How to understand the function of colleges and universities in directly serving the society?

Learn to use talents, equipment, information and other resources to directly serve the development of economy, politics, science and technology, culture and so on. It is a further embodiment of college students' bringing their talents into full play and integrating into society. As teaching and research centers, high-level universities should make full use of high-quality resources, provide all-round high-level services for the society, and further become social service centers. The realization of university social function is mainly based on teaching and scientific research activities, but its service content is increasingly enriched and expanded. Now it mainly includes: continuing education services, decision-making consulting services, social criticism and supervision, technology promotion services, technology training services, resource sharing services, the establishment of knowledge-based enterprises, and so on. Among the above services, high-level universities have played a key role in providing advice for major regional and national decisions, establishing knowledge enterprises and promoting the development of regional high-tech parks. With the complexity and integration of social services, the forms of social services also show a trend of diversification and upgrading. In addition to individual teachers going off-campus as consultants and setting up companies, more and more colleges and universities cooperate with enterprises and regions in an all-round way. A more advanced form is to establish a relatively fixed Industry-University-Research consortium to better realize the social service function of universities. The development of social function of university has narrowed the distance between school and society and communicated the relationship between school and society. While serving the society, the school has won a broader space for its own development.