[eccr] Call for papers Transformations; regional universities and communities

>Transformations; region, culture, society announces a new call for papers 
>for a forthcoming issue on regional universities and communities:
>
>Submissions due: 31st July, 2004.
>
>http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations
>
>'Town and Gown' in the Bush:
>Contemporary Regional Universities and Transforming Communities
>
>This special theme issue of Transformations provides a forum for multiple 
>engagements with the relationships (or lack thereof) between contemporary 
>regional universities and their communities, whether in Australia or in 
>other countries. While several discourses can be discerned in these 
>relationships, commentators on regional universities and communities 
>commonly invoke at least two distinct narratives:
>& Regional universities, like their communities, are marginalised and 
>under threat, and their best chance for survival lies in working together 
>to create alternative opportunities and futures.
>& Regional universities, like their metropolitan counterparts, must 
>increasingly adopt free market ideologies and practices whereby regional 
>communities will be sidelined unless they can compete with national and 
>international clients in accessing services from 'their' universities.
>In interrogating, contesting and reconstructing these discourses, the 
>authors of the articles in this issue will address three key questions 
>currently confronting regional universities and their communities:
>& What are the identities and the missions of contemporary regional 
>universities?
>& How are those identities and missions manifested in the universities' 
>negotiated relationships with their communities, only some of which might 
>also be regional?
>& What are the implications of those relationships for the likely future 
>sustainability and survival of both regional universities and communities?
>In seeking to address these questions, the issue is also directed at 
>re-examining the concept of 'transformations' in regional communities in 
>the early 21st century. Transformations, understood as permanent and 
>substantial changes and improvements, are crucial for the ongoing 
>development of individuals and groups. Yet often these transformations 
>occur in spite of, not because of, the planned interventions of 
>institutions. So it is vital, now more than ever before, to understand the 
>drivers, influences and potential outcomes of and on genuinely meaningful 
>and productive transformations in regional communities. Within that quest 
>for understanding, a process of evaluating the roles and responsibilities 
>of regional universities and communities with regard to themselves and to 
>one another is a worthwhile endeavour.
>
>Prospective authors are hereby invited to contact the issue editors to 
>discuss their ideas for possible contributions. It is hoped that the issue 
>will represent a range of regional institutions, including from countries 
>other than Australia. Professor Moya L. Andrews,
>Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties at the 
>Bloomington Campus of Indiana University in the United States of America 
>has agreed to take on the role of respondent to the issue.
>
>Editors
>Jenny Simpson, Geoff Danaher
>and Patrick Alan Danaher
>Central Queensland University
>Australia
>
>Correspondence Address
>Ms Jenny Simpson
>Division of Teaching and Learning Services
>Rockhampton Campus
>Central Queensland University
>North Rockhampton   QLD   4701
>Australia
>E-mail: (j.simpson /at/ cqu.edu.au)
>Telephone:      (07) 4930 9057
>Facsimile:      (07) 4930 6306
>or contact general editor, Warwick Mules (reply to this email)
>
>
>
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>Dr. Warwick Mules
>Senior Lecturer
>Cultural Studies
>Editor Transformations
>http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations
>School of Humanities
>Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences
>Central Queensland University
>Bundaberg campus,
>Locked Bag 3333 DC
>Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia  4670
>email: (w.mules /at/ cqu.edu.au)
>Phone: 0741 507142
>Mobile: 04122 92541
>Fax:   0741 507080
>(Callers outside Australia replace the leading zero with 61)
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