The university as a social economy: Jane Smiley’sMoo

1997 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-78
Author(s):  
Warren Samuels ◽  
Sylvia Samuels
Keyword(s):  
Social Economy ◽  
The University

scholarly journals The society of the debacle: Triptych of the discourse of the university

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-142
Author(s):  
Nikola Janovic
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Good Alternative ◽  
Global Crisis ◽  
Social Link ◽  
The University

The main intention of this text is to present three inter-connected projections of the current global crisis of the postmodern capitalism: discursive, sociological and cultural/political. Discursive projection is considering the crisis of the postmodern capitalism through the perspective of the discursive paradigmatic restructuring (social link), sociological projection is giving interpretation of the postmodern social economy paradigm (society of knowledge), whilst the cultural/political projection is discussing the postmodern ideological forms of everyday life (cultural capitalism). In the last instance, all three are raising a question: Is there any good alternative?

Social Responsibility as a Precondition of Innovation in Higher Education

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-74
Author(s):  
Matjaž Mulej ◽  
Miro Mihec
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Interdisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Organizational Attributes ◽  
Seven Principles ◽  
The University ◽  
Manage Innovation

The word innovation defines both the process and its outcome. Here, the authors focus on the innovation process in terms of its human success preconditions attained by practicing social responsibility (SR). In the globally passed/valid ISO 26.000, SR's essence lies in synergy of: (1) one's responsibility for one's impact on society; (2) interdependence; and (3) a holistic approach; seven principles, i.e. human and organizational attributes support SR behavior. With them, the innovation process is easier to manage. Innovation is complex: one of 3.000 ideas becomes innovation. It includes many phases and different professions practicing SR to support holistic behavior preventing failures. On the other hand, higher education works per specialized faculties, etc., making SR hard to practice, but possible. Usual curricula favor narrow specialty without creative interdisciplinary cooperation. Due to lack of holism, interdependence, and responsibility, higher education offers more inventions than innovations. Cases cover the University of Maribor and the Association Social Economy Slovenia.

scholarly journals Development of Metric Assessment for Sustainable University

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3S3) ◽  
pp. 82-87
Keyword(s):  
Research Universities ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Bench Mark ◽  
Sustainability Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
University Community

Awareness towards the enviroment by the university community has started since 1970 through various activities such as ‘Earth Day’celebration. The aim of such activities was to make sure that the university emphasized on the sustainanble practices among the community in preserving the enviroment. The initiative to transform the local university to a sustainable university has been carried out by a number of research universities, namely; UTM, UKM, USM, UPM, and UM. This can be seen in various efforts carried out by the university such as setting up research centre solely for the enviroment; carrying out activities for sustainable university, forming sustainability policy and etc. However all these efforts would be furtile if a metric was not used to measure the level of sustainability to evaluate through practices at the university. A research has been done to develop a metric evaluation for sustainable university that has characteristics of sustainability. This research is carried out by interviewing 13 sustainability experts who are well-werse in the field of social economy and enviroment. The outcome of the research are the characteristics and sub elements of a sustainable university together with a comprehensive metric evaluation. This metric evaluation will function as a bench mark to observe the initiative level of sustainability at UTM as well as other local universities. This metric would guide universities to assess the level of sustainability of the university.

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 543-545
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Government Policy ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Government Failure ◽  
Boston University ◽  
Visible Hand ◽  
Policy Conflicts ◽  
Private Incentives ◽  
The University

Ingo Vogelsang of Boston University reviews “Government Failure: Society, Markets and Rules”, by Wilfred Dolfsma. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Considers when and how a government can fail at its core responsibility of formulating rules. Discusses how market and society relate; government policy—private incentives, public virtues?; government failure; policy conflicts—the case of health care; government failure, intellectual property rights, and economic development; a confused market—divergent routes to implementing market-oriented reform in health care; vulnerability of institutions and rules; establishing government failure or success—a dynamic welfare perspective; and market, business, and government. Includes a paper on the G-Factor—weighing the visible hand of government intervention (Killian J. McCarthy and Tao Zhu). Dolfsma is at the University of Groningen, and is Corresponding Editor of the Review of Social Economy.”

scholarly journals The Impact of a Community-University Collaboration: Opening the “Black Box”

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Graduate Program ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Academic Program ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Complex Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACTWithin the Social Economy, universities are working with community representatives to undertake research projects, service learning opportunities, and increasingly, academic program development, all with the objective of addressing social challenges. As many are quick to caution, the community is actually a sum of its various actors, interests, accountabilities and needs, which university staff and faculty must work to understand. Like the community, the university is a complex organization with politics, conflicts, tensions, and competing goals and objectives. Within this larger context, these various components, focusing on government, academic and administrative stakeholders, will impact and may even limit aspects of a collaboration between the university and its community partners. Through examination of a case study related to a graduate program, which was collaboratively developed between the university and community representatives, this article will identify and explore those accountabilities and the resulting impact on the collaboration. It will conclude withrecommendations for similar partnerships.RÉSUMÉDans l’économie sociale, les universités travaillent de pair avec des représentants de la communauté pour lancer des projets de recherche, créer des occasions d’apprentissage par le service et, de plus en plus, développer des programmes d’études universitaires; tout cela dans le but de régler des défis sociaux. Beaucoup s’empressent de formuler une mise en garde : la communauté est en réalité la somme des divers acteurs, intérêts, responsabilités et besoins qui la composent, ce que les membres du personnel et les facultés des universités doivent tenter de comprendre par leur travail. Au même titre qu’une communauté, une université est une organisation complexe constituée de politiques, de conflits, de tensions ainsi que d’objectifs concurrents. Dans ce contexte large, ces diverses composantes, en particulier les intervenants gouvernementaux, universitaires et administratifs, auront des conséquences sur la collaboration entre l’université et ses partenaires communautaires, et peuvent même en limiter certains aspects. Cette étude définit et analyse ces responsabilités et leurs conséquences sur la collaboration par le moyen d’une étude de cas liée à un programme d’études supérieures développé grâce à la collaboration de l’université et des représentants de la communauté. L’étude se termine par des recommandations visant des partenariats similaires.

scholarly journals Social entrepreneurship as a tool for promoting critical, paradoxical learning in the field of business organization and management: An experiment from the University of Zaragoza

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ignacio Bretos ◽  
Millán Díaz-Foncea ◽  
Clara Sarasa ◽  
Alla Kristina Lozenko ◽  
Carmen Marcuello
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Business Organization ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Critical Knowledge ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Production ◽  
The University

There is a growing interest in examining subversive interventions by scholars that may involve the production of new subjectivities, the constitution of new organizational models, and the linking of these models with current social movements. This paper presents the case of the Social Economy Lab (LAB_ES), created in the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Zaragoza in 2017. In particular, we discuss the main experiences and interventions made from the LAB_ES around three areas of work: (1) the space of collective work; (2) the space of participation for the university community; and (3) the space of collective research. The study reflects the possibilities of including the study of alternative organizations in the education agenda. These organizations are guided by principles that include democracy, equality, emancipation and environmental sustainability. Likewise, the results and interventions of the LAB_ES are discussed not only to foster critical thinking among the students, but also to provide this group with skills for starting up alternative projects of organization and management outside the university. Finally, some key conclusions are drawn about the role of the LAB_ES as a space for collective research and collective production of critical knowledge about business organization and management, through the involvement of different actors.

Proceedings of The Modern Language Association of America

PMLA ◽  
1935 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 1343-1343
Keyword(s):  
Modern Language Association ◽  
Modern Language ◽  
Local Committee ◽  
Tuesday Morning ◽  
University Of Cincinnati ◽  
The University ◽  
Plaza Hotel

The fifty-second meeting of the Modern Language Associationof America was held, on the invitation of the University of Cincinnati, at Cincinnati, Ohio, Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, December 30 and 31, 1935, and January 1, 1936. The Association headquarters were in the Netherland Plaza Hotel, where all meetings were held except those of Tuesday morning and afternoon. These took place at the University of Cincinnati. Registration cards at headquarters were signed by about 900, though a considerably larger number of members were in attendance. The Local Committee estimated the attendance at not less than 1400. This Committee consisted of Professor Frank W. Chandler, Chairman; Professor Edwin H. Zeydel; Professor Phillip Ogden; Mr. John J. Rowe (for the Directors); and Mr. Joseph S. Graydon (for the Alumni).

Spectrophotometric reductions with an IBM 1620

1966 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 116-117
Author(s):  
P.-I. Eriksson
Keyword(s):  
Astronomical Data ◽  
Spectrophotometric Data ◽  
Electronic Computers ◽  
The University ◽  
Near Future

Nowadays more and more of the reductions of astronomical data are made with electronic computers. As we in Uppsala have an IBM 1620 at the University, we have taken it to our help with reductions of spectrophotometric data. Here I will briefly explain how we use it now and how we want to use it in the near future.

Novae in the Magellanic Clouds

1979 ◽  
Vol 46 ◽  
pp. 96-101
Author(s):  
J.A. Graham
Keyword(s):  
Large Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Cloud ◽  
Magellanic Clouds ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
The Past ◽  
Spectroscopic Information ◽  
Objective Prism ◽  
The University ◽  
Small Cloud ◽  
Low Dispersion

During the past several years, a systematic search for novae in the Magellanic Clouds has been carried out at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. The Curtis Schmidt telescope, on loan to CTIO from the University of Michigan is used to obtain plates every two weeks during the observing season. An objective prism is used on the telescope. This provides additional low-dispersion spectroscopic information when a nova is discovered. The plates cover an area of 5°x5°. One plate is sufficient to cover the Small Magellanic Cloud and four are taken of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an overlap so that the central bar is included on each plate. The methods used in the search have been described by Graham and Araya (1971). In the CTIO survey, 8 novae have been discovered in the Large Cloud but none in the Small Cloud. The survey was not carried out in 1974 or 1976. During 1974, one nova was discovered in the Small Cloud by MacConnell and Sanduleak (1974).

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