"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) What Is the Real College of Education? (David Mathews); (3) Forging Ties That Bind: The Engagement Challenge in Higher Education (Frank Fear); (4) Engaged Faculty: An Interview (KerryAnn O'Meara); (5) Student-Led Civic Education: A Different Way of Knowing (Harold H. Saunders, David Tukey, Amy Lazarus, and Rhonda Fitzgerald); (6) Community Colleges and Civic Learning: An Interview (Bernie Ronan); and (7) "Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities" by Martha C. Nussbaum (Sara A. Mehltretter Drury). [For "Higher Education Exchange, 2010," see ED539323.]