Community-Based Research and Higher Education
Principles and Practices
Chapter One
ORIGINS AND PRINCIPLES OF
COMMUNITY-BASED RESEARCH
Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all; that they
consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek
it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for
superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of
these inferior things; but for the benefit and use of Life.
-Francis Bacon
Over the past two decades, many higher education institutions,
from small, private, liberal arts colleges to massive state-supported research
universities, have begun to rethink their institutional missions and
implement a variety of community outreach efforts. Several forces have
helped to create this state of affairs. Two of them-widespread criticism
of higher education's disconnection from communities and growing concern
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