Progress Report on the Social Role of Colleges With Dr. Gavin Moodie

This reports progress with the project to institutionalise colleges’ social role: community colleges and similar types of institutions’ support of social, education, and cultural development in their local communities and regions.

The roles of colleges have alternatively been considered so multifarious that they cannot discharge any satisfactorily, or so narrowly concentrated on filling employers’ needs that they overlook other important roles. These different conceptions of colleges’ roles vary by time and place.

This analyses explorations of colleges’ social role in the seminar series so far, in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Switzerland, and the USA.