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Item Academic Generations and Academic Work: Patterns of Attitudes, Behaviors and Research Productivity of Polish Academics after 1989(2015) Kwiek, MarekThis paper focuses on a generational change taking place in the Polish academic profession: a change in behaviors and attitudes between two groups of academics. One was socialized to academia under the communist regime (1945-1989) and the other entered the profession in the post-1989 transition period. Academics of all age groups are beginning to learn how tough the competition for research funding is, but young academics (“academics under 40”), being the target of recent policy initiatives, need to learn faster. Current reforms present a clear preferred image for a new generation of Polish academics: highly motivated, embedded in international research networks, publishing mostly internationally, and heavily involved in the competition for academic recognition and research funding. In the long run, without such a radical approach, any international competition between young Polish academics (with a low research orientation and high teaching hours) and their young Western European colleagues (with a high research orientation and low teaching hours) seems inconceivable, as our data on the average academic productivity clearly demonstrate. The quantitative background of this paper comes from 3,704 returned questionnaires and the qualitative background from 60 semi-structured in-depth interviews. The paper takes a European comparative approach and contrasts Poland with 10 Western European countries (using 17,211 returned questionnaires).Item The unfading power of collegiality? University governance in Poland in a European comparative and quantitative perspective(2015) Kwiek, MarekThis paper studies the applicability of theoretical models of university governance from the international research literature to the Polish system. In particular, it is to test the applicability of a collegial model in the Polish case. The research question was ‘to what extent is a collegial model reflected in actual governance patterns found in the Polish university sector’. This is based on large-scale internationally comparable quantitative material. The empirical evidence for it comes from 3700 returned surveys in Poland (and more than 17,000 in eleven European countries) produced for two international research projects focused on the academic profession (CAP: “Changing Academic Profession” and EUROAC: “The Academic Profession in Europe”). This paper concludes that Polish universities are operating according to the traditional collegial model of the university as a “community of scholars” to an extent that is unparalleled in Western Europe. A detailed study of selected variables and specifically constructed indexes indicates that the defining feature of Polish academia today is the power of academic collegial bodies. The influence of collegial bodies on academic decision-making in Poland is the highest in Europe; and, in contrast, the power of the government and external stakeholders is the lowest. However, academics, sharing the “republic of scholars” institutional vision of the university, and still highly influential in university decision-making, are currently confronted with higher education reforms grounded in an instrumental vision of the university (in which it is a tool for national political agendas). Consequently, powerful value-driven clashes between the academic community and the community of policymakers and reformers are to be expected to intensify. The major theoretical concepts used in this paper come from Johan P. Olsen’s, Ian McNay’s and Robert Birnbaum’s studies of university governance, and its findings are presented from a European comparative and quantitative perspective.Item Uniwersytet jako „wspólnota badaczy”? Polska z europejskiej perspektywy porównawczej i ilościowej(2014) Kwiek, MarekPo raz pierwszy „przekonania" i "zachowania” europejskiej kadry akademickiej można badać systematycznie i porównawczo przy użyciu starannie zebranych, pierwotnych danych ilościowych. Międzynarodowe dane dotyczące poglądów, postaw i zachowań akademickich otwierają nowe możliwości porównawczego badania dynamiki zmian w parze: modele rządzenia/ akademickie przekonania i zachowania. Tym samym tradycyjne university governance models, funkcjonujące na prawach typów idealnych Maxa Webera, mogą po raz pierwszy zostać skonfrontowane z dużym materiałem empirycznym zebranym w jedenastu systemach edukacyjnych Europy. Nasz artykuł jest podzielony w następujący sposób: po części wprowadzającej następuje rekonstrukcja podbudowy analitycznej (skupiona na typie zaprezentowanych tu badań oraz na kilku modelach organizacji uniwersytetu uznanych za użyteczne dla tego studium) oraz część poświęconą charakterystyce zbieranych danym i zastosowanych metod badawczych. Fragment dotyczący empirycznych wyników badań oparty jest na analizie statystyki opisowej oraz kilku specjalnie skonstruowanych indeksach, które wykorzystano do oceny stosowalności wybranych modeli rządzenia do polskich wzorców rządzenia. Wyniki badań zostały zaprezentowane z europejskiej ilościowej perspektywy porównawczej.