In the words of President Arthur Smith, We must always be responsive to the needs of the community. Any agenda for our university must actively find out what those needs are. A major university such as ours is many things to many people.
Educators dispense knowledge.
But that is not enough. A university must dispense and translate knowledge for the good of the community, for the good of humankind. A university must be a light breaking through the clouds. This is the broader definition of outreach. It is not outreach in the traditional sense an unequal relationship of altruism.