Understanding the entrepreneurial nature of universitiesin particular, the relationship between education and health in relation to development and wellness of communitiesthis volume provides a description/narration of the efforts in how universities can address their shifting contexts while engaging their communities in social change. In the development of this book, we have explored how reforms in American higher education are impacting the role of universities and their faculty. Contributors were asked to imagine possibilities for research and outreach by providing salient examples of how higher education can lead and change how we view the role of health and education within institutions and society. Each author writes across common themes that address the problems and possibilities of higher education curriculum and projects aligned with the mission of stewardship. The authors highlight interdisciplinary approaches and projects for faculty work, modification of the Teaching-Research-Service expectations, and community initiatives that can emerge from real-life problems (to impact wellbeing) and create rich and deep research possibilities for practitioners to impact both higher education and society. The process and research approaches used by the authors include imagining the community as part of a process of the change and part of what changes, exploring how community change can build on the strengths of local people, and why community organization and advocacy should revolve around social learning and community capacity theories. Given the diversity of topics and approaches, as editors we have tried to honour both the authors words and style in expressing their opinions to provide a forum for the readers to envision stewardship.

Acknowledgements; Re-imagining Universities as Places for Research and Reform; Section I Analyzing Stewardship and Its Impact; 1. The Data That Bind Us: Finding Our Hidden Wholeness in Education; 2. Re-imagining Higher Education Funding; 3. Re-imaging the Role of Education and Wellness on Community Impact; 4. Taking Their Lives into Their Own Hands: A Commentary on Intrinsic Interest and Other Push and Pull Factors in the College Major Choice Process; Section II Issues of Stewardship in Higher Education; 5. Can Monarchs Make It through Texas?: Liberal Education and Public Health; 6. In Pursuit of the Good Life or the Good Job? ; 7. Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Its Implications for Retaining Minority Students in Predominantly White Institutions (PWIs); 8. Building Community Capacity to Guide University Stewardship: An Oregon Experiment; 9. Non Nobis Solum (Not for Ourselves Alone): Individuals with Moderate and Severe Disabilities and What Institutions of Higher Education Can Offer; Section III Personal Narratives of Stewardship; 10. Aqui estamos y no nos vamos: A Critical Counter Story of theEducational Experience of an Undocumented Graduate Dream Activist; 11. A College Degree with a Sense of Community; 12. Higher Education and Community Engagement; 13. Epilogue: Educating for Global Citizenship.