Modern universities are largely kept a special esprit de corps, a corporate academic culture of their predecessors. The interests of society and the individual intersect in the corporation and the university as a corporation has become the so-called "mirror of society", which reflects his true, based on the past (tradition), and laid the future (novelty). The transformation of the university, its goals and values taking place under the pressure of external circumstances, and each such change is directly reflected on the principles of drawing up educational programs, conducting philosophical and scientific research, and, consequently, on the mission of universities.
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