tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13699774.post2361492264757476905..comments2023-05-04T10:28:02.564+01:00Comments on Summa cum laude: Managing UniversitiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13699774.post-21111102593415752082008-05-19T12:16:00.000+01:002008-05-19T12:16:00.000+01:00Thanks, Andrew, for this very appropriate quote. I...Thanks, Andrew, for this very appropriate quote. It gives me the opportunity to highlight one of the themes of the Symposium, which is civic engagement.<BR/><BR/>Professor Ronaldo Munck from DCU will be offering a workshop in which he will pose some questions about civic engagement for discussion. These include:<BR/> <BR/>Is the best way to integrate a community element into the contemporary university through its role in terms of knowledge development? Much as many universities have a link with industry in pursuit of ‘knowledge transfer’, should they not also be linked to the communities around them in an active partnership to pursue a genuine ‘knowledge exchange’? <BR/><BR/>I think these questions resonate with your post, and they point to very important considerations about the ways in which universities relate to the societies around them.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11007228501070683958noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13699774.post-22702698044499116592008-05-16T13:49:00.000+01:002008-05-16T13:49:00.000+01:00This reminds me of the dichotomy Gerard Quinn poin...This reminds me of the dichotomy Gerard Quinn pointed out in the most recent issue of your CKI magazine:<BR/><BR/>"It is also worth reminding ourselves that universities are, and are meant to be, highly peculiar environments. They are pulled in two different directions. On the one hand, universities stand apart from the world around them and it is precisely this separateness that gives universities authority, credibility and the capacity to engage in fresh and critical thinking; thinking that can often lead to solutions for pressing issues in the broader world. It is vitally important that this separateness should not be compromised nor be seen to be compromised.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, universities are naturally drawn to the world mainly because knowledge comes from the world and it belongs to the world. Knowledge provides the wherewithal to solve pressing problems and to move public policy forward. As knowledge holders in a wide variety of disciplines we, as academics, are naturally drawn to the world in different ways.<BR/><BR/>Perhaps the chief civic virtue of the academic is to give back to the community the wherewithal to solve its own problems ..."<BR/>http://www.nuigalwaycki.ie/admin/documents/ENGAGE.pdfandrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17064600321175991589noreply@blogger.com