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Missions of Universities

Part of the Higher Education Dynamics Book Series (volume 55)

Editors: Engwall, Lars

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-41834-2

ISBN: 978-3-030-41833-5

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

May 28, 2020

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Chapter 1The Governance and Missions of Universities

Engwall, Lars

Pages: 1 –19

[The university has been a very successful organizational form from its beginnings in the medieval Italian universities to its present-day global diffusion. While never exactly of a single type, universities today encompass considerable differentiation of scale, scope and reputation. For all of...
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Chapter 2The Idea and Role of Universities in Society

Mittelstrass, Jürgen

Pages: 21 –30

[Does an idea of the university which meets both the expectations of science and the expectations of society still exist? In order to answer this question, this chapter discusses the concept of a Leonardo World, a world that in its structures and forms of life expresses the scientific and...
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Chapter 3Medieval Universities and Empirical Research

Blockmans, Wim

Pages: 31 –42

[Universities emerged in the twelfth and thirteenth century as an entirely new type of educational institution, different from practices known in antiquity and in the Islamic world. The sharp rise of the cities and the commercial links between mainly Italian harbors and the Near East led to a...
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Chapter 4Universities and Their Missions in Early Modern Times

De Ridder-Symoens, Hilde

Pages: 43 –61

[Since the nineteenth century, we have become used to associating universities with professional training and with basic and applied research, and, as a consequence, with skills, performance, invention and innovation. Before 1800, the relations between the university and society and between the...
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Chapter 5Humboldt’s University: The History and Topicality of a German Tradition

Östling, Johan

Pages: 63 –80

[This chapter discusses the history of the modern German university and the topicality of Wilhelm von Humboldt’s ideas. A key issue is how the Humboldtian tradition, with its origin in Prussia around the year 1800, was transformed and has informed debates about research, higher education and...
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Chapter 6Building Knowledge:The Research Mission in American Universities, 1890–2018

Geiger, Roger L.

Pages: 81 –93

[In American universities, research has been one mission among several. This was the case at the beginning of the twentieth century when American universities were provincial outposts in the world of science; and it was true at the end of the century, when they were global leaders – the model for...
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Chapter 7Universities in a ‘Mode 2’ Society

Scott, Peter

Pages: 95 –113

[Two different modes of discourse for thinking about the future of higher education are contrasted – the dominant discourse of markets, managerialism and technology, and other more reflective discourses that focus on deeper social structures and cultural formations, and also scientific and wider...
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Chapter 8Universities and ‘Accountability’: Lessons from the UK Experience?

Collini, Stefan

Pages: 115 –130

[Universities must be “accountable” to society. This proposition is endlessly repeated in contemporary debates about higher education. However, what does “accountability” mean and by what measures can an appropriate form of accountability be ensured? The United Kingdom has in recent years imposed...
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Chapter 9The Socially Embedded American University: Intensification and Globalization

Ramirez, Francisco O.

Pages: 131 –161

[In the era of “world class” universities and “best practices” for higher education, an idealized American university is often a global benchmark. The message for many universities worldwide is that they should become more socially embedded, shifting away from a state-shielded historically...
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Chapter 10The European University as a Multiversity

Krücken, Georg

Pages: 163 –178

[Referring to Clark Kerr’s seminal lecture on “The idea of a multiversity”, the American research university of his time had to be conceived as a multiversity, i.e. an inconsistent institution, consisting of several communities, not one. This observation is certainly true for contemporary...

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