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Attitudes of Belgrade University Employees on Corruption

Stavovi zaposlenih na Beogradskom univerzitetu o korupciji

Author(s): Stjepan Gredelj / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 34/2007

Keywords: university; corruption; bribe; nepotism; clientism; cronysm;

Corruption is widely overspread phenomenon in all transition countries. In this sense Serbia is not exception, on the contrary, it was always highly ranked in all corruption indeces of Transparency International. Among social areas which are considered as saturated with corruption highly ranked is the field of university education. In order to check justification of such perceptions, we have conducted a survey among Belgrade University employees. The findings confirmed that there exist corruption in high education on one side and that there is not too much readiness of employees to oppose it, if not to tear it out, than at least to diminish it.

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IDEA OF UNIVERSITY AND THE PLACE OF UNIVERSITY

IDEA OF UNIVERSITY AND THE PLACE OF UNIVERSITY

Author(s): Józef L. Krakowiak / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2012

Keywords: universitas; koinonia; Bildung; vestals of reason; philosophy of facts; or disobedience in thinking?; social thinking; economy of knowledge.

Any debate about the aim of university is a question of its place within the cultural and social whole of a given time, tradition and dominant ideology. In the first place this will feature concern about its autonomy from the state, Church, parties, capital, etc. The debate will go on to include the relationship between science and the education of citizens, science and industry and science versus capital. The dispute has included the participation of philosophy and theology or social sciences in preparing university candidates, which is still an issue ignored in Poland, and in broadening their horizons. The bone of contention between the positivist philosophy of facts and the humanistic deliberations on values is the understanding of culture and responsibility, that is, a dispute about a model of a graduate and a citizen: a narrow specialist, or a rational, integral man. Is the mastery of specialist knowledge more important than the skill of universal way of thinking and responsible collective action? Therefore, we are posing a question regarding a model of university as a community of people: what form of relations between the teacher and a student should be preferred in order to teach how to live reasonably in the contemporary and future societies? What do faculties strive to achieve? Is the target to be met competitiveness, as measured by a “calculable” profit, decorated with the stars of knowledge or, rather, is it disobedience in thinking by its typical graduates?

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University of unconditional

Université de inconditionnel

Author(s): Jacques Derrida / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 07/2013

Keywords: university; globalization; offshoring; unconditional freedom

Excerpt Derrida Université sans condition, Galilee, Paris 2001, which will be released in Polish translation Gaetano Maria Jaksendera in 2013.

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PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNIVERSITY

PSYCHOANALYSIS IN THE UNIVERSITY

Author(s): Gabriel Balaci / Language(s): / Issue: 03/2013

Keywords: university; psychoanalysis; unconscious; personality

The importance of the study of psychoanalysis in the university, the social-humanistic faculties, is emphasized by the graduates of these faculties, arrived in the labor market. As a study discipline, psychoanalysis offers a profound vision over the human personality, granting the proper importance to the unconscious and its influence over the conscious. Also it's the discipline that approaches the depths of the human being, having in its object of study the will, the dream, the libido, the psychosexual identity. Studying psychoanalysis, the social-humanistic faculty graduate, who will activate in a social, educational, or medical field, will have a much better approach in the relations with the beneficiary of he’s work, having at the base a solid system of knowledge and a profound understanding of the others personality, as well as he’s own.

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ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

ON UNIVERSITY EDUCATION

Author(s): Josef Šmajs,Božena Buchtová / Language(s): English,Russian / Issue: 6/2015

Keywords: Education; culture; nature; constitution; Earth; information; spiritual paradigm.

University education does not correspond to the need to apply biofile transformation of the current anti-natural Culture as soon as possible. Students have inadequate idea about the Earth as the Culture's wider host system, about life as a planetary phenomenon and about the function, integrity and value of the Earth. Secondary schools have failed to inform them suffi-ciently that the Earth is a creative system which had preceded the Culture and which has spontaneously reproduced not only humans but also all other natural prerequisites of the human Culture. The Earth has not been introduced to the students as an older, wider and more power-ful system than the artificial and temporarily existing Culture. Secondary school leavers do not understand the evolutionary value of the Earth, its basic right to exist and develop independently. Vague definitions of Culture is another reason for the deepening of the current environ-mental crisis. Contemporary university students are not taught about the Culture as a human-created system with its own internal information. They do not know that if we want to change a system with internal information, we must change information within it. In case of Culture this means a modification of Spiritual Culture. It happens because two aggressive characteristics of human activity assert themselves in the contemporary predatory form of Culture. The first is the biological characteristic, which is, together with humility, the foundation of the human nature and therefore we cannot change it. The second is the sociocultural characteristic, which we call the predatory spiritual paradigm. The outline of this paradigm was shaped by means of theoretical abstraction in the Ancient Greece and it has been further strengthened by the conceptual ideals of the New-Age classic science. Abandonment of the predatory spiritual paradigm and its replacement with a biofile paradigm are great intellectual tasks faced by philosophy, social sciences and also university education. Therefore we draw attention to the significance of the philosophical concept of the Constitution of the Earth, which was published in five languages, including Russian, in the Czech Republic in 2015.

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PRE-REFORMED UNIVERSITY IN CHARGE OF COLLEGES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XIX CENTURY

ДОРЕФОРМЕННЫЙ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ВО ГЛАВЕ УЧИЛИЩ В ПЕРВОЙ ПОЛОВИНЕ XIX ВЕКА

Author(s): Tatiana Nikolaevna Zhukovskaya,Elena Aleksandrovna Kalinina / Language(s): Russian / Issue: 3 (156)/2016

Keywords: university; gymnasium; schools; teacher; management of the system of public education

The purpose of the article is to explore, based on the case study of local examples, the model of organization and management inherentto provincial colleges of the early XIX century. At that time, the pre-reform university acted as a pivot of the model in focus.Employment of the new factual material helped to reconstruct the University’s everyday administrative practices, and, in general,to appreciate effectiveness of the reforms introduced in the early XIX century. The mentioned reforms defined the model of theRussian higher and secondary schools’ development for the next 100 years. The authors’ conclusions are based on the results of thecomprehensive analysis of the little-known materials found in provincial archives (directorates’ funds of the schools in Olonets,Arkhangelsk, Vologda, and other provinces), as well as in the funds of St. Petersburg University, Main Pedagogical Institute, theOffice of the trustee of St. Petersburg school district, and the Department of Public Education. In addition, we studied available publishedlaws and regulations, which specified the status of schools and order of their management, clerical materials, and memoirs.We tried to reconstruct the model of college management in provinces, which developed in 1800–1830-ies. The core of the modelwas the university. We also gave special consideration to the specifics of the influence exerted by the St. Petersburg University andits immediate predecessor – Pedagogical Institute of St. Petersburg.

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University: logos and logo

Uniwersytet: logos i logo

Author(s): Tadeusz Sławek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2015

Keywords: university;management

Following the call of Kazimierz Twardowski, who in 1936 spoke of “the dignity of the university”, this essay is an attempt to examine the extent to which this idea is still valid. By distinguishing between “governance” (critical analysis of the situation and advocating adequate means not only for describing, but also for changing the world) and “management” (serving primarily not to renew or change the world, but to achieve quantifiable results in the application of well-known and thoroughly elaborated administrative and financial measures), we show that one of the main problems in the academy today is the lack of a proper critical distance to the accepted ways of organizing the world, recognized, too hastily, as uncontested. This is why universities have had imposed on them a discourse of economics as the only means of conducting and describing their activities. Without neglecting in any way economic factors, it is necessary to refuse to follow the techno-bureaucratic policies being applied in universities as a means of “forcing” results in research. The task and role of the university are rooted in a deep conviction that the problems of today's world cannot be solved solely through the belief they are purely economic in nature. The University has always demanded we recognize the moral causes of the difficulties that place a strain on our common existence. What is forgotten by the techno-bureaucracy currently “managing” science and education, is, as Leszek Kołakowski summed up perfectly, fact that: “(...) for at least some of the great problems facing mankind there are no purely technical or organizational solutions”, because they require, above all, a “spiritual transformation”.

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Global university rankings at the global market of educational services

Світові рейтинги університетів на глобальному ринку освітніх послуг

Author(s): Vitalina Malyshko,Liudmyla Yaremenko / Language(s): Ukrainian / Issue: 31/2016

Keywords: university; financial services market; competitiveness; international university rankings; world rankings;

Subject of research are the global University rankings. The purpose of research is the analysis of world University rankings at the global market of educational services. Methodology of research: generalization, comparative analysis, statistical and other research methods. The results of research. The article describes the main world rankings of universities in the global educational market, the most popular among them are: Academic ranking of universities (Academic Ranking of World Universities, ARWU, China), the Times Higher Education Rankings of Universities (Times magazine, United Kingdom), Webometrics (Webometrics, Spain), Unversity 21. The features of each rating. The main criteria for the formation of the world University rankings. Investigated one of the most important criteria for international rankings of universities the development of higher education and University research – capitalization. Listed on the General trends of the development of competitive universities, the best higher Ukrainian universities entered the ranking institutions in the world and in the top five universities, according to rankings based on the indicators of database Scopus UNIVERSITIES. Measures to improve the rating of Ukrainian UNIVERSITIES. Areas of results implemenation: Ministry of education and science of Ukraine, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. Conclusions. World-class universities in contrast to the Ukrainian UNIVERSITIES reach leadership positions through training competitive graduates in the labor market, high level of scientific research, financial support from the state (which contributes to the modernisation of higher education and the development of competitive educational institutions in the global market), the spread of new ideas and technologies. By following the positions of any institution of higher education can take a leadership position in the global market of educational services.

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University at the Intersection of the World and Home. Towards the Admiration of Independent Thinking

Uniwersytet w przecięciu świata i domu. W stronę afirmacji myślenia osobnego

Author(s): Aleksnadra Kunce / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 2/2016

Keywords: university; independent thinking; home; locality; difference;

This essay discusses the important question concerning the understanding of university. The author uses anthropological and philosophical approaches to develop the interpretation of the local-worldly university. Why shall we think about university at the intersection of the world and home? The main aim of the article is to describe and interpret problems of autonomy, location, and connection with regions. The author refers to Plato, Aristotle, Herder, Humboldt, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Ortega y Gasset, Heidegger, Merton, Lyotard, Derrida, and Esposito. The explanation of the idea of wonder leads to the consideration of an important role of university as an independent and autonomous place in our common space. Thinking about university as an independent entity is an act of retreating from the conception of university as a centre of innovation, yielding unified and standardized thought, yet deprived of roots. University is not a realm of “the same.” If we take care of “the difference,” in particular, if we think about the Derridean term “différance”, we should affirm “the difference” in the daily practice of our universities. University is obliged to strengthen independent thinking and engaged practice, to encourage dealing with inconvenient themes and producing unprecedented narratives. We thus need to affirm our right to independence. Local orientation of university brings about the common creation of the space, which involves not only pride in one’s identity, but also a sense of the infinite, the impossible, the incomprehensible, and the strange. The local-worldly university leads us to recognition university at the intersection of the world and home.

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THE PROJECT OF A ROMANIAN UNIVERSITY AT SIBIU IN 1864

LE PROJET D’UNE UNIVERSITÉ ROUMAINE À SIBIU EN 1864

Author(s): Dumitru Ivănescu / Language(s): French / Issue: Supl. 3/2014

Keywords: Transylvania; Habsburgs; revolution; dualist monarchy;university;

The establishment of a Romanian university in Habsburg Transylvania was demanded on the 3rd / 15th of May 1848 on the Liberty Plain at Blaj. The 13th Point of the National Petition addressed to the emperor expressed this demand, further resumed on the 1st of September 1849, when a delegation of the Romanian nation representatives requested the Ministry of Cults and Instruction from Vienna to open a juridical faculty for the Romanians, alongside the existing philosophy and theology faculties. The demands of the Romanians had multiple causes. Although Hungarian superior schools already existed and a Law Academy in German had been established at Sibiu since 1844, for the Romanians, the province's majority population, with all the promises from the Habsburg authorities, the establishment of a higher education institution was slow in coming. The repeated failures of the Romanians in the matter of their own university in Transylvania convinced some of their leaders that a solution may be found beyond the Carpathians. Bărnuţiu, Laurian, Aron, Maiorescu and others had reached in the Romanian Principalities. Bărnuţiu was elected rector of the University in Iaşi, Laurian was dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, a post he held for 18 years without interruption, and both Aron and Maiorescu became history professors at the same faculty. The Austrian authorities have not complied with the promises made after the revolution, in the years 1849-1852. Subsequently, until the establishment of the dualist regime in 1867, specialized studies do not record other Romanian initiatives for the organization of higher education in Transylvania. However, the Romanians have not dropped the idea. Their hopes found understanding and material support at the Romanians across the Carpathians. Nonetheless, even if the first Romanian university could not be established under the Habsburg Monarchy, the year 1864 represents an important moment of Romanian solidarity, determined both by the liberal regime of the empire and the reforming regime under the patronage of Al. I. Cuza in Romania.

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The Reception of the Novel "Submission" by Michel Houellebecq: the Invisibility of the Defeated University

Рецепција романа "Покоравање" Мишела Уелбека: невидљивост побеђеног универзитета

Author(s): Željko Milanović / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 161/2017

Keywords: reception;university;humanities;identity;post-democracy;

The reception of the novel Submission by Michel Houellebecq began even before its publication and was further stimulated by the terror attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine. Following this macabre event, it naturally pervaded from European into Serbian mass media. The media’s perception of the novel was then seamlessly perpetuated in the critical reviews. The majority of these reviews of Houellebecq’s novel focus on the bond between politics and religion, seeing that this interaction is – due to its controversy – an inexhaustible source of interest for mass media. Yet, in his visions of the near future, Houellebecq foretells a further entrenchment of the existing system rather than its radical negation or transformation,as pointed out throughout the novel, by the author himself.

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Students' attitudes and beliefs concerning university classes of philological subjects

Ставови и уверења студената о високошколској настави филолошких предмета

Author(s): Isidora Wattles,Biljana B. Radić-Bojanić / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 4/2018

Keywords: university; philological subjects; students; attitudes; beliefs

Nowadays university, especially some faculties and departments, fight for survival in the market in many different ways, one of them being the increase in the number of students, which consequently affects the choice of teaching methods and class organization thus leading to heterogeneity in the classroom. The most important consequence of this diversity is the fact that each group of students comprises different individuals who differ in motivation, intellectual abilities and previous knowledge. These factors represent classroom problems that teachers have to tackle in order to achieve better learning outcomes for each student. This paper, therefore, relies on a qualitative research design conducted via an open-ended questionnaire, to investigate the students' stance towards philological subjects, i.e. their attitudes and beliefs concerning teaching quality, student participation in the teaching process and their relationship towards studying. General conclusions indicate engaged thinking about classes and a need for clear and interactive classes, which is in accordance with the nature of philological studies and subjects, as well as modern views and recommendations about teaching.

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FEATURES OF THE COMMUNICATION STYLE OF THE BULGARIAN UNIVERSITY IN FACEBOOK

ХАРАКТЕРИСТИКА НА СТИЛА НА КОМУНИКАЦИЯ НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ УНИВЕРСИТЕТ ВЪВ FACEBOOK

Author(s): Milen Filipov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: university; social network sites; Facebook; dialogue; communication

The pilot study explored the social media communication of three Bulgarian universities. The purpose of the study was to find out the characteristics of the communication behaviour and style the Bulgarian universities perform on their Facebook walls. The whole research population of total 205 Facebook posts for the year 2018 was analysed. The three universities communicate with news and a monologue. The style of communication is a public information one. The research is part of the research project of Burgas Free university „Bulgarian Language in Social Media” (№ДН20/ 6; 11.12.2017) funded by the National Science Fund of Bulgaria (BNSF)

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The University-Idea in the Process of Creating Academic Values

Uniwersytet - Idea w procesie wytwarzania wartości akademickich

Author(s): Jerzy Hausner / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2019

Keywords: university; idea; intellect; reason; axionormative order; social space- time continuum;

In his idea of university, Karl Jaspers makes an attempt to link and commonise two worlds: the spiritual and the physical. This seems to me to be of fundamental importance. Even though I wish to uphold his approach, my thoughts proceed in a different direction. I want to combine the university’s transcendent and pragmatic references, but for me, the factor that holds them together is the process of creating existential and instrumental values. The idea of university is expressed – in my approach – in university-specific links between the generation of both kinds of values, which is reflected by the concept of university-idea. A university understood and operating in this way is concurrently an institution and an organisation, a combination of the axionormative and operational orders. Its development depends on whether its social space-time continuum offers good conditions for personal and collective development to all of its participants.

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The University and the Technosphere. The End of the Humanities and the Possibilities of Reversal?

Sveučilište i tehnosfera: Kraj humanistike i mogućnosti obrata?

Author(s): Žarko Paić / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2020

Keywords: university; humanities; technosphere; cybernetic difference; turn; artificial life;

The article discusses the relationship between universities as the idea of realizing scientific and technical possibilities of “progress” and “development” of man at the end of metaphysics and that which arises from understanding the technosphere as the rule of “artificial intelligence” and “artificial life” through the analysis of four basic concepts of cybernetics: information-feedback-controls-communications. By critically analyzing relevant approaches to this problem within the poststructuralist circle of thought from Jean-Francois Lyotard to Jacques Derrida, the author shows that preserving the “essence” of what we call the humanities as a thought-saying “on” the existential openness of man can only be done by its reduction to biogenetic processes. When life, in its last possibility of spiritualization, becomes an autopoietic system that loses the features of uniqueness and uncertainty in the technologization of Being and instead becomes singularity and calculability, the knowledge of the “cybernetic difference between man and the world” requires a radical transformation. But not the transformation of science and its historical and epochal place of world history as is the idea of the university from Humboldt to the so-called Bologna reforms. The last transformation with which the Western metaphysics as an onto-theo-cosmo-anthropology loses its own “essence” concerns the realization of the possibility of what Friedrich Nietzsche intended for the idea of man - to be a bridge between an “animal” and “superman.” The article intends to reconsider the consequences of the new paradigm of technological structure of “artificial life” for the future of the idea of the university and possibly new “missions” of the humanities in that context.

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What Kind of University Do We Want?

Jakiego chcemy uniwersytetu?

Author(s): Jerzy Marian Brzeziński / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 1/2020

Keywords: university; mission of the university; entrepreneurial universities; academic culture vs. corporate culture; autonomy; freedom; democracy; tradition; formation mission;

Brzeziński examines the threats for the classic concept of university rooted in the reform of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin introduced by Wilhelm von Humboldt (1812). The canon of values linked to “academic culture” is being supplanted by a set of values (or, rather, anti-values) characteristic of “corporate culture” (with the underlying approach expressed in B. R. Clark’s book: Entrepreneurial universities). Universities should carry out three missions: aiming for the truth (scientific research), delivering knowledge (teaching), and undertaking formation work (education). What is essential for the university is not just to focus on scientific achievements and knowledge transfer but also to shape new elites for a democratic, free, open, and creative civic society.

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How do senior citizens cope with energy poverty? Evidence from a local case study in the Polish Silesia region

How do senior citizens cope with energy poverty? Evidence from a local case study in the Polish Silesia region

Author(s): Dorota Nowalska-Kapuścik / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2021

Keywords: energy poverty; fuel poverty; elderly people; local social policy

The subject of this article is energy poverty understood as having difficulties with satisfying the basic energy needs in the household. The main goal of the article is to find the patterns and strategies used by the Polish senior citizens dealing with the effects of fuel poverty and to recognize how this type of poverty affects the life of individuals, their families and local environment. This is done using original data from a case study conducted by the author in Lipiny, Świętochłowice municipality, which is an example of post-industrial area of Silesian province in Poland. The study comprised 30 individual interviews with elderly members of households affected by the problem of fuel poverty. The results show complex relations between fuel poverty and (non)fulfilment of various needs by the elderly. The findings suggest the necessity of local authorities’ systematic action focused on prevention of fuel poverty in local communities.

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Grasping the idea of university – on crossing the language boundaries in Paul Ricœur’s idiolect on the example of an analysis of Faire l’Université, Réforme et révolution dans l’Université and L’avenir de l’Université

Grasping the idea of university – on crossing the language boundaries in Paul Ricœur’s idiolect on the example of an analysis of Faire l’Université, Réforme et révolution dans l’Université and L’avenir de l’Université

Author(s): Patrycja Bobowska-Nastarzewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2022

Keywords: university; Paul Ricœur; conceptual metaphor; language boundaries;

The aim of the paper is to analyse Paul Ricœur’s idiolect in texts concerned with the (still valid) reform of the university: Faire l’Université (1964), Réforme et révolution dans l’Université (1968) and L’avenir de l’Université (1971). The research method used here comes from cognitive linguistics, in particular from the theory of metaphor by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson. Paul Ricœur, outlining the extent of the necessary changes to be implemented within the institution of university, employs a whole range of conceptual metaphors, including, among others, those from the language of the military (e.g. REFORM OF UNIVERSITY IS A WAR), industry (e.g. UNIVERSITY IS AN ENTERPRISE), medicine (e.g. UNIVERSITY IS A LABORATORY). Crossing language boundaries, Ricœur offers an original conceptualization of the notion of university, thus emphasizing difficulties encountered when describing the complex structure of the institution, its function within the state, and the professor–student relationship.

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University and Post-truth

University and Post-truth

Author(s): Olha Honcharenko / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: university; post-truth; objective truth; university autonomy; academic freedom; philosophy; critical thinking;

The article demonstrates the conflict between university and post-truth, namely the inability of university to fight post-truth due to the underestimation of objective truth in society. The facts that university is losing the opportunity to develop students’ critical thinking as a result of the deprivation of its independence in obtaining objective truth are given as arguments. The attention is focused on the historical context of this conflict. In conclusion, the need for university to defend its independence due to the terrible consequences of post-truth for society is proved.

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University

Uniwersytet

Author(s): Izabela Cytlak,Kazimierz Przyszczypkowski,Jerzy Marian Brzeziński,Michał Musielak,Maciej Michalski,Andrzej J. Szwarc,Bogumiła Kaniewska,Seweryna Wysłouch,Jerzy Fiećko,Barbara Sienkiewicz,Kazimierz Przyszczypkowski,Beata Anna Polak,Tomasz Polak,Mariusz Jaskólski,Anna Goździcka-Józefiak,Roman Murawski,Witold Wnuk,Jerzy Pogonowski,Janusz Skoczylas,Lidia Cierpiałkowska,Stanisław Kowalik,Wiesław Ambrozik,Tomasz Polak,Zdzisław W. Puślecki,Agnieszka Rościszewska,Michał Klichowski / Language(s): Polish

Keywords: university; academic discourse; knowledge transfer; scientific thinking and action styles; education; interdisciplinarity

The university as a community of thinking and free people has always been of interest to researchers. A discussion of the open spaces of university discourse can provide a starting point for a debate about styles of scientific thinking and action. In the space of the university, we can certainly see scientific discourse, scientific and research discourse, but also increasingly popular science discourse or 'absent discourses'. This book is a generational transmission of knowledge, a kind of transfer between knowledge and experience and what is just entering the world of science. It is a kind of encouragement to use the scientific achievements combining the interpenetrating disciplines of academic knowledge. Texts by prominent figures from the world of science presenting various fields of science are gathered in one place. We dedicate the book to both scholars and students wishing to learn about the intersecting areas of the architecture of academic knowledge.

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