Universities confronted with the international crisis
Abstract
During its history, the university confronted crises that disputed its role as a mechanism of transmission of knowledge and configuration of ethical values. Up to the 19th century, it remained untouched by the sovereign poles of power, the church, the emperor, the local sovereigns, but also the national state, demanding and gaining the guarantee of free access to knowledge and the conduct of independent scientific research. From the beginning of the 20th century, the connection of education with the economic system opened a Pandora's Box. Previously intact from the economic crises, the university felt the vibrations of economic recessions. Mass study resulted from a frantic specialization; at the same time, governmental subsidies placed new terms in the management and the autonomy of academic institutions. The economic crises of the past hundred years threatened the existence of the old institution. Today, the modern challenges exceed the narrow limits of the economic system and touch upon each aspect of the globalised society: environmental pollution, immigration, lower standards of quality of life, shrinkage of intellectual values. What will be the form of the university in the future? Will it lose under the state of economic restrictions? Will it evolve into a sub-system of the market or will it propose new models of harmonious social life?
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Παπαστάμου Α. (2016). Universities confronted with the international crisis. Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory, 23, 155–175. https://doi.org/10.12681/sas.10327
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