The new edition of the Journal of Community Engagement and Scholarship is now available. The lead article is mine, and discusses the impact of presidents and city managers on town-gown relationships.
Check it out here:
http://jces.ua.edu/campus-and-community-leadership-in-the-spotlight-how-university-presidents-and-city-managers-view-town-gown-relationships
Readers immediately will see how this work formed the earliest basis for the JHUP book I wrote with West Virginia University president E. Gordon Gee on the land-grant mission of the 21st century, which focuses so heavily on community engagement as its core function.