O budowaniu uniwersytetu dla dobra wspólnego
On Building a University for the Common Good

Summary/Abstract: Around the world, universities have been converted into agents of globalization,competing for business in the markets of the knowledge economy. To an ever-increasingextent, they are managed like corporations. The result has been a massive betrayal of theunderlying principles of higher education. In both teaching and research, universitieshave reneged on their founding commitment to the pursuit of truth, and to the serviceof the common good. With their combination of overpaid managers, staff in precariousemployment and indebted students, they are manifestly unsustainable. Rather thanwaiting for them to collapse, however, we need to start now to build the universities ofthe future, and to restore their civic purpose as necessary components of the constitutionof a democratic society. This article first sets out the four principles—of freedom, trust,education and community – on which any university must be built, if it is to meet thechallenges of our time. It will then go on to consider the meaning of the common good,and how universities of the future can be of service to it.

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