Universities are a kind of schools that implement higher education, including comprehensive universities, specialized universities and colleges. It is an organization with unique functions, an institution of higher learning that inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge, and is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions.
Universities generally refer to comprehensive colleges. The college includes medical college, engineering college, business college, normal college, management college, political science and law college, police college, tourism college, music college, transportation college and fine arts college. Higher vocational colleges include vocational and technical colleges, vocational colleges and junior colleges.
The mission of the university
University is essentially a special academic institution about knowledge, and its basic mission is to manage knowledge, disseminate knowledge, use knowledge and create knowledge.
Universities are managers of knowledge. Management knowledge is to collect human knowledge as widely as possible, formulate a knowledge classification system to sort out knowledge scientifically, keep knowledge properly, and provide it to learners as conveniently as possible.
Universities are disseminators of knowledge. In the past, the spread of human knowledge was mainly vertical and handed down from generation to generation. With the rapid increase of the radius of human activities and the arrival of the era of globalization, the horizontal spread of knowledge has also developed rapidly.
Universities are users of knowledge. Through the application of knowledge, universities transform science into technology and science and technology into social products, directly serving the society and directly promoting social progress.
University is the creator of knowledge. Each generation should not only enjoy the knowledge of predecessors, but also become the creators of new knowledge and add some "new weapons" to the "arsenal" of human knowledge. This is the basis for universities to attach importance to scientific research.
The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-University.