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In the Caribbean, universities must take on some of the roles filled by governments in other societies - for example, finding solutions to problems as diverse as gun crime and the preservation of forests.Meanwhile, universities from wealthy nations that see the region only as a source of revenue could stir up resentment.
Those are the views of E. Nigel Harris, vice-chancellor of the University of the West Indies (UWI), an institution that was established under British rule in 1948, originally as an external college of the University of London.
Since then, the university has spread across three campuses in Jamaica, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago, and it serves about 46,000 students from 15 countries in the English-speaking Caribbean.
Harris' close interest in the role of universities in developing societies was reflected in his election in April as chairman of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).
He wants the ACU to speak up in key debates on the worldwide trend towards higher tuition fees, and to find common ground between universities in the developed and developing worlds.
Harris, who was born in Guyana and obtained a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania, believes that universities in the developed world should take a partnership approach to international expansion.
The aim should be mutually beneficial links in "research and knowledge development" rather than income generation, he says.
One can get a sense of what Harris has in mind by looking at the work being done at the University of the West Indies.
The focus of the institution's research is different from what one might find at a research university in the US or the UK.
The University of the West Indies must address the region's social problems, says Harris, citing issues such as gun crime and other violence, and school dropout rates. "Our research thrust is more in the areas of applied research. How do we make a difference to the lives of people in this part of the world?
"In other countries there are thinktanks that develop such thinking, but in our part of the world the university has taken on that role."
It is in that context that Harris sees the university's expansion into distance learning.
"We have created a fourth campus at UWI along the lines of The Open University. We want to give a second bite of the apple ... to the big proportion of students who never finished high school.
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