Articles

Universities in Canada and else-where are recognizing the impor-tance of being more engaged with their communities. Indeed, the pres-ident of the University of Alberta made engaging with external com-munities one of the cornerstones of her vision for the institution. So how are universities meeting this challenge? In his book, Managing Civic and Community Engagement, David Watson laments the dearth of scholarly attention paid to the practice of civic engagement by universities (Watson, 2007). In this article, I discuss the university-community partnership betwee