THE COMMUNITY OF NEW YORK AND ITS UNIVERSITIES: A SUGGESTION FOR MORE EFFECTIVE COOPERATION.

This article presents information related to effective co-operation in the community of New York and its universities. There has been a growing recognition in recent years of the interdependence of the university and the community. This has been reflected in the substantial attempts made by universities to establish cooperative relationships in one form or another with their communities. It is not possible for universities today to hold themselves aloof from the community context in which they are rooted. Universities in both urban and rural settings are inseparably intertwined with the community. They are encroached upon by the community in a hundred different ways, particularly in a community as highly urbanized as New York. Most students will live briefly in the university-community situation. But all of them will have to relate themselves to some future community, as adult citizens and as persons with a particular professional role and function. The substantive content and technical knowledge of many different fields such as medicine, engineering, architecture, law, public health, in addition to community organization skills must be drawn upon by the community or its organized groups in efforts to cope successfully with problems of physical design and planning, the development of new facilities and services, or the reorganization of existing ones, and many others.