“The Idea of a University”, its Spiritual-Humanitarian Values and Content

The article considers the changes taking place in a contemporary university under the influence of globalization processes. The authors note the following contradiction: on the one hand, according to the logic of globalization processes, “the idea of a university” today must assume a purpose to ensure a new world linguistic, cultural and national order. What choice lies in store for a university if it cannot ignore globalization processes and, at the same time, it cannot give up its national spiritual distinctiveness? A solution of the contradiction is linked to a search for new forms of existence of culture and spirituality as a humanitarian component of the university's life and the content of its “idea”. The contemporary “idea of a university” finds itself in the unity of universal and individual, global and local.