Moiseyenko, Olena. “Education and Social Cohesion: Higher Education.” Peabody Journal of Education, 80(4), 89-104. Erlbaum, 2005.
Moiseyenko provides an overview (“preliminary understanding”) of how universities can promote social cohesion, mainly by curriculum content, university culture, academic fairness and integrity, and community involvement.

I wanted this article to do more work than it was designed to do. It reinforces what we already know rather than offering a transformative perspective. I guess that is what a literature review does. Except, it seems to cover a lot of ground and so I’m not sure that these sources are the “must-cite” sources on this subject.

90: Quotes Putnam (Bowling Alone: The collapse and revival of American community, 2000) who defines social capital as ‘connections among individuals–social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them’ (19).
91-94 Section on curriculum content suggests that social sciences, humanities, and history provide “thematic diversity” necessary to promoting social cohesion, as well as subjects being taught in an environment of academic freedom that emphasizes active and cooprative learning.
93: Quotes Gutmann (Democratic Freedom, 1999) who says that character traits of “toleration, truth telling, and a predisposition to nonviolence,” should already be instilled and if they’re not, then ‘preaching and setting a good example,’ are not likely to work. Further, “learning how to think carefully and critically about political problems adn to articulate one’s views and defend them before people with whom one disagrees is a form of moral education” that might be more likely to work.
95-97: “Creating a Sense of Community Through Tight Networks”
Students participation in residential colleges, greek organizations, and alumni associations all work towards creating ‘tight networks.’
97: Emphasizes importance of creating diverse environments that help to eliminate segregation. Refers to Why Race matters
102: “Higher Education and Technology”
Refers to Howard Rheingold’s definition of virtual communities and to article by A. Blanchard and T. Horan (1998), “Virtual communities and social capital” in Social Science Computer Review, 16, 293-307.