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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
On December 20, the Polytechnic University hosted a strategic session entitled “Big Challenges of Large Universities: How to Manage a Large-Scale Educational Organization in the Context of Rapid Changes.” Representatives of the country’s leading universities discussed proposals to the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation for more effective involvement of large universities to achieve the national goals of the Russian Federation.
The participants of the strategic session were greeted by the rector of SPbPU Andrey Rudskoy.
It is very pleasant that, despite the pre-New Year bustle, many universities responded to our proposal to discuss pressing issues of managing large educational organizations. One of our main tasks is to strengthen the contribution to the development of the country, to the creation of a new Russian independent economy. It is very important for the heads of large mega-universities to share their experience and developments, – Andrey Rudskoy emphasized.
The Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation was represented by Deputy Director of the Department for Coordination of Activities of Educational Organizations, Konstantin Bogonosov.
The topic of the round table is important for the ministry and the country as a whole, because in modern conditions large universities face a huge number of challenges. In the context of globalization and integration, the presence of large, strong universities that are capable of providing high quality education and science is becoming critical. Such universities should play a significant role in the development and transformation of not only education, but also science and production. Holding such events will allow sharing best practices, identifying common vectors and strengthening the integration of universities among themselves, – noted Konstantin Bogonosov.
The plenary session was moderated by Irina Karelina, Vice President of the HSE University and Executive Director of the Global Universities Association. She outlined the main issues for discussion: “The Main Challenge of Managing a Large University: Balance between Centralization and Decentralization”, “The Challenge of Diversity in the Context of Digital Transformation of a Large University”, “Financial and HR Management for Large Organizations: What Strategies Contribute to the Development of the University as a Whole”. The heads of the country’s leading universities shared their opinions: SPbPU, KFU, HSE, Bauman Moscow State Technical University, RTU MIREA, Sechenov University, SPbGUPTD, UrFU and PNRPU.
Irina Karelina gave a report on “The ‘Big’ University in the National Agenda.” First Vice-Rector for Economics and Strategic Development of UrFU Daniil Sandler gave a report on “How Large Universities Can Survive in Priority. Three Nuances.”
The experience of the Polytechnic University was shared by the acting vice-rector for promising projects of SPbPU, the head of the program “Priority-2030” at the Polytechnic University Maria Vrublevskaya. She told about the challenges that large universities in Russia face, what contribution they make to the development of an integrated system of science and higher education, and how they work with focus and management system.
A large university is a great responsibility to the country, the industry, to everyone it inevitably influences due to its scale. Large universities perform a very serious social mission. Today, we have consolidatedly confirmed that we, large universities, must be given the opportunity to strengthen our contribution to development through additional resources, communication channels, access to personnel, through autonomy and freedom to choose our priorities. I am grateful to everyone who found the time and opportunity to participate in the discussion, and I look forward to seeing all the guests at the Polytechnic again, – shared Maria Vrublevskaya.
The experts continued their work in parallel groups. The conversation was moderated by PNRPU Vice-Rector for Priority Projects Pavel Volegov and Director of the SPbGUPTD Project Office Maxim Ermachkov. The participants discussed the main problems in managing large universities and the specifics of implementing their development programs, and also formulated proposals to improve the quality of university management systems.
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