A new context for understanding civic responsibility: Relating culture to action at a research university

Research in Higher Education

Volumn 48, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 993-1020

  Thornton, Courtney H ^a   Jaeger, Audrey J ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civic responsibility; Ethnographic research; Organizational culture; Research university; UNC Chapel Hill

Indexed keywords

EID: 36849033328     PISSN: 03610365     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11162-007-9058-3     Document Type: Article

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