Higher education, after all, is one of America's major export successes. How SI Can Turn a University into a Community of Learners. I believe there is enough creativity and skill in almost every college and university to produce a restructured institution, if we commit ourselves to begin. And that means that as long as our major universities continue to serve so many public constituencies, then all academics need to concern themselves with public relations, and all college faculty are necessarily public intellectuals. Communities of Concepts don't emerge in the ivory tower alone.
Valuable knowledge is created elsewhere in society too.
Universities in the Digital Age. To realize the economic benefits of the computer revolution, it will be necessary for essentially all citizens to subject themselves to even greater external discipline, in the form of rigorous academic skills, technical competencies, and flexible, collaborative workstyles. While millions are energized by the prospects of a collegial, informated workplace and the notion of sequential careers, other millions are hostile to what they perceive as a further loss of personal freedom and the subjugation of their individuality and independence to the standards and expectations set by others. Physics Today, March 1995. We believe that the Principles of Good Practice may become the basis for national agreement on the standards for programs offered electronically.