Role of the university in national development

Abstract

In his opening address at the World University Service Assembly's conference on "The University's Role in the Development of New Countries" in Dar-es-Salaam on June 27, 1966, President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania and Chancellor of the University of East Africa said: "The University in a developing society must put the emphasis of its work on subjects of immediate moment to the nation in which it exists, and it must be committed to the people of that nation and their humanistic goals. . . .We in poor societies can only justify expenditure on a University-of any type-if it promotes real development of our people.....The role of a University in a developing nation is to contribute; to give ideas, manpower, and service for furtherance of human equality, human dignity and human development.