What are Universities for?

A ‘Social Park’ event, organised by the Research Centre for the Social Sciences (ReCSS), 4-6pm, Thursday, 5th June 2014

Venue:  ARRC Auditorium, Alcuin college, University of York (map: https://www.york.ac.uk/about/maps/campus/)

What are universities for? This symposium will provide an opportunity to hear views reflecting on what a university means today and how its work connects to wider communities. At a time of financial challenges for students and universities and questions over the public value of universities this symposium will allow time to reflect on these issues. In the current environment, can universities be enhanced as spaces that work for those in and beyond the campus?

Presentations on: The collective within and beyond the University, Public Higher Education and Democracy, The university that never was and What academics want, what the public wants, and what universities actually do.

What are Universities for? (PDF , 751kb)