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Leveraging Community-University Engagements for Social Impact with Lifelong Penchants
Rebecaanthog Lekoko
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Paperback. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: JNKP; JNMN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 155. .
Worldwide, universities are considered assets for empowering local communities, hence making community engagement or third mission of universities popular. Community-university engagement has thus become a strategy for universities to generate, apply, use knowledge and other university resources outside academic environments. While arguments in this book indicate that universities have great potential to empower communities, it also remains largely true that communities also empower universities in many respects. The potential for each partner to contribute can be compromised when conditions necessary for success are not considered. Communities, for example, lose trust and resent exploitation of their resources when universities alone gain ... Read more
Worldwide, universities are considered assets for empowering local communities, hence making community engagement or third mission of universities popular. Community-university engagement has thus become a strategy for universities to generate, apply, use knowledge and other university resources outside academic environments. While arguments in this book indicate that universities have great potential to empower communities, it also remains largely true that communities also empower universities in many respects. The potential for each partner to contribute can be compromised when conditions necessary for success are not considered. Communities, for example, lose trust and resent exploitation of their resources when universities alone gain ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Nova Science Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
115
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781634848145
SKU
V9781634848145
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99-2
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