Abstract
The article describes functions and authorities of academic councils of Ukrainian universities as the basis of their autonomy in historical aspect. The purpose of the paper is to study academic council activity evolution in Ukrainian Universities of the XIX-th century through singling out and characterization its stages from the modern standpoint to strengthen university autonomy, develop the quality of university management and prevent mistakes and shortcomings of the previous period. The applied methods were: general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, systematization, and generalization) and methods of historical research (chronological, logical-historical, historical-typological, and retrospective). The most important findings have become distinguishing and characterizing four stages of activity of academic councils in Ukrainian universities within the studied period: I stage (1804 - 1835), II stage (1835 - 1863), III stage (1863 - 1884), IV stage (1884 - 1906). Characterization of the stages of academic council functions and authority development from the modern position has demonstrated that in order to develop the quality of university management as well as educational service quality universities need real university autonomy, which should be strong enough to prevent mistakes and shortcomings of the previous periods.
Highlights
In today’s world there is no doubt that education is one of the pillars of development of both the individual and society as a whole
The conducted historical and pedagogical analysis allowed distinguishing and characterizing four stages of activity of academic councils in Ukrainian universities within the studied period: The first stage (1804-1835) was the official recognition and legislative registration of the activities of academic councils. The peculiarity of this stage was the development of the regulatory framework that controlled the mechanism of creation and operation of academic councils
Characteristic features of this stage were manifested in outlining the composition of academic councils, defining their functions, standardization of methods of interaction with other management structures, establishing the degree of control and accountability to state power
Summary
In today’s world there is no doubt that education is one of the pillars of development of both the individual and society as a whole. Academic autonomy provides the right of representative collegial governing bodies to form their own strategy for the development of the educational institution, to choose priorities in teaching and research, to profile programs, to establish their own criteria for selecting faculty and admission of students, etc. Since the core of university autonomy is the issue of qualitative collegial self-government represented by academic councils, deep study and creative rethinking from the modern standpoint of historical experience (namely the finding out and studying certain stages of evolution of academic councils work, including Ukraine in the XIX century) may be significant for many spheres: firstly, the qualitative development of modern universities; secondly, as a source of enrichment of management theory and practice; thirdly, for pedagogical history; fourthly, for historical science, and for studying human culture, civilization development and quality of life in general
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