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posted on Nov. 22: Board chair predicts shift in role of post-secondary education

The new knowledge-based economy will shift the role of a post-secondary education from imparting new knowledge to a focus on teaching, the chair of the University's Board of Governors says. Douglas Barber believes the "knowledgeable society" of the future will look to academics less for new knowledge and much more for teaching. "That teaching will not only be about what is known, but it will also be teaching young people to discover what isn't yet known -- the skills of research," he said. "That teaching will also have to be broader and more liberal while still providing excellence of specialization." Society will continue to look to academics, Barber added, "for the radical new thinking and discovery that comes from those exceptional, broad-minded, widely learned young people of uncommon genius."