What is the basic societal mission of a university?

Submitted by Duane Elverum on Sat, 2010-03-27 08:54

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Keynote Address
EduCamp, UBC/OTL
March 18, 2010

Thanks to Emily Renoe and Zack Lee from the UBC OLT for inviting me to speak today. And thanks to Janet Moore and Mark Winston for introducing me to the SFU Semester in Dialogue.

As part of my teaching and research in sustainability education, I explore how we might prepare students for a life that will be somewhat different than the one we are living now. After 15 years teaching at UBC, SFU and ECU, it seems that universities are really struggling to help students create a better world. We send so many of our young people to these buildings, but what are we hoping will happen there?

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