The civic university : the policy and leadership challenges / edited by John Goddard, Ellen Hazelkorn, Louise Kempton, and Paul Vallance.

PART I: WHY THE CIVIC UNIVERSITY?: 1. Introduction: why the civic university?; 2. The historical roots and development of the civic university; 3. Contemporary debates part 1: theorising civic engagement; 4. Contemporary debates part 2: initiatives, governance and organisational structures; 5. National higher education systems and civic universities; PART II: THE CIVIC UNIVERSITIES: 6. Leading a fundamentally detuned choir: University of Tampere, Finland --
a civic university?; 7. Aalto University: art and science meet technology and business; 8. From colonisation to collaboration: challenges of repositioning Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin, within its community; 9. Dublin Institute of Technology: moving, merging, and managing the civic engagement mission; 10. The University of Groningen: an engaging university; 11. The civic university in Amsterdam; 12. Newcastle University and the development of the concept of a world-class civic university; 13. University College London: leveraging the civic capacity of 'London's Global University'; PART III: THE LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT CHALLENGES: 14. Institutional challenges and tensions; 15. Postscript: the civic university as a normative model?; Appendix A: Key institutional data; Appendix B: Tools for understanding the civic university.

This innovative book addresses the leadership and management challenges of maximising the contribution of universities to civil society both locally and globally. It does this by developing a model of the civic university as an academic concept, drawing out practical lessons for university management on how to embed civic engagement in the heartland of the university. To this end, the contributors compare experiences and reports on a developmental process in eight institutions: University College London and Newcastle University in the UK, Amsterdam and Groningen Universities in the Netherlands, Aalto and Tampere Universities in Finland and Trinity College Dublin and Dublin Institute of Technology in Ireland. It will be of interest to academics of politics, public policy and management studies, as well as having relevance to policymakers in the field.