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A general consensus is forming that universities are failing in the tasks for which they were first created. To begin with, meetings of minds no longer take place in the context of universities. Universities, originally the transmitters of culture, learning and independent thought, are changing. In the past, scholars acted as arbiters who accredited knowledge. But today’s universities are producing knowledge in a “hothouse” atmosphere characterized more by the corporation than the campus.
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Hoppers, C.A.O. (2013). Shifting Development Education and University Engagement. In: Shultz, L., Kajner, T. (eds) Engaged Scholarship. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-290-7_10
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