Higher Education, Community Engagement and the World We Want: A Policy Brief to the World Conference on Higher Education

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2009-06

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Global Alliance on Community Engaged Research

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At this critical time in human and sustainable development for the world, it is imperative that we harness the potential of community higher education partnerships to inform progress. There is a large aggregate trend to unite civil society and higher education institutions and networks in common efforts to co-create knowledge, mobilize it to inform practice and policy, and enhance the social, economic and environmental conditions of people, communities, nations and the world. However, these efforts are fragmented and face many unnecessary barriers. We therefore propose an Action Plan for University-Community Engagement for Societal Change and Development, one that unleashes the resources of higher education and government, in collaboration with civil society and its socio-economic development actors to create the sustainable world we want.

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community engagement, policy brief, university-community partnerships, civil society, higher education, societal change

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Gobal Alliance on Community Engaged Research. (June 2009). Higher Education, Community Engagement and the World We Want: A Policy Brief to the World Conference on Higher Education.