Universities with a Social Purpose: Intentions, Achievements and Challenges

This book is a narrative of conversations between two professors, with different backgrounds, academic disciplines, life experiences, and from different continents. It shows how their discourse has brought them to a single destination defined by a mutual interest in the social purposes of universities, and a hope in common that their academic efforts will somehow do good in the world.

The seventeen internationally-agreed Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide focus for aspirations an...