scholarly journals The Analysis of Students’ Opinions about the Social Responsibility Of Ukrainian Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 527-538
Author(s):  
Kateryna Tryma
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
State University ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Civic Universities

Aim. The paper is aimed to investigate the students’ opinion about the social responsibility carried out by higher education institutions (HEIs) in Ukraine. Nowadays social responsibility has become one of the key characteristics of modern HEIs. Ukrainian universities are trying to become 'civic universities', i.e., institutions which contribute to the development of the local community. The students, as key stakeholders of the university activities, also take part in this process. Methods. To investigate the social responsibility of the Ukrainian HEIs, the case study method is used in the present paper: the case of Mariupol State University and its social functions within the city are highlighted. The online survey was applied to investigate the level of students’ awareness of the university social functions and the role played by the university in the local community. Materials published by the university and the results of the survey have been analysed to test the hypothesis that students consider Mariupol State University to be a socially responsible university which cooperates with the local community. Results. The students’ opinion on the social functions carried out by Mariupol State University is that this local university has strong ties with the local community and authorities and perform its social mission. However, the social functions of the university, according to the students, are limited by teaching and research activities. Few students consider social responsibility of the university in a wider context. Conclusion. On the example of the MSU the paper shows that modern universities in Ukraine perform social functions and try to become truly civic universities to contribute to the development of the local communities in cooperation with different stakeholders. Nevertheless, students as a key stakeholder of the university activities still consider social responsibility of the university primarily aimed at teaching and research.

scholarly journals Analysis of the views of NGO representatives’ about social responsibility of HEI: case of Mariupol State University

2021 ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Kateryna Tryma ◽  
Natalia Salnikova
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
State University ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Organizational Mission ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Innovation Model ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
High Degree

The article investigates the university social responsibility and the conditions in which the implementation of social functions carried out by higher education institutions can be possible. Models of interaction between society and universities are presented: the model of «civic university», which means the interaction of university, local community and local government, and the model of «quadruple spiral of innovation», which means a high degree of interaction between universities, business, government and society in various organizational forms. In the conditions of societal changes Ukrainian universities are gradually adapting their organizational mission to expand the list of functions, including those that meet the principles of social responsibility. To analyze the social responsibility of Ukrainian HEIs, a case method was applied, to analyze public materials of Mariupol State University. This university was chosen for research for a number of reasons: the institution is integrated into the life of the local community, city and region; the institution has successful experience of cooperation with local authorities and local NGOs; the university has educational programs in the humanities, social sciences and public administration; MSU staff and students are involved in many local community initiatives. To study the degree of interaction between the university and the local community, the representatives of local NGOs were interviewed. They, on the one hand, confirmed the hypothesis of the study that cooperation between HEIs and NGOs increases the ability of both social actors to respond to current local needs of communities, but outlined the main problems of this interaction, which are characteristic of most HEIs of the country: a high degree of bureaucracy, focusing on the provision of educational services and research, projects related to the infrastructure of the institution and its international presence. It is concluded that the policy of isolationism of Ukrainian HEIs inhibits the adaptation of the «civic university» model and the “quadruple spiral of innovation” model in Ukrainian society.

scholarly journals The role of mission and vision and the strategic objectives of the university on the social responsibility of faculty members in Saudi universities: دور الرسالة والرؤية والأهداف الإستراتيجية الجامعية على المسؤولية المجتمعية لدى أعضاء هيئة التدريس بالجامعات السعودية

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jafar Abdullah Mousa Idris
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Community Institutions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Strategic Goals ◽  
Community Responsibility ◽  
The University

The aim of this study was to identify the role of the message and the heroic and the strategic objectives of the university on the social responsibility of faculty members in Saudi universities. The view of faculty members at Taif University "                 The social responsibility of faculty members stems from the mission of the university and its vision and objectives. The more the mission, vision and strategic goals of the university are clear to the faculty members, the more the community responsibility is clear to them and thus can be achieved. The researcher relied on the analytical descriptive approach. The questionnaire was then designed and distributed to (70) faculty members at Taif University. The questionnaire was answered. The study was based on the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) in the analysis The study found that the university has a message, vision and strategic objectives written and clear to all faculty members. However, the university has a weak role in formulating them. There is also a lack of community responsibility in building partnerships with local community institutions and providing scientific advice to them. Institutions., And there are obstacles to their community responsibilities

Social Responsibility Practice Diagnosis applied to the Universidad del Valle- Northern Facility. Period 2014-2015

2018 ◽  
Vol 34 (62) ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Adriana M. Moreno Moreno ◽  
Eduar Fernando Aguirre González
Keyword(s):  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Strategic Issues ◽  
The North ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Management

Social Responsibility is a concept that has been approached from different perspectives by theoreticians and institutions. Initially, this was limited exclusively to companies, however, the creation of the Social Capital, Ethics and Development Initiative by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) sought to make educational institutions aware that, like any other organization, they are responsible for the externalities they generate in their environment and their stakeholders. This research approaches the concept of University Social Responsibility (USR) from the scheme proposed by the IDB, which proposes four axes of action for Universities’ CR: Responsible Campus, Professional and Citizen Training, Social Management of Knowledge and Social Participation. The Universidad del Valle has a strategic plan entitled “Universidad del Valle’s Strategic Development Plan” and Regionalization attached thereto. It has also developed its action plan and in the five strategic issues raised herein, its socially responsible approach is clearly identifiable. The North Cauca Facility wherein this study is being developed, even though it does not have a University Social Responsibility Management Model, has attempted to align its practices with its strategic affairs that broadly conform to the four axes proposed by the IDB. This research addresses a relevant and current issue inasmuch as it proposes to develop a diagnosis on the relationship between the four axes of Social Responsibility proposed by the IDB and the practice of Social Responsibility applied at the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility, for the period 2014-2015. In order to answer the research problem, a qualitative, exploratory and descriptive type of study is used, given that the work was based on the documentary information available at the University, while the interviews with the directors of the Institution are used as a tool for oral history. The research method used is the case study, which allows to address a unit of analysis in depth, in this case the USR within the Universidad del Valle, North Cauca Facility.

Serpent Handling: Toward a Cognitive Account – Honoring the Scholarship of Ralph W. Hood Jr.

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (5) ◽  
pp. 414-430
Author(s):  
Thomas J. Coleman ◽  
Christopher F. Silver ◽  
Jonathan Jong
Keyword(s):  
Social Functions ◽  
University Of Tennessee ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Speaking In Tongues ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The University ◽  
Serpent Handling

Abstract The ritual handling of serpents remains an unnoticed cultural form for the explanatory aims and theoretical insights desired by cognitive scientists of religion. In the current article, we introduce the Hood and Williams archives at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga that contains data culled from Hood’s 40-plus year career of studying serpent handlers. The archives contain hundreds of hours of interviews and recordings of speaking in tongues, handling fire, drinking poison, and taking up serpents by different congregants and congregations. The archive remains a rich but untapped source of data for building, testing, and refining cognitive theories of ritual in general, and serpent handling in specific. We connect Hood’s work to current cognitive theories and engage critically with research on the social functions of ritual. Finally, we discuss several further reasons to pay more attention to SHS communities and practices in cognitive theories of ritual.

scholarly journals Corporate social responsibility, social and financial performance: The case study of the loan appraisal process of the Rwanda Development Bank

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-56
Author(s):  
Gianfranco A. Vento ◽  
Helen Chiappini ◽  
Giuseppe Lia
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Stability ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
Appraisal Process ◽  
The Social ◽  
Development Banks ◽  
Corporate Social

Development banks play an active role in smoothing growth of world’s disadvantaged areas. The social mission of development banks requires that they pay attention to corporate social responsibility (CSR) and to the social outcome of financing activities. However, like any other financial institution, they must consider the business sustainability and the financial stability over time. Thus, a comprehensive loan appraisal process should include financial and social aspects. Literature does not properly investigate development banks loan appraisal process, thus the aim of this paper is to contribute to this stream of literature, analysing how development banks can include the evaluation of social and environmental variables within their loan appraisal process. For the purpose of the research, we employed a case study of the Rwanda Development Bank (BRD). The BRD loan appraisal process combines the evaluation of typical aspects of corporate social responsibility – like the firms or projects compliance to health and safety regulations or the implementation of the code of ethics including diversity policies – with the evaluation of social and environmental impact, as well with financial aspects. The BRD social impact assessment is also valuable because it follows the criteria of proportionality of loans evaluation, balancing completeness of information with the cost of the assessment.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the project making culture of the students learning the social engineering technics

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 209-223
Keyword(s):  
Social Engineering ◽  
State University ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Legal Psychology ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Development Evaluation ◽  
University Course ◽  
The University ◽  
Moscow State University

During the university course the future legal psychologists have to master a wide range of professional competencies, among them are those that can be classified as management, with an emphasis on project making competencies and their relationship with the project making professional culture. The article presents the results of students' self-evaluation competencies. This research was a part of the monitoring of learning outcomes in a number of disciplines in the Faculty of Legal Psychology, Moscow State University of Psychology and Education. The author raises the problem of defining the concepts of "project culture" and "psychological culture of project making", which still do not have a clear definition inspite of the intensive development of the socio-cultural, innovative and other forms of project making. For legal psychologists project making culture involves the acquisition of psychologically correct approaches to the development, evaluation, promotion and institutionalization of the ideas, so they can provide the solution of professional problems.

scholarly journals Las políticas supranacionales de educación superior ante la «tercera misión» de la Universidad: el caso del aprendizaje-servicio

2020 ◽  
pp. 256
Author(s):  
Juan García-Gutiérrez ◽  
Carlos Corrales Gaitero
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Third Mission ◽  
Social Commitment ◽  
Social Mission ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Citizenship ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

The constant transformation that the institutions of higher education experiment and, particularly, the university assumes a re-consideration of their shapes, methodology, and missions, as well as the relationships established with society. Therefore, we shall consider that a “social mission” of the university or their “third mission” constitutes an umbrella that shelters a wide diversity of reflex conceptions, and at the same time, the relationship university – society. Additionally, take into consideration that this civic and social commitment in higher education should incorporate an integrator approach, involved with an idea of European or Latin-American citizenship, in any case, incorporated in the development of their supranational policies. Therefore, the objective of our work is double. On one side, to meet and analyze the notion of a “social mission” or “third mission” of the university and their conceptual network, to clarify the language and in which sense the different denominations are used, according to the different economical, sustainability or civic approaches to be adopted. Secondly, the treatment of these ideas will be addressed at the supranational policies of higher education both in Europe and Ibero America, according to what had been structured at the Higher Education European State and whether it has been promoted by the OEI. Also, it will be attended the way that this supranational policy aboard the civic and identity components, that linked to the social mission cooperate for the promotion of common citizenship. As a result of the analysis made we can affirm that the approach of the learning-service constitutes an emergent tendency on a global scale, appropriate to develop effectively the third mission or social mission of the university.

scholarly journals Integration of library services in the context of building university information environment. (Case study of Prioksky State University)

2016 ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Olga Borisova ◽  
Natalya Styopina
Keyword(s):  
Academic Library ◽  
Social Institution ◽  
State University ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The University

The service-oriented approach of the university academic library is highlighted: The social institution of services is to increase quality of living, to be a tool of socializing and adaptation. The authors conclude that in the context of the education new paradigm the services make the focus of Prioksky State University Library to foster efficient library operation and coordination within the university divisions.

INTEGRATION OF EDUCATION AND PRODUCTION AS A NECESSARY CONDITION FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION'S INDUSTRY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 116-121
Author(s):  
E. E. SHVAKOV ◽  
◽  
N. M. OSKORBIN ◽  
O. P. OSADCHAYA ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Real Sector ◽  
State University ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Industrial Organizations ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
The University

The article substantiates the need for integration interaction between educational institutions and enterprises of the real sector of the economy, defines its modern directions. The article analyzes one of the practices of interaction between universities and industrial enterprises of the Altai territory. The article describes the activities of the Altai state University in cooperation with industrial enterprises of the region. A study of the interaction of the University and industrial organizations of the Altai territory in the field of personnel training, as well as in the field of research and development works is being conducted. The article describes the main results of the work of the Altai state University, carried out in the interests of the development of industrial production in the Altai territory. The article describes the results of the University's activities in terms of: modernization of its educational system, creation of innovative enterprises, research activities to develop new technological solutions for the development of industrial production in the region.

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