multiversity


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a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers

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What the multiversity does very poorly (when it does it at all), in short, is raise questions of transcendence.
Fallis argues that the large multiversity is an essential research and knowledge institution connected to society in a social contract.
The central position is occupied by the Essence of Multiversity.
Present in the meeting are leaders from Urban Poor Associates, Community Organizers Multiversity (CO Multiversity), and Ugnayang Lakas ng mga Apektadong Pamilya (ULAP).
More recently, Kerr's (1963) The Uses of the University argues that the modern university is in fact more like a "multiversity" with no single animating principle, but rather with a multiplicity of missions that respond to its multiple stakeholders.
Finally, Kerr's The Uses of the University (1963) is a proposal that a single institution, the "multiversity, " (3) can perform multiple missions to benefit society.
The result is the multiversity with its "multiplicity of functions" and its "morass of muddled missions."
The groups present at the activity included the Alliance of Bangsamoro Organizations for Peace and Development; ALL OUT PEACE!; Al Mujadila Development Foundation; Balay Rehabilitation Center; BAWGBUG Advocates for Peace and Human Rights; Center for Peace Education; Community Organizers' Multiversity; Consortium of Bangsamoro Civil Society; Gaston Z.
Attending to such absences is admittedly a tall order, and probably will do little to arrest the growing impulse to evict the theoretical vandals from the multiversity, but it will make for a better book, perhaps even one an intellectual exile would pack in advance of a long trip.
The notion of Kerr (1963) that the Multiversity was a structural description of the many changes that had occurred as a result of the increased federal and state support for higher education, trends toward massification, and the increasing number of constituents who had a stake in college and university operations.
The event was sponsored by the Urban Poor Associates (UPA), Community Organizers Multiversity (COM), Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA).
Liberal education, whether housed in the small, residential college or the expansive multiversity, is believed to inculcate democratic values (Lang, 1999), developing in students a critical intelligence, and a belief in the value of knowledge "for its own sake." Liberal learning "prizes curiosity" and "by its nature, therefore, liberal learning is global and pluralistic" (AAC&U, 1999, p.
Gustavo Gutierrez, then 72, proudly Peruvian and known as the "father of liberation theology." He was here as a guest of the CO Multiversity then headed by Dinky Soliman, now social welfare secretary.
One was the increased "fractionalization" of the universities and the creation of a new kind of "multiversity." Kerr wrote, "The university started out as a single community...