Imagining the University

<p>Around the world what it is to be a university is a matter of much debate. The range of ideas of the university in public circulation is however exceedingly narrow and is dominated by the idea of the entrepreneurial university. As a consequence the debate is hopelessly impoverished. Lurking in the literature there is a broad and even imaginative array of ideas of the university but those ideas are seldom heard. We need consequently not just more ideas of the university but <i>better</i> ideas. </p><p>Imagining the University forensically examines this situation critically interrogating many of the current ideas of the university. <i>Imagining the University</i> argues for imaginative ideas that are critical sensitive to the deep structures underlying universities and are yet optimistic in short <i>feasible utopias</i> of the university. The case is pressed for one such idea that of the ecological university. The book concludes by offering a vision of the imagining university a university that has the capacity continually to re-imagine itself.</p>