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Genuine collaboration between students, their faculty mentors, and the local community leads to innovative research, powerful educational experiences, and a dynamic, fluid relationships between the academy and the public it serves. Ostensibly different fields of inquiry within the liberal arts have much to learn from one another, with learning taking place not only in classrooms, libraries, and laboratories, but in rovers and marshes, in towns and civic centers, and in sustained conversation with neighbors and community members.
Having both contemporary and historic dimensions, the subject invites the work of biologists and scientists, archaeologists and anthropologists, historians and philosophers, political and economic theorists, policy makers and mathematicians, literary critics, oral historians, and artists. The rubric is chosen not to signal the launch of a new field of inquiry, but rather to serve as a marker for how diverse branches of the liberal arts may converge in a common project that reveals these disciplines to be interactive and complementary rather than separate and competitive. The aim of such studies is to produce a richer, more complex, and revisable portrait of the ground on which we stand, and in such ways that may enable better decisions about how to care for it and its people.
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