By Lawrence S. Bacow, Shamsh Kassim-Lakha, and Saran Kaur Gill
Around the world, higher education faces pressure to respond better to the needs of society. More universities are rising to the occasion at the national level, and others are finding new ways to help neighborhoods and local communities solve important problems. Their success suggests it is time to question some long-held ideas.
As members of the Talloires Network, an international association of institutions committed to strengthening the civic role of higher education, we believe that a university is not an ivory tower. It is a social enterprise, with obligations to the society that supports it.
via A University’s Calling: to Repair the Social Fabric – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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