REDEFINIREA POSTMODERNĂ A ROLULUI ŞI MENIRII UNIVERSITĂŢII

Ionuţ VLADESCU Universitatea „Petre Andrei” din Iaşi, România

Аннотация

REDEFINING POSTMODERN ROLE AND MISSION OF THE UNIVERSITY Nowadays globalized and crisis threatened society has put the knowledge at the heart of the efforts for achieving sustainable and smart growth. That is why, in supporting this strategy, a crucial role was assigned to education and, in particular, to higher education. In view to achieve such crucial role, University faced demands for urgent and deep modernization. So, the University had to rethink its purposes, that is, definitions of what University is, can be and should be, criteria for quality and success, the kinds of research, education and services to be produced, and for whom (Masten, Olsen). At stake was the higher education's capacity to compete in the global knowledge society, to adapt and adjust to a series of profound changes: globalization of education and research, increased demand for higher education, increasing need to develop a close cooperation between universities and industry; reorganization of knowledge (need to adapt to the interdisciplinary character of the fields opened by society's major problems such as sustainable development). Keywords: higher education, reform, paradigm of academic, technological competitiveness, become permanent.