This book offers a much-needed appraisal of two key social change
movements within higher education: civic engagement and social
innovation. The authors critically explore the historical and
contemporary contexts as well as democratic foundations (or absence
thereof) of both approaches, concluding with a discussion of possible
future directions that may make the approaches more effective in
fulfilling the broader democratic mission of U.S. higher education. This
is an essential resource for those in higher education who wish to
promote and advance social change, as it provides an opportunity to
critically examine where we are with our civic engagement and social
innovation approaches and what we might do to best realize their promise
through changes in our educational processes, pedagogical strategies,
evaluation metrics, and outcomes.