TRANSFORMATIONS OF A TODAY’S UNIVERSITY: VALUES, APPROACHES, AND MODELS

Abstract

The paper deals with the topic of transformation of contemporary higher education institutions in the context of the current trends of the development of science, economy, and society as a whole. Possible models and approaches to the transformation of higher education under current conditions are analysed, including transformational university and ecological university. A feature of the current situation is shown to be the poly-vector nature of development, so that there are several relevant models at the same time, and not so much in the sense of diversification of national institutions accor-ding to different models, but as a variety of models and directions that can act as guidelines for each institution individually. It is argued that when determining the transformation directions, a modern higher education institution should be guided by humanistic guidelines for the development of both its own students and employees, and all people in general, while the “product” of its activities is primarily culture in all diversity of its manifestations – as academic culture, moral culture, ecological culture, and information culture.