Today CAN brings you Arlene Goldbard's introduction to "The Curriculum Project Report: Culture and Community Development in Higher Education." Sponsored by Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life, The Curriculum Project was initiated by Jan Cohen-Cruz, Dudley Cocke and Goldbard because, she says, "we agreed that with the evident upsurge of community cultural development (CCD) in higher education, with more courses and programs being added every semester, this was an opportune time to engage our colleagues in thinking about the big questions." They realized that effective CCD education had to maintain a balance of skills training, community engagement and scholarship, anchored by commitment to “a social order of justice permeated by love.” Goldbard includes choice quotes from the hundreds of interviews the project did with practitioners, educators, funders, consultants, community partners and students. The report itself is downloadable from the IA Web site. [LINK] Posted by Linda Frye Burnham