Social Indicators of the University Corporate Responsibility
Vevere, Velga |
Today there are many challenges the modern university faces related to globalization, immigration, economic recessions, fluctuation of number of students, shrinking support from the government, commercialization of higher education establishments, etc. One of the most significant tendencies in the development in the field is the increasing role of the corporate social responsibility (the university social responsibility, in particular). The aims of the present paper are two: first, to research he current literature on the changing social roles of the university in society, second, to describe the concept of university social responsibility (USR) and its various research frameworks. Its main objective to work out model to be tested in the further empirical research of the university social responsibility in Latvia.