A foreword and 11 articles discuss the nature and structure of public scholarship. The contents include: "Foreword" (Deborah Witte); (1) "Public Scholarship: The Dissemination of Knowledge" (Jean Cameron) which maintains the public has claims on higher education as a creator and disseminator of knowledge; (2) "Daring to Be Unprofessional" (David W. Brown) which suggests the professional ethos is often at odds with the needs of students and other realities on campus; (3) "Towards an Ethic of Academic Discourse, Or, Why Do Professors Talk the Way They Do?" (Bennett Ramsey) which considers the need to balance academic research and academic accessibility; (4) "Pedagogical and Civic Response-Abilities" (Stephen M. Johnson) which examines open-ended learning and multicultural classrooms; (5) "An Agenda for Involving Faculty in Service" (Deborah Hirsch) which proposes service learning as a form of faculty professional service; (6) "The Promise and the Flaws of Public Scholarship" (Alan Wolfe) which presents public scholarship as an obligation to share knowledge; (7) "Public Scholars: In Search of a Usable Present--A Reply to Alan Wolfe" (Jay Rosen) which stresses the need to disseminate knowledge and create it in a group fashion; (8) "Public Scholarship and the Land-Grant Idea" (Scott J. Peters) which notes the legacy of partnership between university and community; (9) "Civic Education in a New Key" (Bernard Murchland) which urges the centrality of educating for a healthy civic society; (10) "Public Deliberation: A Resurgence of Scholarly Interest" (Dennis Gilbert) which notes that public deliberation strengthens the legitimacy of public institutions; and (11) "The Public and the Academy" (David Mathews) which offers a broad look at the relationship between institutions of higher education and the civic realm. (Papers contain references.)(JLS)