The Uses of the University

By Guoping Jiang. 2003

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Trends in Global Higher Education: Tracking an Academic Revolution: A Report Prepared for the UNESCO 2009 World Conference on Higher Education (2010, background): “Some countries have borrowed from the experience of the American public university system (Kerr, 2001).”
Co-constructing Student Involvement: An Examination of Teacher Confirmation and Student-to-Student Connectedness in the College Classroom (2010, background): “…the most important outcome of the classroom experience (Hirschy & Wilson, 2002; Page & Mukherjee, 2000), and is a campus-wide responsibility (Hunter, 2006), Kerr (2001) argued that postsecondary schools are often not student-centered: Teaching loads and student contact hours have been reduced.”
International student recruitment to universities in England: discourse, rationales and globalisation (2008, background): “In Europe, the Roman Catholic Church, the British Parliament and around 70 universities were established by 1520 and are still present today (Kerr 2001, 15).”
International student destination choice: the influence of home campus experience on the decision to consider branch campuses (2011, background): “Universities have always attracted international students; even in the mid-sixteenth century, most of the 70 universities in Europe had foreign teachers and students (Kerr, 2001).”
Globalisation and the University: Myths and Realities in an Unequal World (2004, background): “Of these, perhaps the universities have experienced the least change (Kerr 2001, p. 115).”
Advancing the national and global knowledge economy: the role of research universities in developing countries (2013, background): “The service mission of the University has always been of central importance (Kerr 2001).”
Universities and the post-2015 development agenda: an analytical framework (2016, background): “The nature of and balance between all of these activities has changed dramatically over time, with a trend of increasing diversification—captured in Kerr’s (1963) idea of the multiversity discussed above.”
The engaged university (2010, unknown): “As noted in his book The Uses of the University (Harvard 1963), ‘‘What the railroads did for the second half of the last century and the automobile for the first half of this century may be done for the second half of this century by the knowledge industry ‘‘(Kerr 1963).”