Democratic Devolution: How America’s Colleges and Universities Can Strengthen Their Communities

Posted by on October 15, 2012

We thought you would be interested in the new report by Penn Netter Center Director Ira Harkavy and Assistant  Director Rita Hodges on Democratic Devolution: How America’s Colleges and Universities Can Strengthen Their Communities, which was just released by the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI). PPI is an independent, DC-based think tank.

The link to the Full Report is:

http://www.progressivepolicy.org/2012/10/democratic-devolution-how-americas-colleges-and-universities-can-strengthen-their-communities/

In announcing the report, PPI president Will Marshall noted that  “Harkavy and Hodges call for a ‘democratic devolution’–new civic partnerships between government and ‘higher eds’ to tackle urgent community problems, especially low-performing schools.”  It is time, Marshall further notes, for higher eds “to make service to their communities once again an integral part of the public mission of every U.S. college and university.”