Creating Dialogue: The Role of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Fostering Civil Society.

Wong, Milton K.

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ERIC Number: EJ666438

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 2003

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Creating Dialogue: The Role of Urban and Metropolitan Universities in Fostering Civil Society.

Wong, Milton K.

Metropolitan Universities: An International Forum, v14 n1 p10-15 Mar 2003

This keynote address encourages urban and metropolitan universities to be courageous and creative in meeting new social and economic challenges. Explores why universities, products of the Age of Reason, must now face the competitive pressures arising from a collapse of the Authority of Reason. (EV)

Descriptors: College Role, Competition, Futures (of Society), Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Urban Universities

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Speeches/Meeting Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Paper presented at the International Conference of the Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (Vancouver, British Columbia, October 6-8, 2002).