We’re inviting people to tell and make sense of richly drawn, first-person stories of public work projects and experiences that include significant levels of community-university engagement. We’re not looking for promotional stories about public service activities that describe all the good things that colleges and universities are doing for, in, and/or with their communities. Nor are we looking for muckraking exposés that claim or aim to show how oppressive and elitist higher education is or can be. Rather, the stories we’re hoping to hear, document, and learn from are those that communicate subjective truths about the promise and challenges of community-university engagement in the public work of democracy—truths that are grounded in the lived experience of those who are directly and actively engaged on the front lines of such work. We’re hoping to hear and learn from stories that give us pause as well as hope, that make us feel as well as think, that give us new insights and ideas as well as move us to act, that humanize and bring to life what is all too often narrowly cast with a public relations spin, or posed only as a theoretical possibility.