Akademicki etos i pieniądze

ABSTRACT. Stachowski Zbigniew, Akademicki etos i pieniądze [Academic Ethos and Money].
Bariery rozwoju polskich uczelni [Barriers to Development of Polish Higher Education
Institutions] edited by Z. Drozdowicz, M. Iwaszkiewicz – „Człowiek i Społeczeństwo” vol.
XXVIII, Poznań 2008, pp. 61-68. Adam Mickiewicz University Press. ISBN 978-83-2321861-6. ISSN 0239-3271.
The author of this article points out that the shape of Polish higher education in the forthcoming years,
including relations between public and private education, will be determined by an economic factor as a
basic one. Such an economic dictate provokes an academic community to a redefinition of its traditional
mission and results in resignation from fulfilling by higher education institutions their cultural function as
well as looking at them in categories of firm and profit. Higher education institutions are turning into
business corporations. The second important factor determining the status of Polish higher education
institutions is mass education which revolutionized higher education institutions but at the same time
influenced in a negative way the academic ethos. It means that, on the one hand academics more and more
often acquiesce to “mediocrity” and, tolerate it, and on the other hand, promote more and more badly
educated young people.
Zbigniew Stachowski, prof. dr hab., Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Międzywydziałowy Instytut
Filozofii, ul. T. Rejtana 16c, 35-959 Rzeszów, Polska – Poland.