Engaged Universities
Lessons from the Land-Grant Universities and Extension
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9753577 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George R Mcdowell (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 585 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 31-50 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716202238565 |
| OpenAlex | W2124534724 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 5 |
Engagement is the vogue of relevant scholars into the twenty-first century. Yet there are concerns that scholarly objectivity requires detachment from society. The American experience with scholarly engagement comes from Land-Grant universities and extension. The Land-Grant principle emerged from the mandate to the Land-Grant colleges to improve the nation’s agriculture. Agricultural science has been hugely productive because of the Land-Grant principle. The principle is general to all scholarship. The Land-Grant principle gives both intellectual and political power to engagement. Scholarship is made better substantially through the test of workability, a dimension of scholarly objectivity. The scholar is also made more skillful. The engagement making possible the test of workability makes the scholarship more relevant. Institutionalized access to the workable, relevant knowledge for those who need it generates substantial political power. At a time when universities, particularly public research universities, are seeking public support for more than their teaching, the strategies suggested by the Land-Grant principle are instructive
Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Higher education · Land grant · Mandate · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public engagement · Public relations · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Law · Public Administration · Service-Learning and Community Engagement
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Superweed amaranth
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Building an Infrastructure to Support the Use of Government Administrative Data for Program Performance and Social Science Research
Community engagement
A Manifesto for a Progressive Land-Grant Mission in an Authoritarian Populist Era
| Unique citing works | 13 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,93 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2025 (14) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |