This paper studies the applicability of theoretical models of university governance from the international research literature to the Polish system. In particular, it is to test the applicability of a collegial model in the Polish case. The research question was ‘to what extent is a collegial model reflected in actual governance patterns found in the Polish university sector’. This is based on large-scale internationally comparable quantitative material. The empirical evidence for it comes from 3700 returned surveys inPoland (and more than 17,000 in eleven European countries) produced for two international research projects focused on the academic profession (CAP: “Changing Academic Profession” and EUROAC: “TheAcademic Profession in Europe”). This paper concludes that Polish universities are operating according to the traditional collegial model of the university as a “community of scholars” to an extent that isunparalleled in Western Europe. A detailed study of selected variables and specifically constructed indexes indicates that the defining feature of Polish academia today is the power of academic collegial bodies. The influence of collegial bodies on academic decision-making in Poland is the highest in Europe; and, in contrast, the power of the government and external stakeholders is the lowest. However, academics, sharing the “republic of scholars” institutional vision of the university, and still highlyinfluential in university decision-making, are currently confronted with higher education reforms grounded in an instrumental vision of the university (in which it is a tool for national political agendas). Consequently, powerful value-driven clashes between the academic community and the community ofpolicymakers and reformers are to be expected to intensify. The major theoretical concepts used in this paper come from Johan P. Olsen’s, Ian McNay’s and Robert Birnbaum’s studies of university governance,and its findings are presented from a European comparative and quantitative perspective.
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机译:本文研究了从国际研究文献到波兰制度的大学治理理论模型的适用性。尤其是要测试合议模式在波兰案中的适用性。研究的问题是“大学模式在多大程度上反映了波兰大学界的实际管理模式”。这是基于大规模的国际可比定量材料。经验证据来自在波兰进行的3700份返回调查(在11个欧洲国家中有17,000份以上),这些调查是针对两个专注于学术专业的国际研究项目(CAP:“改变学术专业”和EUROAC:“欧洲学术专业”)进行的。本文的结论是,波兰大学作为“学者共同体”正在按照大学传统的大学模式运作,这在西欧是无与伦比的。对选定变量和专门构建的指标的详细研究表明,当今波兰学术界的主要特征是学术机构的力量。在波兰,大学机构对学术决策的影响最大。相反,政府和外部利益相关者的权力最低。但是,与大学有着共同的“学者共和国”制度构想但仍然在大学决策方面具有很大影响力的学者们目前正面临着以大学的工具构想为基础的高等教育改革(在这种改革中,这是国家政策的工具)。政治议程)。因此,预计将加剧学术界与决策者和改革者之间价值驱动的冲突。本文使用的主要理论概念来自Johan P. Olsen,Ian McNay和Robert Birnbaum对大学治理的研究,其发现是从欧洲的比较和定量角度提出的。
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