Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- CHAPTER TWO A new structure, a new language and a new Vice-Chancellor
- CHAPTER THREE The academic community and its environment
- CHAPTER FOUR The University in its local, national and international contexts
- CHAPTER FIVE Ten turbulent years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
CHAPTER FOUR - The University in its local, national and international contexts
from PART TWO
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations
- PART ONE
- PART TWO
- CHAPTER TWO A new structure, a new language and a new Vice-Chancellor
- CHAPTER THREE The academic community and its environment
- CHAPTER FOUR The University in its local, national and international contexts
- CHAPTER FIVE Ten turbulent years
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
It is our intention in the future for the University to play a much more prominent role in the affairs of Merseyside than it has done in the recent past. We feel that the expertise and resources available within the University should be used wherever possible to assist with the regeneration of Merseyside.
(The new Vice-Chancellor, Professor Graeme Davies, in his first address to Court, 28 November 1986).One of the first things Graeme Davies did after taking up his appointment on 1 April 1986 was to give an interview to Bob Azurdia on Radio Merseyside. In this interview he set out quite deliberately to present a positive and optimistic view of universities in general, and Liverpool in particular, and to make it quite clear that under his leadership Liverpool would extend its existing links with and involvement in the local community. He intended that there would be a much more ‘open door’ approach to access to the University from outside, and that it would become Liverpool's University, rather than the University in Liverpool. His sense of mission and of commitment to the area was already apparent.
When he arrived, he found there was a lot of work already being done by staff on an individual level linking the University with the community, but the institutional role he was looking for was not there. There was no official link, for example, with the local Chamber of Commerce – though Shane Guy, the Administrative Secretary, was a member; nor with the local authority, following the rise of Militant in city politics. Many of the leading figures in the city had never met the Vice-Chancellor.
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- Decade of ChangeThe University of Liverpool 1981-1991, pp. 95 - 117Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1994