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<div><i>Transformations; region, culture, society</i> announces a new
call for papers for a forthcoming issue on regional universities and
communities:</div>
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<div>Submissions due: 31st July, 2004.</div>
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<div>http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations</div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"><b>'Town
and Gown' in the Bush:<br>
Contemporary Regional Universities and Transforming Communities<br>
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</b>This special theme issue of<i> Transformations</i> provides a
forum for multiple engagements with the relationships (or lack
thereof) between contemporary regional universities and their
communities, whether in Australia or in other countries. While several
discourses can be discerned in these relationships, commentators on
regional universities and communities commonly invoke at least two
distinct narratives:<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" size="-1" color="#000000">…</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"> Regional
universities, like their communities, are marginalised and under
threat, and their best chance for survival lies in working together to
create alternative opportunities and futures.<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" size="-1" color="#000000">…</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"> Regional
universities, like their metropolitan counterparts, must increasingly
adopt free market ideologies and practices whereby regional
communities will be sidelined unless they can compete with national
and international clients in accessing services from 'their'
universities.<br>
In interrogating, contesting and reconstructing these discourses, the
authors of the articles in this issue will address three key questions
currently confronting regional universities and their communities:<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" size="-1" color="#000000">…</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"> What are the
identities and the missions of contemporary regional universities?<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" size="-1" color="#000000">…</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"> How are those
identities and missions manifested in the universities' negotiated
relationships with their communities, only some of which might also be
regional?<br>
</font><font face="Symbol" size="-1" color="#000000">…</font><font
face="Times New Roman" size="-1" color="#000000"> What are the
implications of those relationships for the likely future
sustainability and survival of both regional universities and
communities?<br>
In seeking to address these questions, the issue is also directed at
re-examining the concept of 'transformations' in regional
communities in the early 21st century. Transformations, understood as
permanent and substantial changes and improvements, are crucial for
the ongoing development of individuals and groups. Yet often these
transformations occur in spite of, not because of, the planned
interventions of institutions. So it is vital, now more than ever
before, to understand the drivers, influences and potential outcomes
of and on genuinely meaningful and productive transformations in
regional communities. Within that quest for understanding, a process
of evaluating the roles and responsibilities of regional universities
and communities with regard to themselves and to one another is a
worthwhile endeavour.<br>
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Prospective authors are hereby invited to contact the issue editors to
discuss their ideas for possible contributions. It is hoped that the
issue will represent a range of regional institutions, including from
countries other than Australia. Professor Moya L. Andrews,<br>
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculties at the
Bloomington Campus of Indiana University in the United States of
America has agreed to take on the role of respondent to the issue.<br>
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Editors<br>
Jenny Simpson, Geoff Danaher<br>
and Patrick Alan Danaher<br>
Central Queensland University<br>
Australia<br>
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Correspondence Address<br>
Ms Jenny Simpson<br>
</font><font face="Times" size="-1" color="#000000">Division of
Teaching and Learning Services<br>
Rockhampton Campus<br>
Central Queensland University<br>
North Rockhampton QLD 4701<br>
Australia<br>
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</u>Telephone:<x-tab> </x-tab>(07) 4930 9057<br>
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</x-tab>(07) 4930 6306</font><br>
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<div>or contact general editor, Warwick Mules (reply to this
email)</div>
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Senior Lecturer<br>
Cultural Studies<br>
Editor Transformations</div>
<div>http://www.cqu.edu.au/transformations<br>
School of Humanities<br>
Faculty of Arts, Health and Sciences<br>
Central Queensland University<br>
Bundaberg campus,<br>
Locked Bag 3333 DC<br>
Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia 4670<br>
email: w.mules@cqu.edu.au<br>
Phone: 0741 507142</div>
<div>Mobile: 04122 92541<br>
Fax: 0741 507080<br>
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