Chapter One
An Agenda of Common Caring
The Call for Community in Higher Education
E. Grady Bogue
In the closing years of the twentieth century, a concern for "community"
enjoyed a renewed visibility in public conversation and
literature, as reflected in Habits of the Heart (Bellah and others,
1985) and The Spirit of Community (Etzioni, 1993). A similar theme
entered the literature of higher education with the often-cited special
report titled Campus Life: In Search of Community (The Carnegie
Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, 1990). The theme
of "community" was also engaged in journal pieces (Kuh, 1991;
Miller, 1994; Tompkins, 1992).
An important hope is carried in this opening chapter. It is the
hope that those holding our colleges and universities in trust-students,
faculty, staff, trustees-will understand that colleges and
universities a ... read full excerpt from Creating Campus Community: In Search of Ernest Boyer's Legacy ebook
