Knowledge Without Boundaries: What America's Research Universities Can Do for the Economy, the Workplace, and the Community (Jossey-Bass Higher and)

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Summary: What Universities Might Do Better for Their Communities
Review: An industrial sociologist by training, now Associate Vice Chancellor for Extended Studies and Public Service at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Walshok begins by challenging universities, exploring the social uses of knowledge, assessing the new knowledge needs of diverse populations, and providing a matrix approach to matching university resources to community knowledge needs. In the second half of the book she focuses on special economic, human, and civic benefits, and ends with her bottom line: neither communities, nor universities, can learn in isolation.