Title:
Academic responsibility: The changing mission of HE
Author:
Chris Brink
Published:
University World News, 21 January 2021
From the article:
A profound change is taking place in our understanding of the mission of higher education. Increasingly, we have realised that academic freedom must be accompanied by the exercise of academic responsibility, in the sense of making a contribution to civil society. Actively responding to societal challenges is one way of doing so – as many universities have demonstrated in the case of COVID-19.