Scholarship in Action: Why Community Commitment Matters ...

10on public rather than only private gains. In so doing, we do as much to change our institutions,by bringing the outside in, as we do to change the lives and livelihoods of our communities, athome and abroad.Hopefully, this outward-looking agenda, with its emphasis on making coalitions in thepublic good that at the same time change the academy within, is one that higher education canvigorously promote in the years to come.