Vision:
To realize the democratic, public, and civic purposes of American higher education.
Mission:
To animate and strengthen the public and civic purposes of humanities, arts, and design through mutually beneficial campus-community partnerships that advance democratic scholarship and practice.
Values:
- Reciprocity and mutual benefit in campus-community partnerships, scholarship, and teaching
- Participation, transparency, dialogue, and pluralism
- Innovation and integration of knowledge to improve our communities
- Cultural diversity and social equity
Goals:
- To integrate community and academic knowledge to help identify and solve significant real-world problems.
- To shape, participate in and sustain regional, national, and global conversations about models of democratic public scholarship and campus-community collaboration.
- To promote forms of professional development that support and encourage public scholarship.
- To advance cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue as means to realize social equity on campuses and in communities.
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It is IA’s practice to annually review this document as the landscape of higher education shifts in response to our work, and as we adjust our goals to changing needs within higher education.
Public scholarship refers to diverse modes of creating and circulating knowledge for and with publics and communities. It often involves mutually-beneficial partnerships between higher education and organizations in the public and private sectors. Its goals include enriching research, creative activity, and public knowledge; enhancing curriculum, teaching and learning; preparing educated and engaged citizens; strengthening democratic values and civic responsibility; addressing and helping to solve critical social problems; and contributing to the public good.
