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    Curriculum, higher education, and the public good
    (2009) Hall, Budd L; Bhatt, Nandita; Lepore, Walter
    Curriculum change in higher education is an extremely complex process. Influences on the content of what is taught in higher education include new knowledge coming from the various academic disciplines, from the regulatory bodies of many of the professions, from national calls for action, from global challenges, from social movements of the day. This chapter argues that in the search for excellence, engagement and social responsibility that there is no contradiction between responding to local calls for action and global matters. Illustrations of curriculum change which attend to both the local and the global include classroom changes, single university changes, system-wide changes in Canada, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand. We call for more attention to community engaged learning and the creation of central offices for community university engagement.
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    Preparing the next generation of researchers
    (UNESCO Chair, 2020-06-23) Bhatt, Nandita
    This report covers a June 2020 webinar hosted by the K4C Raipur hub, known as Sangwari, part of the Knowledge for Change Global Consortium that Rajesh Tandon and Budd Hall established in 2017. The session drew on presentations from hub coordinators, PRSU Vice-Chancellor Keshari Lal Verma, and student researchers, set against the backdrop of COVID-19 and its disproportionate impact on vulnerable communities. The hub turns to its focus on training the next generation of community-based researchers, holding that integrating community-university engagement into core academic work, rather than treating it as a side activity, is what strengthens a university's social responsibility. The report reviews student-led projects tied to SDG 5, SDG 8, and SDG 17, including a study on antenatal healthcare access among rural women in Chhattisgarh, work on sexual harassment awareness among young female athletes, and a planned study on the pandemic's impact on informal women workers. It closes with remarks from Hall pointing to the hub's use of arts-based methods and local language as a model other K4C hubs can draw from.