Re-imagining the Social Purpose of Universities through Engagement
In this paper (published in 2017 in a Council of Europe publication titled Higher Education for Diversity, Social Inclusion and Community: a Democratic Imperative), Prof AC Bawa argues that the increasing legitimacy gap and the growing distrust in higher education, its scholarship and its intellectuals may be at the heart of what is driving the serious and diverse challenges being experienced by universities in many parts of the world.