[csaa-forum] Call for papers Transformations; regional universities and communities

[Warwick Mules]

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
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