Parricidal Implications of Off-Campus Engineering Education

Existing pressures resulting from the need for stronger university-industry cooperation have created, among other aspects, a concerted demand from industry for more offcampus participation by the universities. After reviewing briefly the major historical changes which have established the tradition and purposes of university patterns of education, this paper warns of the philosophic and altruistic threat which the trend to off-campus education portends. If pursued too enthusiastically, it could well prove to destroy the particular uniqueness upon which a university depends for its existence; this is tantamount to parricide.