Enhancing Community-University Engagement: The Case of Montemorelos University

Document Type

Contribution to Book

Publication Date

2015

Keywords

Faculty Member, Community Service, Community Leader, Community Engagement, Service Learning

Abstract

Universities in Latin America have followed European models that evolved from cloisters or institutions detached from surrounding contexts since their inception. Resulting from that traditional approach, schools were conceived as special places where students could learn about a specific issue and then go back to the real world.

First Page

285

Last Page

300

Book Title

Community Engagement in Higher Education: Policy Reforms and Practice

Editor

W. James Jacob, Stewart E. Sutin, John C. Weidman, John L. Yeager

Publisher

Sense Publishing

City

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Series

Pittsburg Studies in Comparative and International Education, vol. 3

ISBN

978-94-6300-006-2

First Department

Leadership

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