New Report: Role and Impact of College and Universities in Greater Boston Today

Posted by on April 7, 2006

[posted from Higher Ed Service-Learning listserv]

The Goldberg Seminar report, “A New Era of Higher Education – Community Partnerships: The Role and Impact of Colleges and Universities in Greater Boston Today” is now available online at http://www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=1705

The Carol R. Goldberg Seminar is a periodic convening of local business, government, academic, civic, and community leaders that raises awareness about critical civic issues and offers a roadmap by which leaders might achieve progress against those issues. In 2003, the Goldberg Seminar was reconvened to examine the role and impact of colleges and universities in Greater Boston. This topic was chosen in recognition of the increasingly important function of academia in todays knowledge economy and civic life. The Seminar also sought to provide a context for a growing chorus of calls for colleges and universities to exert more active civic leadership in the wake of recent corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ultimately, the Seminar sought to better quantify the emerging trend toward higher education-community partnerships and help local leaders continue to move beyond historic town-gown tensions.

The Seminar was chaired by Richard M. Freeland, President of Northeastern University, and Thomas Finneran, President of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and guided by a steering committee. The Seminar’s work is outlined in a report: “A New Era of Higher Education-Community Partnerships: The Role and Impact of Colleges and Universities in Greater Boston Today” available at http://www.tbf.org/tbfgen1.asp?id=1705