What Could a University Be?

Revolutionary Ideas for the Future

Students are not clients, job seekers, or consumers. Their purpose is the pursuit of knowledge. So why do universities largely restrict inquiry to professors and graduate students? In What Could a University Be? Robert Gibbs imagines a university focused on engaging students in research at all levels and across all faculties, including professional schools.

Gibbs proposes a widely applicable model that reverses the traditional top-down flow by teaching students how to conduct research and become knowledge creators rather than passive recipients. His future university embraces different perspectives on what knowledge is and draws its research questions from the society around it.

What Could a University Be? will change how readers understand teaching, research, the kinds of thinking in which students should engage, and the role of the university in solving the many challenges of our time.

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