The purpose of this study is to describe the strategies of interaction with alumni and suggest directions for their inclusion in the managerial arsenal of the central administration of the university. The Far Eastern Federal University, relatively recently created on the basis of four independent universities, three of which were strongly industry-oriented, provides rich material for research on strategies of interaction with alumni that have developed in its various structural divisions. At the same time, most of these strategies are not initiated by the central administration, and the biggest part of them even is out of its view. Strategies for interaction with alumni arise as forms of reproduction, increment and conversion of the social capital of alumni, leaders of the academic community and several departments of the university. The university appears to researchers as a kind of “exchange office”, in which there is a constant movement of different types of capital, the main of which is social and its subspecies – alumni capital.
Земцов Дмитрий Игоревич — проректор по развитию Дальневосточного федерального университета. E-mail: zemtsov.d@gmail.com (контактное лицо для переписки) Яськов Илья Олегович — заместитель проректора по развитию Дальневосточного федерального университета. E-mail: iyaskov@gmail.com Адрес: 690922, Приморский край, Владивосток, остров Русский, п. Аякс 10. Во время пандемии COVID‑19 неформальные студенческие организации в Дальневосточном федеральном университете проявили большую активность и получили серьезную поддержку администрации. С начала пандемии количество известных администрации неформальных студенческих объединений не уменьшилось, как можно было ожидать, а увеличилось. Судя по результатам проведенного исследования, неформальные студенческие объединения по их ценности для участников образовательного процесса сравнимы с основными образовательными программами, хотя к таким объединениям студентов не побуждают ни формальные требования, ни артикулированный социальный заказ. На основании интервью с участниками неформальных студенческих объединений (волонтерского сообщества, группы волонтеров-медиков, объединений студентов — будущих инженеров и программистов), преподавателями и администраторами авторы выделяют следующие основания, по которым неформальные студенческие объединения признаются ценностью в университетской корпорации: как способ вхождения в профессию, как ответ на негласный запрос на «взросление» студента, приобретение им субъектности, как способ «присвоения» образовательного пространства, перехода студента в статус члена университетской корпорации. Вместе с тем ряд респондентов фиксируют общезначимую и самостоятельную ценность самоорганизации студенческих команд. Авторы приходят к выводу, что для российских университетов неформальные студенческие объединения являются одной из негласных автономных ценностей, подкрепленной настолько же негласным общественным запросом на «коллективистское воспитание», и приглашают к дискуссии по этому вопросу.
The purpose of this article is to determine the potential for constructive social change that can reach the communities of technology enthusiasts in Russian universities, and to identify possible directions for such changes. University communities of technology enthusiasts and the sites where they work are chosen as the object of research: fab labs, CMITs, circles. The basic conceptual framework of the research is the theory of fields, which asserts that society is a system of embedded social fields. Social changes in this theory are referred to as the transformation of existing social fields or the emergence of new ones. The term “practice of the future” is first introduced, and understood as a group of people united by common interests in advanced technological and social solutions sharing common activities and knowledge (sharing), but not included in a sustainable social field. The hypothesis of the present study is that communities of practice of the future have the capacity for social change and the directions of such changes can be identified through the analysis of strategies that are consistently applied in these communities. The semi-structured in-depth interviews of leaders and participants of university student technological centers are used as the material for the study. The article concludes that the two most obvious social fields in which communities of technology enthusiasts of Russian universities are capable of producing changes are the field of technological entrepreneurship and the field of educational innovation. In the first of these fields, the strategies of technology enthusiasts (initiative, project orientation, diversity and meritocracy) give advantages over players who do not employ these strategies. In the second field (educational innovation) these strategies can give the direction of changes, bringing together enthusiasts of relevant educational technologies. Social changes of the techno-optimistic type generated by the university communities of technology enthusiasts is not yet directed to a specific social field. However, examples of large-scale country-wide projects show that such a field is beginning to form. It is quite possible that modern university communities of technology enthusiasts are able to generate a social field no less powerful than their predecessors – the movement of technological kruzhoks – at the begining of the 20th century.
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