Justyna Pokojska

Proceedings of the 13th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2022, Vol. I, pp. 25-28 (2022); https://doi.org/10.54808/IMCIC2022.01.25

Justyna Pokojska
Digital Economy Lab (DELab), Faculty of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

Cite this paper as:
Pokojska, J. (2022). Towards the University of the Future: Quo Vadis Academia?. In N. Callaos, J. Horne, B. Sánchez, M. Savoie, Y. Wang (Eds.), Proceedings of the 13th International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics: IMCIC 2022, Vol. I, pp. 25-28. International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics. https://doi.org/10.54808/IMCIC2022.01.25

The aim of this paper is to reflect on the future of the academy as a center for creating new ideas and values as well as shaping competences necessary in society (Collins, Halverson 2018, Schwab 2016). The role of universities is therefore to equip students with the skills they need on the labor market, but also shape attitudes that will allow them to adapt to the constant changing reality and achieve their own goals in the volatile and uncertain era of digital disruption (Śledziewska, Włoch 2020, Arthur 2011). The new socio-economic reality, radically changed during the technological revolution, requires thorough consideration of the that academia plays today to maintain its moral and educational legitimacy. Therefore, the idea of the university of the future should base on five interrelated pillars, involving actors from various social backgrounds. These are: a reconstructed vision of the university, responsible and committed lecturers, empowered students, well-established relations with the socio-economic environment and a fully exploited potential of the digital environment. and only a skillful combination of these elements will allow the university to maintain a social and moral mandate to shape the dispositions and attitudes of the next generations.