ROLES OF THE UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES IN THE MODERN SOCIETY Name: Course: Professor Name: (February 24, 2012) Roles of the universities and colleges in the modern society Introduction The tradition roles of the universities are research and teaching. The universities offer some professional training for high jobs level. They also provide educations that are useful for the improvement of the personality. On the side of the research, university adds the body of knowledge on theoretical, as well as practical application situation. Traditionally, university limited themselves to a close circle of the students, and professors, who were from the upper society and stayed in a relative isolation situation (Owusu-Ansaha, 2001). At the same time, they also produced the elite of the society as well as of the entire country. On the other occasion, research was regarded as the privilege of the determined professors of the University, to wide extend, by their contacts, and personal interest. They also played wide role in the past years, in the basis for the progress of mankind. There was also more concern with the Universities, which later, lost their contact with the some societies until that time when they were completely exceptional as well as they failed to understand matters pertaining their surroundings. That resulted in the reduction of the performances in the Universities, as the ultimate yardstick established for measuring the success of the University was the i...