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Strong Cities and the New Leadership Role for Urban Universities

Universities have always served their communities by providing an educated workforce, and contributing to the knowledge base of a community through its consulting work to government and business, and generally by being part of the social fabric of a community.

Increasingly however, like the land-grant colleges of an earlier era, universities in urban and metropolitan settings are being looked to for unique leadership as communities make the transition from a postindustrial economy and society to a new uncertain age in the wake of globalization.

Some universities have already started to more actively engage their communities in meaningful ways– serving on various local boards and commissions, and significantly, creating new research parks and centers involving the business community. Now, however, in the wake of a basic shift in the structure of the world economy, cities across America are looking to their universities to be principal allies and agents of change.

By John M. Eger

Full Story: http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/95541

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