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Universities occupy a special place in the city's life, the place where centuries-old traditions of the past meet the future. Universities keep their ancestral roots stretching back into the Middle Ages. University rooms and laboratories are the places where the future of science and society is built and discussed.The oldest Siberian University located in Tomsk was included in the City Charter as a city-forming enterprise. Other Siberian cities have not yet come to such deep comprehension of the role of universities. But who can doubt the significance and beneficence of this role?A complex and debatable process of reformation of the Russian higher education has been going on for several decades. Many things are perceived painfully. Irkutsk has been a student city for a long time and ranked second in the percentage of students among citizens. But recently we have lost Irkutsk High Military Aviation Engineering School, nearly lost the MIA High School. Pedagogical University has lost its status of university, and then its independence. Linguistic University has turned into a branch of Moscow University…Besides, external threats still exist and even grow. The lands and the buildings of universities are of keen interest among big businessmen, speculators and developers… Isn't it the reason why the ideas to evacuate universities to suburban campuses arise increasingly frequently?What is the impact of dislocation of universities out of the city historical center? Does it make the city poorer and older? Or safer and more manageable? As usual, we tried to show the challenge and diversity of the main topic of the issue. ; Университет – особое место в жизни города, место, где многовековые традиции прошлого встречаются с будущим. Университеты хранят свои родовые корни, уходящие в Средневековье. В университетских аудиториях и лабораториях конструируется и обсуждается будущее науки и общества.Самый старый из сибирских университетов в Томске вошел в Устав города в качестве градообразующего предприятия. Другие сибирские города пока еще не дошли до столь глубокого осознания роли университетов, но кто же будет сомневаться в значительности и благотворности этой роли?Вот уже не первое десятилетие идет непростой и неоднозначный процесс реформации российского высшего образования. Многое воспринимается болезненно. Иркутск долгое время был студенческим городом и прочно занимал второе место по процентному присутствию студентов среди жителей города. Но в последнее время мы потеряли ИВВАИУ, чуть не потеряли Высшую школу МВД, Педагогический университет потерял статус университета, а затем и самостоятельность, Лингвистический университет превратился в филиал московского вуза.Сохраняют (и даже наращивают) актуальность и внешние угрозы. Земли и здания университетов вызывают острый интерес у крупного бизнеса, спекулянтов и застройщиков. Не потому ли все чаще «всплывают» идеи эвакуировать университеты в загородные кампусы?Как влияет вынос университетов из исторического центра города? Обедняет город, старит его? Делает город более безопасным и управляемым? Как обычно, мы постарались показать главную тему нашего выпуска максимально неоднозначной, спорной, разнообразной.

This paper analyzes the scientific discourse of governance and university governance within the framework of the existing concepts, it also deals with alternation of university governance in the context of European higher education regulations and directives, presents analysis of the traditional and entrepreneurial university governance models of the content aspect. It also presents the results of "International Comparative Research on University Governance Models" carried out by the paper authors emphasizing the context of Finland's higher education and university governance and the case of Lapland University. Although traditional higher education values dominate in many missions and visions of Finnish universities, internal institutional governance of the University of Lapland has recently become entrepreneurial. Good governance of the university is associated not only with distinction of administrative and academic functions, reduction of bureaucratic processes, but also with the openness of the university, good communication and understanding of the academic culture.

The article analyses a regional university as a social institution on the example of the case of the Ingush State University. A general description of the university is given. It is shown that a regional university in modern conditions as a social institution acquires special significance both as a scientific institution, and as the main element of the regional educational space, and as a center of an innovative economy. The Ingush University focuses on continuing professional education, that includes pre-university training, secondary vocational education, higher vocational education at various levels, as well as postgraduate and additional vocational education. Opportunities for obtaining secondary vocational and higher education for socially vulnerable segments of the population are expanding. The university is one of the largest employers in the region, therefore, the article emphasises its role in solving the problem of graduates employment. The university provides opportunities for stable employment for representatives of the highest qualifications, who otherwise would not have been able to find an occupation due to the peculiarities of the structure of the depressed regional economy. In addition, the conditions for the development of small innovative enterprises are being formed at the Ingush State University. The driving force behind this process is the Engineering Center, a supplier of a sorbent with a high sorption capacity to the Russian market. The centre is aimed at a long-term solution of problems in the development of modified sorption materials that are used in a wide range of industries, including medicine and agronomy, to eliminate environmental pollution as a result of oil spills, to purify wastewater from various organic substances. The culture-creating role of the university in the space of regional culture is multifaceted. The university, on the one hand, is part of the world cultural and educational community, on the other hand, it works to preserve, develop and spread the culture of the regional peoples. The article analyses the integrative function of the university in the creation and support of a single educational and cultural space as an important condition for state unity and sustainable development of our multinational country. The role of the rector's personality in solving the problems facing the regional university in modern conditions is emphasized.