Społeczna odpowiedzialność uniwersytetu ekonomicznego
Social Responsibility of an Economic University

Summary/Abstract: The paper tries to answer the question about the social responsibility of an economic university, in the context of the reform introduced in the Polish system of higher education in 2005, which allowed to transform the former economic academies into economic universities. The author believes that such a change in the name of the economic school should imply a significant change in the manner of thinking and acting of the academic community. Its thinking and behaviour should be consistent with the strive after truth and with the principle of universality, both horizontal – in the sense of being open to other fields and kinds of knowledge, and vertical – the desire to deepen the knowledge. This attitude should be reflected in an increased openness to the truth about the man, with the resulting concentration of education and research activities, on the three dimensions of human behaviour: ‘to be’, ‘to have’, and ‘not to have’. The author puts forward some proposals how to adjust the communities involved to new tasks resulting from the change in the academic status of their schools, the implementation of which could also help to restore the authority of the economic university. The proposed actions should be based on the foundation of love and a true concern for man, not on the profit motive. The choice of a paper value system will determine the kind of the cultural heritage transferred by the university onto future generations.

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