What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come

Peter BAEHR

What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come

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Abstract

Universities in both Asia and the West are currently subject to great pressures of social change. Governments and business are seeking new ways to employ the skills of university professionals; the role of scholarship traditionally assigned to academics is now increasingly competing with the demand to be “relevant”. What should universities do under these conditions? How should they, and particularly the humanities and social sciences within them, define their role in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I will argue that the rhetoric of “the corporatised university”，and of “ideology construction” obscures the university’s distinct contribution to society. That contribution lies in a commitment to the traditions and anti-traditions of the past; in securing the university as a testing-ground of ideas produced within and outside the academy; and in protecting the three norms that govern free intellectual activity: cognitive rationality, open inquiry and reciprocal elucidation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Macau and its neighbors toward the 21st century : Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and humanities at the University of Macau 2-3 June 1997
Editors	Rufino RAMOS, Rex WILSON, D. Y. YUAN, Jose ROCHA DINIS
Place of Publication	Macau
Publisher	Publications Center, University of Macau & Macau Foundation
Pages	245-250
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9789729763199
Publication status	Published - Dec 1998
Externally published	Yes

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BAEHR, P. (1998). What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come. In R. RAMOS, R. WILSON, D. Y. YUAN, & J. ROCHA DINIS (Eds.), Macau and its neighbors toward the 21st century : Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and humanities at the University of Macau 2-3 June 1997 (pp. 245-250). Publications Center, University of Macau & Macau Foundation.

BAEHR, Peter. / What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come. Macau and its neighbors toward the 21st century : Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and humanities at the University of Macau 2-3 June 1997. editor / Rufino RAMOS ; Rex WILSON ; D. Y. YUAN ; Jose ROCHA DINIS. Macau : Publications Center, University of Macau & Macau Foundation, 1998. pp. 245-250

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What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come. / BAEHR, Peter.

Macau and its neighbors toward the 21st century : Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and humanities at the University of Macau 2-3 June 1997. ed. / Rufino RAMOS; Rex WILSON; D. Y. YUAN; Jose ROCHA DINIS. Macau : Publications Center, University of Macau & Macau Foundation, 1998. p. 245-250.

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BAEHR P. What should universities do? challenges now and in the century of come. In RAMOS R, WILSON R, YUAN DY, ROCHA DINIS J, editors, Macau and its neighbors toward the 21st century : Proceedings of the international symposium organized by the Faculty of Social Sciences and humanities at the University of Macau 2-3 June 1997. Macau: Publications Center, University of Macau & Macau Foundation. 1998. p. 245-250

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