University Leadership in Creating Equity-Oriented Communities of Expertise: Ethical, Epistemic, and Efficacy Issues

Session Submission Type: Symposium

Abstract

Some research universities have launched major initiatives to more directly link their scholarly enterprises to community-based knowledge production in order to collaboratively solve the pressing problems of the age. These initiatives require transformed research, teaching, and service missions and corresponding changes in the structure and operations of multiple core university functions. They also require transformed relationships with a broad range of community partners, from schools, government agencies, community advocacy and service organizations, to private businesses. These initiatives raise complex ethical and epistemic issues as well as practical challenges that bear on their efficacy. This symposium examines these initiatives focusing particularly on the experience of two universities – one private with a well-established record, and another a large multi-campus state system with a new initiative in its second year.

Sub Unit

• Division J - Postsecondary Education / Section 6: Society, Culture, and Change

Chair

• Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

Papers

• Ethical and Epistemic Issues in Equity-Oriented Collaborative Research: Challenges for University Leadership of Public Deliberation - Ronald David Glass, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Scholarship in Action: Valuing Diversity and the Public Mission of the Private University - Nancy Cantor, Syracuse University

• Scholarship in Action: Mission, Leadership and Transition in Education - Kal Alston, Syracuse University

• Refocusing Universities on the Public Good: A Theory of Action - Susan Sturm, Columbia Law School

Discussant

• Timothy K. Eatman, Syracuse University