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The American system of higher education is under attack from critics who charge that universities and faculty have disengaged from teaching and abandoned basic relationships with communities. There is continuing need for development of insight and knowledgeable responses to these criticisms and challenges. The urban universities in America have an opportunity to demonstrate the characteristics claimed to be missing from higher education. A discussion of the urban university as an institution in partnership with the community is provided together with recommendations for reform in scholarship, curriculum, teaching, and service.
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Mundt, M.H. The Urban University: An Opportunity for Renewal in Higher Education. Innovative Higher Education 22, 251–264 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1025143611774
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