大学与社会的服务关系.doc

Assignment Titles: Should Universities serve society and in what ways can this achieved? Abstract: This paper explored the question whether universities should serve society. By the reviewing of university developing history and analyzing some support theories, the positive answer has been given. Then the approaches for improving this service have been proposed in two sides; one is improving universities functions such as individual education and public education; the other side is the policy support from society. Introduction: As a part of human society, university has played different roles since it happened. It has been reported that in the history, university has distanced itself from human society but sometimes it kept close to the society actively or even in an ultra way such as revolution. In the other words, university varies its association with society between social and academic. No matter which position the university was, the influence of the university on human society were significant and nonignorable. Some scholars support that as an academic institution, university should not serve society but to conduct research and academic studies. However, other experts argue that universities should serve society and cater demands of society. In my position, this service can be achieved directly. For example, training the manpower the society need or work out the unemployment problems. Also it can be achieved indirectly which means keep academic. In this essay, I will prove my position by presenting a review of the relationship between society and university in different history period and analyzing the General system theory (Bertalanffy, 1968), Ashby as well as Marxs theories. Then illustrate my ideas and examples on how universities service can be achieved The idea about the university’s function is changing and developing. In order to exploring the relationship between university and society we should bate back to the human history to look for the associat