Scott J. PetersScott Peters is a professor in the Department of Global Development at Cornell University and a historian of American higher education’s public purposes and work. He has spent the past twenty years as a leader in the civic engagement movement n American higher education, most recently serving as faculty co-director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). He is the lead author of Democracy and Higher Education: Traditions and Stories of Civic Engagement. He is also co-editor of the Cornell University Press book series, “Publicly Engaged Scholars: Identities, Purposes, and Practices." Read More Read Less