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The socially responsible university: a way of being
In 2001, the project "Universidad Construye País" (University Builds Country) was launched in Chile. Its aim was to carry out coordinated, joint social responsibility activities in the country’s universities. One of the people behind this project is the rector of the Catholic University of Temuco,...
The contribution of universities to regional development: social, cultural and environmental issues
Higher education institutions have always played an important role in the development of their respective regions. In this article, Francisco Marmolejo, the Executive Director of the Consortium for North American Higher Education Collaboration, states that this contribution cannot, nor indeed...
Higher Education contribution to the UN Millennium Development Goals
Several of the most pressing problems and challenges faced by humankind were identified in 2000 as Millennium Development Goals. World governments made a commitment to meet these goals by 2015. To what extent are these goals a subject of concern for higher education? Should higher education...
Training for the Profession of Sustainable Development: Educational Requirements for Practical Imperatives
John W. McArthur (USA) Chief Executive Officer of Millennium Promise. In this article, the authors explain that a new type of cross-disciplinary practitioner is needed, one who understands the complex interactions between fields and is able to effectively coordinate and implement the insights...
Quality and the social responsibility of universities
In this article, Yazmín Cruz, GUNI project officer, states that quality cannot be an abstract, unimportant notion: it must be applied to a specific context and in relation to the relevance of an institution and its role in solving the problems faced by a community.
University Social Responsibility: Methodological Development Proposal
In this article, Juanjo Martí Noguera, of the University of Valencia, presents an analysis of the social responsibility of the university. This analysis of the social responsibility of the university, is in particular, coming from a psychology perspective and sketches the first approximation on the...
The Arts in Higher Education as a Vehicle for Social Change: Right vs. Wide
Higher education institutions constitute an apparently privileged space within which society can question, experiment with and even confront itself. In theory, they can be an environment for creative endeavour. However, numerous contradictions encountered in practice hinder or even impede this...
Contributions of a human development approach to re-visioning the quality of universities
In this article, Alejandra Boni, Studies Group on Development, Cooperation and Ethics, Department of Projects Engineering of the Technical University of Valencia, and Des Gasper, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, propose a matrix to interpret universities’ activities and achievements in...
Sustainability: An integrative vision
In this article Àngels Canadell, coordinator of the GUNI Report Higher Education in the World 4, explains the need of an integrative vision to advance sustainability and the possible education’s contribution on this.
The World We Want: Creating a New Architecture of Knowledge
In this article, Budd Hall, University of Victoria (Canada) Chan Lean Heng, Universiti Sains Malaysia and Rajesh Tandon, Society for Participatory Research, (India) highlight the importance of community-university research partnerships and present the philosophy and activities of the Global...
Working towards the coproduction of knowledge: a research partnership involving Aboriginal people
In this article, Carole Lévesque, professor at the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (Montréal) and DIALOG director, Édith Cloutier, president of the Regroupement des centres d’amitié autochtones du Québec and Julie Cunningham, DIALOG network coordinator explain the experience of a...
The glocal multiversity: new roles and emerging challenges for human and social development
In this article, Josep Lobera and Cristina Escrigas reflect upon the universities’ new roles, so that they can face human and social challenges, beyond the paradigm of "ivory tower" or "market-oriented university".
Citizenship, rights and universities
In this article Victoria Kandel, BA in Social Sciences and doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, analyses the concepts of citizenship and rights and their linkage with higher education.
Hope in Africa: Human development through higher education community interaction
In this article Prof. H. Russel Botman Rector and Vice-Chancellor of Stellenbosch University, South Africa and Vice-President of the Association of African Universities reflects upon the higher education community interaction in Africa.
Lessons learnt from Copenhagen: civil society’s role in world democratic governance
In this article, Josep Xercavins i Valls, Professor at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and head of delegation of the UPC, organisation with observer status in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), reflects upon the role of civil society and higher...

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Articles

The socially responsible university: a way of being

The contribution of universities to regional development: social, cultural and environmental issues

Higher Education contribution to the UN Millennium Development Goals

Training for the Profession of Sustainable Development: Educational Requirements for Practical Imperatives

Quality and the social responsibility of universities

University Social Responsibility: Methodological Development Proposal

The Arts in Higher Education as a Vehicle for Social Change: Right vs. Wide

Contributions of a human development approach to re-visioning the quality of universities

Sustainability: An integrative vision

The World We Want: Creating a New Architecture of Knowledge

Working towards the coproduction of knowledge: a research partnership involving Aboriginal people

The glocal multiversity: new roles and emerging challenges for human and social development

Citizenship, rights and universities

Hope in Africa: Human development through higher education community interaction

Lessons learnt from Copenhagen: civil society’s role in world democratic governance

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