Blogs by Theme - Universities' Third Mission

Global Alliance for Community Engaged Research has new facebook page

Posted May 30, 2011 - 15:11 by Budd Hall

GA has set up a facebook page that anyone and everyone can post items to and make comments. Thanks to Nirmala Lall for taking the initiative.

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Report on the Canadian Community-University Exposition 2011

Posted May 30, 2011 - 15:06 by Budd Hall

Jazzing up Community University Partnerships at CU Expo 2011
By Catherine Etmanski , University of Victoria
With the assistance of Heather McRae, Joanna Ochocka, Sarena Seifer, and Budd Hall

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The Community Engagement and Service Mission of Universities

Posted May 17, 2011 - 18:01 by Hans Schuetze

Almost exactly two years after the PASCAL annual conference on the 'third mission' of universities, held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, UBC's Vice President for legal and external affairs and community relations hosted a book launching ceremony and reception for approximately 65 persons, including the Dean of Education and representatives of several other universities and civic institutions in the Lower Mainland.

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U-Multirank: Multi- dimensional Global ranking of Universities; a feasibility project.

Posted April 12, 2011 - 11:44 by Mike Osborne

This is a project funded by the European Commission led by a consortium headed by CHEPS in the Netherlands. It is concerned with field-based ranking of HEIs.

According to the project's website:

U-Map - a European classification of higher education institutions

Posted April 11, 2011 - 15:50 by Mike Osborne

U-Map is a project funded by the European Commission in which earlier work concerned with the European classification of higher education institutions is further developed and implemented. U-Map offers two tools to enhance transparency. ProfileFinder produces a list of higher education institutions (HEIs) that are comparable on the characteristics that have been selected. ProfileViewer gives an institutional activity profile that can used to compare three HEIs. U-Map is presented in demo-mode.