Anchored in Place : Rethinking the university and development in South Africa /

Tensions in South African universities have traditionally centred around equity (particularly access and affordability), historical legacies (such as apartheid and colonialism), and the shape and structure of the higher education system. What has not received sufficient attention, is the contributio...

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Other Authors: Van Schalkwyk, François (Editor), Cloete, Nico (Editor), Bank, Leslie (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • Approaches to the university, place and development / Leslie Bank
  • Universities as urban anchor institutions and the social contract in the developed world / David Perry & Natalia Villamizar-Duarte
  • Linking knowledge innovation and development in South Africa : national policy and regional variances / Samuel N. Fongwa
  • The engaged university and the specificity of place : The case of Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University / François van Schalkwyk & George de Lange
  • Challenges of university-city relationships : reflections from the University of the Witwatersrand and Johannesburg / Alan Mabin
  • Integrating the edges : University of Pretoria's neighbourhood anchor strategy / Denver Hendricks & Jaime Flaherty
  • Developing an innovation ecosystem through a university-coordinated innovation platform : the University of Fort Hare / Sara Grobbelaar
  • The University of Fort Hare in post-apartheid South Africa / Nico Cloete & Ian Bunting
  • University-community engagement as place-making? A case of the University of Fort Hare and Alice / Jay Thakrar
  • Innovation or anchor strategy? City-campus inner city regeneration in East London-Buffalo City / Leslie Bank & Francis Sibanda
  • The politics and pathology of place : student protests, collective consumption and the right to the city in East London / Leslie Bank & Mark Paterson
  • Anti-urbanism and nostalgia for a college town / Leslie Bank.