Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities

Strengthening the University's Public Mission: Sustainability through Community engagement

Scott Peters, Cornell University

Thursday, September 18, 2008
Memorial Union, Sun Room
8:00pm

Scott Peters joined the Department of Education at Cornell University in August of 1999. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration from the University of Minnesota. Peters served for ten years (1984-1993) as Program Director of the University YMCA at the University of Illinois, where he worked with students, faculty, staff, and community members on a variety of civic education and community development initiatives. Dr. Peters' research program is centered on a critical examination of the social, political, and cultural identities, roles, purposes, and work of academic origins and early development of the national land-grant system's agricultural extension work, and a line that utilizes narrative inquiry to analyze and interpret the civic engagement experiences and public purposes and work of contemporary land-grant scholars and extension educators. A key theoretical and practical problem his research seeks to address is that of the dilemma of the relation of expertise and democracy in the academic profession.

Scott Peters, Associate Professor of Educational Studies, Cornell University

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Recent Publications

Peters, Scott J. (2007). Reconstructing a Democratic Tradition of Public Scholarship in the Land-Grant System. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation Press.

Peters, Scott J. (2007) Changing the Story About Higher Education's Public Purposes and Work: Land-Grants, Liberty, and the Little Country Theater. Ann Arbor, MI: Imagining America (Foreseeable Futures Position Paper #6).

Peters, Scott J. (2006). "Every Farmer Should Be Awakened: Liberty Hyde Bailey's Vision of Agricultural Extension Work." Agricultural History, Vol 80, No. 2: 190-219.

Peters, Scott J., N.R. Jordan, M. Adamek, and T.R. Alter, eds. 2005. Engaging Campus and Community: The Practice of Public Scholarship in the State and Land-Grant University. Dayton, OH: Kettering Foundation Press. (click here for links to Preface and Introduction, available for download from the Kettering Foundation)