Challenges and Opportunities for Higher Education


by Jacquelyn McCroskey - 2003

The next section of this chapter examines sources of dissonance between research universities and community-based efforts to implement interprofessional collaboration and comprehensive services. Subsequent sections describe perspectives on university engagement and examine the unique challenges universities face when engaged in these collaborative practices. The chapter concludes with ideas about bridging the gap and bringing the potential power of higher education more centrally into the emerging interprofessional movement to improve the lives of children and families in communities across the nation.

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This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol. 102, No. 2.


Cite This Article as: Teachers College Record Volume 105 Number 11, 2003, p. 117-139
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