From Jazz to Symphony
Alex Usher,
HESA,
Dec 03, 2024
Another discussion of the changing role of universities. Here, Alex User describes the changing role of universities from focusing on pure research to work that diretcly benefits the community. Things like 'promoting local economic growth, or providing solutions to "grand challenges" or sustainable development goals.' Now the precise way you describe 'benefit the community' matters here, because the way Usher describes it, "the lessons institutions learned with respect to growing research outputs do not translate well into these new missions. Research is something that can be done within academia; these new tasks require partnerships and relationships." It needs orchestration, some sort of central coordination, which means an end to the idea of self-governance for university research. I'm not honestly sure that central coordination makes sense, but mechanisms for cooperation surely are.
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