"Higher Education Exchange" publishes case studies, analyses, news, and ideas about efforts within higher education to develop more democratic societies. Contributors to this issue of the "Higher Education Exchange" examine whether institutions of higher learning are doing anything to increase the capacity of citizens to shape their future. Contents include: (1) Foreword (Deborah Witte); (2) Higher Education and the American Commonwealth Partnership: An Interview (Harry Boyte); (3) Tales from Anti-Civic U (Claire Snyder-Hall); (4) Educating Democratically: An Interview (Elizabeth Minnich); (5) Living Democracy: A Project for Students and Citizens (Mark Wilson and Nan Fairley); (6) Civic Engagement and Doctoral Education (Ellen M. Knutson and Dan A. Lewis); (7) Public Scholarship at the Graduate Student Level (Robin Hoecker); (8) Wicked Bedfellows: Can Science and Democracy Coexist in the Land Grant? (Wynne Wright); (9) "What Is College For? The Public Purpose of Higher Education" Edited by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann and Harry Lewis (Elizabeth Hudson); and (10) Higher Education and Har Megiddo (David Mathews). Individual articles contain references. [For "Higher Education Exchange, 2011," see ED539343.]