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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED325051 AUTHOR: Sarukhan, Jose
TITLE: The Role and Mission of the University in Cultural
Development and Education: Diversity within Universality.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1990
NOTE: 11 p.; Paper presented at the International
Association of Universities General Conference (9th,
Helsinki, Finland, August 5-11, 1990).
ABSTRACT: The university in Latin America has always been
a dynamic and changing institution. One of the university's
roles is to produce free and universal individuals, who are
capable of thinking, deciding, and acting on their own, and
are possessors of an inner freedom that liberates them of
all types of prejudice. In its role as intellectual
emancipator, the university strengthens its position as a
space of liberty, pluralism, humanism and universalism,
research, creation, and social communication of the
elements of culture. As part of an educational system, the
university must recognize the demands of the society and
the State. The university is also a crucial cog in the
wheel of economic growth and welfare, modernization,
industrialization, technological and scientific
achievement, and social development. It is also a principal
generator of national intelligence about the country's
natural resources and the possibilities and constraints for
their use. The university is compelled to fulfill difficult
political chores, and suffers the negative consequences of
an exaggerated ideologization and politization of its
problems. It must guarantee the positive aspects of a
university for the elite within the framework of a
university for the masses, and it combines the challenge of
achieving the highest possible academic standards with
diminishing budgets. (JDD)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Adjustment-to-Environment; Cultural
Differences; Economic-Development; Educational-Change;
Educational-Policy; Educational-Quality; Equal-Education;
Foreign-Countries; Political-Influences; Universities-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *College-Role; *Cultural-Context; *Higher
Education; *Institutional-Mission; *Social-Change
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