University autonomy; the core of academic culture

• Authors: Piotr Sztompka
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Academic culture is a set of rules (norms and values) regulating the institution of the university. The central component of academic culture is autonomy both in the sense of independence from external interference and the capacity to decide on research, teaching and organization of the university. Autonomy is endangered by the interference in academic culture of other cultural complexes characteristic for modern society: corporate culture, business culture, bureaucratic culture, financial culture, consumer culture. The resulting cultural clash is the reason for current crisis of the university. The defense of autonomy is the ethical and professional duty of scholars.

Keywords

EN

autonomy; academic culture; university; social capital

• Publisher: Biuro Upowszechniania i Promocji Nauki PAN
• Journal: Nauka
• Year: 2017
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2017

online

2017-09-05

Contributors

author

Piotr Sztompka