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What Are Universities For?
Across the world universities are more numerous than they have ever been yet at the same time there is unprecedented confusion about their purpose and scepticism about their value What Are Universities For? offers a spirited and compelling argument for completely rethinking the way we see our universities and why we need them Stefan Collini challenges the common claim that universities need to show that they help to make money in order to justify getting more money Instead he argues that we must reflect on the different types of institution and the distinctive roles they play In particular we must recognize that attempting to extend human understanding which is at the heart of disciplined intellectual enquiry can never be wholly harnessed to immediate social purposes - particularly in the
case of the humanities which both attract and puzzle many people and are therefore the most difficult subjects to justifyAt a time when the future of higher education lies in the balance What Are Universities For? offers all of us a better deeper and more enlightened understanding of why universities matter to everyone
case of the humanities which both attract and puzzle many people and are therefore the most difficult subjects to justifyAt a time when the future of higher education lies in the balance What Are Universities For? offers all of us a better deeper and more enlightened understanding of why universities matter to everyone
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