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A Study Of American Research Universities Social Services Functions

Posted on:2012-12-03Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X L DiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2217330338462736Subject:Educational Economy and Management
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The three basic functions of the modern university are teaching, scientific research and social services. American University is the first one to have the function of social services. American University's function of social service is not produced at its birth, but is gradually shown with development of the society, politics, economics, cultural and higher education of its own. The development of university is consciously integratied into the development of society. University must not only assume responsibility of social services, but also to find the best way to serve society. The Chinese universities inherited the traditional Chinese culture, and learned the University of Western philosophy, so the social service functions of universities has been raised to unprecedented heights.This paper through comparing social service functions between history and now U.S. public research universities, summed up the characteristics of American public research university's social services functions, analyzed factors that affecting the process of practicing social service functions and pointed out what to do for Chinese research universities.The study is consisted by the following four components:The first chapter is the introduction, overviewing the origin and meaning of the topic, reviewing study of social service functions which focuses on the U.S. public research university, and pointed out the deficiencies of existing research, clarified research ideas of this paper.The second chapter is the research of status of social service function of the U.S. public research university. I reviewed the study of social service functions, used the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Pennsylvania State University, University of California, Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University as examples for analyzing differences of the social services functions between historical and current U.S. public research university, and concluded characteristics of social services that the U.S. public research university had.The third chapter analyzed factors that affecting the process of practicing social service functions. From macro-factors:Pragmatism Thoughts and the development of U.S. society and national policy; From micro-factors:the mission of university, principals, staff and students, analyzed influencing factors of practicing in the social service functions.The fourth chapter is the reference of American Research Universities social services functions. Using Fudan University, Zhejiang University and Shandong University for example, the paper showed achievements and shortcomings of Chinese public research universitise'social service functions, and pointed out what to do for chinese research universities.
Keywords/Search Tags:University functions, American public research university, social service function
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