Keyword: «academic culture»

The problem of searching for new methods, models of university management, the role of rector in the university management system are investigated in the article. The tasks of developing trust within the university, supporting responsibility and self-organization are specified. The purpose of the article is to find ways to overcome the excessive centralization of management, alienation of managerial functions from the chairs, restoration of academic autonomy, and increasing attention to students. The causes of the negative phenomena emergence, the facts of teachers’ loss of trust to university management are analyzed. The author reveals the most typical causes of pedagogical relations destruction, expressed in the moral and psychological persecution of teachers protesting against the bureaucratization of educational process, depreciation of pedagogical values, disintegration of academic culture.