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Date: Dec 17, 2004

What is a university?

Date: Dec 17, 2004

A university is its faculty. And the faculty is leaving this one asap!

Date: Dec 17, 2004

Hmm, did you count the hits?

And please note that

Your search - "a university is its administration" - did not match any documents.

Date: Dec 17, 2004

And check out "a university is its students." Only 16 hits, and even then when you read the longer phrases you'll get such phrases as "an important part of a university is its students."

Date: Dec 17, 2004

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It's not like we're dealing with a fringe element here.

Date: Dec 17, 2004

The Idea of a University, 1854

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/newman/newman-university.html

Date: Dec 17, 2004

Didn't Mrs. Dr. Dvorak, JD, tell us a university is "about wealth creation"?

Date: Dec 17, 2004

I hate to differ with the university is the faculty, but the global issue is what is postsecondary education? To answer that I have to go back and think about what every part of the institution supports and that is free exchange of ideas. The problem has been that your freedoms, as faculty and support and some parts of administration (not the top dogs), have been usurped. That's why the faculty are leaving USM, the fascist regime has disallowed this free exchange of ideas and the exodous is similar to refugees looking for a country that will not deny their human rights.

Date: Dec 17, 2004

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Originally posted by: interested bystander
"I hate to differ with the university is the faculty, but the global issue is what is postsecondary education? To answer that I have to go back and think about what every part of the institution supports and that is free exchange of ideas. The problem has been that your freedoms, as faculty and support and some parts of administration (not the top dogs), have been usurped. That's why the faculty are leaving USM, the fascist regime has disallowed this free exchange of ideas and the exodous is similar to refugees looking for a country that will not deny their human rights. "

"I. What Is A University?

If I were asked to describe as briefly and popularly as I could, what a University was, I should draw my answer from its ancient designation of a Studium Generale, or "School of Universal Learning." This description implies the assemblage of strangers from all parts in one spot; - from all parts; else, how will you find professors and students for every department of knowledge? and in one spot; else, how can there be any school at all? Accordingly, in its simple and rudimental form, it is a school of knowledge of every kind, consisting of teachers and learners from every quarter. Many things are requisite to complete and satisfy the idea embodied in this description; but such as this a University seems to be in its essence, a place for the communication and circulation of thought, by means of personal intercourse, through a wide extent of country." See above link from 1854