What we are calling for is a university whose democratic responsibilities are revivified by its animating purpose: what Daniel Coit Gilman, founding president of the Johns Hopkins University, described as the "acquisition, conservation, refinement, and distribution of knowledge."

The University Run Amok

The authors, both from the University of Virginia, of the article are questioning the expanding roles that the University is undertaking and think the University should focus on the above quote but I think the Internet has eroded the role of the University as the keeper of knowledge. Anyway....