The Policy Impact of Universities in Developing Regions

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Potential University Contributions to Development Policy Making....Pages 13-26
Academic Involvement in Developing Areas: Small Efforts for a Huge Task....Pages 27-41
New Technologies, Old Universities and Democratic Societies....Pages 42-56
Specialization and the Problem of Communication within and across Academic Disciplines....Pages 57-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-71
Indian Universities and the Urban Environment....Pages 73-85
An Urban University Wrestles with its Environment: the Case of Columbia University in the City of New York....Pages 86-102
Information, Development and the Urban University: Redistributive Power in a Developed Nation....Pages 103-115
Front Matter....Pages 117-117
Developing a University Policy Studies Program....Pages 119-139
Public Service Education and the University’s Role in Development Management....Pages 140-155
The Negev Primary Care Project: A Meeting of Medical Education and Health Services in the Community....Pages 156-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Cosmopolitanism and Indigenization in Third World Higher Education: A Case Study of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia....Pages 169-185
International Transfers of Educational Forms: the Case of the People’s Republic of China....Pages 186-195
The Development Role of the University of Norrland....Pages 196-209
Universities, Politics and Development: The Case of Northern Ontario....Pages 210-222
Planning for Services and Labor Force Training on the Canadian Frontier....Pages 223-234
Priority Conflicts in a New University: The Case of Ben Gurion University of the Negev....Pages 235-244
Back Matter....Pages 245-251