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Autonomy vs. Protection: Challenges of a National Good University in the Market-oriented Era

This workshop explores the dilemma faced by universities in balancing autonomy and protection as a national good in a market-oriented environment. It delves into the historical and contemporary challenges faced by universities and the role of capital in shaping their future.

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Autonomy vs. Protection: Challenges of a National Good University in the Market-oriented Era

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  1. Workshop C:University as a “national good” (NG)and/or a Market-oriented university (MO) Aleksa Bjeliš, University of Zagreb Dubrovnik, 1 July 2005.

  2. NG and/or MO ? University creates and/or produces?

  3. Autonomy Dreams of our founders University keeps (protects) • fundamental national values and/or • universal fundamental values (and fulfils these duties autonomously) Nation protects its universities as a “national good” (i. e. something invaluable) But then: can we be autonomous and protected simultaneously? And (finally), we have to live …

  4. Protection Fear of autonomy(still without “fear of flying”): Whenever: - it’s tough, - and cold & dark (no money for heating & electricity), - and we are in our disputes (not knowing who is right), - and we feel not wise enough, - and we are climbing a steep rock from one plateau to another, being just in between,… Who would not like to have: • some confortable, warm, friendly oriented authority, with a helpful solution (and, if possible, some money in addition …) Simply: some enlightened emperor: Karl the Great, Friedrich Barbarossa,Peter the Great, Roi de Soleil, Napoleon, Maria Theresia, Franz Joseph, Queen Victoria,… (but: be careful with XX century, it’s still too close …; who remembers Heidegger, Oppenheimer, Sakharov, …?)

  5. XXI Century (still without Fox) presents: AND NOW, his (or her) majesty Capital (and exciting brave new future …)

  6. But still, from the beginning (od stoljeća jedanaestog), and always, how sweet it is: - to have your brain, • and your thoughts, • and your solutions, • and to be first with them And, until now, od stoljeća jedanaestog, universities always won at the end …

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