University-Community Engagement in the Asia Pacific

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Academic Public Good

   • Christopher S. Collins

   Pages 1-10

3. Educational Leaders and Partnerships: A Critical Examination of the GLOBE Model for Higher Education Contexts in the Asia Pacific Region

   • Chris M. Lucas

   Pages 11-19

4. Cross-Border Higher Education: Engaging East Asian Cities

   • Anh Pham

   Pages 21-40

5. The Challenges and Benefits of Transnational Higher Education: A Case Study of Sino-Foreign Cooperation University in China

   • Xiao Han

   Pages 41-55

6. Digital Heritage as a Rhetorical Tool for Cultural Preservation

   • Shahreen Mat Nayan

   Pages 57-71

7. Thai Higher Education and Local Community Engagement Toward Creative Tourism

   • Nongluck Manowaluilou

   Pages 73-86

8. University–Community Connections and the Thai Concept of Sufficiency: The Case of 9 Boworn

   • Benya Kasantikul

   Pages 87-102

9. Continued Learning in an Aging Society: A University–Community Collaborative Educational Intervention in Taiwan

   • Wei-ni Wang

   Pages 103-122

10. Back Matter

    Pages 123-126

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This edited volume provides a framework for understanding academic public good and offers case studies and perspectives as in depth examples of the ways in which colleges and universities engage with the community to produce social benefits. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the authors discuss examples of engagement that produce consciousness, partnerships, and services that are broadly available to the public and enhance the progress of society.  The authors argue that, unlike an individual degree, these are public benefits that should be focused upon and featured more readily so that the breadth of university benefits come to be better understood. 

• Asia Pacific universities
• community engagement
• higher education
• international education
• academic public good

• Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, USA

  Christopher S. Collins

Christopher S. Collins is Assistant Professor of Higher Education at Azusa Pacific University, USA, and Associate Director of the Asia Pacific Higher Education Research Partnership at the East-West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. His research focuses on the function of higher education in society and its role in social and economic progress.

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