Social contracts and university public service; the case of agriculture and schooling.

Journal of Higher Education | November 1, 1993| | Copyright

Public service programs define one set of terms by which universities negotiate -- and must continue to negotiate -- their social and political contracts with the public. Over the past several decades, these contracts have been challenged by ongoing social and technological change [28, 45], by internal changes in the structure of the university [10, 28, 44], and by the need to assimilate new generations of students and faculty members into campus cultures and the academic marketplace. Other challenges to these contracts include the increasing specialization of academic ...

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