Keeping the Doors Open: Access Programs and the Third Mission of Universities
Thursday, November 17, 2022 – Friday, November 18, 2022
Online Event
Who has access to university education? What is a university and what does it stand for? How can we reimagine the university in today’s world? What is the ‘Third Mission’ of universities, and how does it connect (or not) university to society? Can we rethink the university as an open society where education and knowledge take place in interaction with the communities around us?CEU’s Community Engagement Office invites OSUN community members to join a conversation where we seek to answer these questions in a series of panel debates and workshops. Speakers will include students and professors involved in access programs, as well as researchers and program managers.
We will begin by reflecting on the Third Mission of universities —service to society— after which we will examine the current state of university access programs across Western Europe and the US. Asking how we can keep the doors open to communities that have been traditionally excluded from higher education, the conference will also be an open space to rethink and reimagine this institution together.
The second day of the conference will also host a series of workshops with the Open Society Research Platform (OSRP) under the title ‘Knowledge practices and the university as an open society’ to explore the relationship between knowledge production, knowledge transmission and social critique, and the open, democratic, and inclusive organization of universities.
Other OSUN programs to be represented are The Socrates Project and OLIve at CEU/BCB; The Bard Prison Initiative; the Equal Opportunity Program at Sciences Po, and the Roma Access Program from CEU.
Program Schedule
Join via Zoom
For more information, call 845-758-6822,
or visit https://ceu-edu.zoom.us/j/92330580735?pwd=ZHVUZmduQ3NEWExjNXlabVB5MVZoQT09.
Location: Online Event