在服务地方中谋求发展:马里兰大学的办学启示

Seeking Development in the Course of Serving Local Area: the School-Running Implication of Maryland University

马里兰大学作为一所从培养当地农业技术人才的专门学院发展起来的顶级研究型公立大学,始终秉持为地方服务的办学宗旨,办学定位紧贴地方发展、开展多种形式的社会服务、主动承担企业科研课题、积极实践服务性学习,形成了立足地方,在国内外具有较高影响力的研究型大学的办学特色。马里兰大学在服务地方中谋求发展的办学实践和经验,对我国地方高校尤其是中心城市大学的办学指导思想和办学模式有积极的借鉴意义。

As a top research-typed public university developed from a college cultivating local agricultural personnel,the University of Maryland has been consistently insisting on its serving-local mission.The positioning of the university closely orients to local development.It also carries on various social services,takes on research projects for local enterprises,and actively practices service learning.The university has formed its school-running characteristic： local-focused,an influential research type university famous both home and abroad.The school-running practice and experience of Maryland University＇s development by serving local areas have an active refer-ential significance to guideline thoughts and school-running mode of China＇s local colleges and universities,espe-cially of universities in central cities.