Institutions
Public Mission Initiatives Through the Lens of
Organizational Perspective 275
Antigoni Papadimitriou and Marius Boboc
Index 291
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otes on ontributors
Abebaw Yirga Adamu is Associate Professor of Education at Addis
Ababa University (AAU), Ethiopia. He holds a PhD in Education and
Society—University of Tampere, Finland, a master degree in Lifelong
Learning Policy and Management—University of Aarhus, Denmark, and a
master degree in Multicultural and Multilingual Education—
AAU. Dr. Abebaw has been the Director of Ethiopian Institute for
Higher Education, AAU, and Director of Quality Assurance at the
Ethiopian Institute of Architecture, Building Construction and City
Development, AAU, He is NAFSA Global Dialogue Fellow
(2019–2021), UASP/IREX Research Management Fellow—2019,
and advisory board member of the Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences.
Dr. Abebaw’s research on higher education focuses on diversity, qual-
ity, internationalization, harmonization, and lifelong learning.
Marcia Ballinger PhD, has over 30 years in community college leader-
ship roles advancing student success, workforce and economic develop-
ment, strategic planning, and advancement. She holds a PhD in Community
College Leadership from Walden University, an MBA from Kent State
University, and a BA in Journalism from Indiana University of
Pennsylvania. She serves as Lorain County Community College’s
fifth President and previously held positions as Provost, Vice
President for Strategic Development, and Vice President LCCC’s
Foundation. She is an inaugural member of the Aspen Institute’s
Presidential Fellowship. Under her leadership, LCCC garnered the
top two national honors for excellence in student success by the
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American Association of Community Colleges and Achieving
the Dream.
Marius Boboc is Professor of Education at Cleveland State University in
Cleveland, Ohio, US. He is a Vice Provost for Academic Planning. With a
background in English Education, Teacher Leadership, and Curriculum
and Instruction, his teaching includes undergraduate courses in gen-
eral instructional methods and assessment, graduate classes in cur-
riculum planning, classroom management, and conflict resolution
education as well as doctoral-level courses in urban education theory
and organizational leadership and change. His published research—
peer-reviewed books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference
proceedings—gravitates toward postmodern education, online
instruction, K-12 curriculum, anchor institutions and community
development, leadership and planning in higher education, and urban
education reform.
Carey Borkoski is an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University
where she teaches research methods and advises doctoral students in their
online EdD. Her research explores the role of communities, bridging
media, and storytelling in facilitating student onboarding, cultivate
belonging, and students’ scholarly identity. She has written about strate-
gies to cultivate belonging in our learning communities, conditions to
support identity formation, and the positive relationship between
social presence and student experiences. Dr. Borkoski is collecting
data to articulate first-year, online doctoral students’ identity devel-
opment. She has disseminated her work in a variety of publications,
presented at national conferences, and shared her own journey to
belonging as well as her research and teaching with teacher, student,
and leader groups.
Fabio Cassia PhD in Marketing, is Associate Professor of Management
at the University of Verona (Italy), where he is in charge for the Quality
Assurance of a Master’s degree. His main research interests include
service quality and marketing, hospitality and tourism management,
business-to-business marketing and branding, and international
business development. He is member of the Editorial Committee of
Sinergie Italian Journal of Management, of the Editorial Review Board
of The TQM Journal, and of the Review of International Business and
Strategy. His works have been published in several international journals