LOCAL COMMUNITY’S NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS OF ACADEMIC SERVICE TO SOCIETY OF CHAIYAPHUM RAJABHAT UNIVERSITY

Abstract

               The objective of this qualitative research was to study local community’s needs and expectations of academic service to society by Chaiyaphum Rajabhat University. Key informants were the leaders and people from various villages in Chaiyaphum province. Open questionnaire was used to collect data. Typological analysis was used to analyze the data based on the principle of sustainable development. The research results could be summarized as follows:
              1. The results of studying the local community’s needs and expectations of economical academic service found that people’s needs were creating job and career for the people, raising income, transformation of waste into asset and income, developing community product, transformation of farm plant into valuable product and household accounting.
             2. The results of studying the local community’s needs and expectations of social academic service found that people’s needs were healthcare, first aid, preventing dengue fever, ability to read and write both Thai and English, using information technology, elderly caring, developing livable community and enhancing virtue to children and young people.
               3. The results of expectations of social academic service studying the local community’s needs found that the people’s needs were: managing waste, waste recycling, setting waste bank, transforming waste in to asset, conservation of forest and afforest, also flowing water including canal and waterway conservation, putting water pipe to resolve waste water from household, making dam, and the biological fertilizers from waste and leaves.