The article considers the need to find new guidelines for rethinking the content of university activities from the perspective of emerging modern trends in the conditions of significant transformation of international relations and socio-economic development of society. The author pays special attention to the definition of trends of intellectualization of the university as an intellectual corporation, oriented to the needs of the individual, society and the state as a whole.
The author draws attention to the continuity of the ideas of humanism of thinkers, educators, teachers and scientists in the education system, preservation and development of pedagogical thought and education through scientific schools. The article considers the historical and pedagogical heritage from the point of view of scientific mentoring in modern education as an effective way for scientists, mentors to transfer experience, culture, knowledge to their students in the process of creating products of scientific research. The methodological basis of the study was the principle of social orientation, which guarantees the effective development of university activities as an intellectual socially-oriented corporation and is based on the ideas of socioeducation.
The research used general theoretical (retrospective analysis and systematization of scientific literature on this problem) and practical methods (analysis of university development strategies, regulatory and legal framework, activities of scientific mentors in the format of scientific schools).
The scientific novelty of the research lies in the identification of modern trends of intellectualization of the university as a socially oriented intellectual corporation:
- the request of a socially oriented state for the vision of the university as an intellectual socially oriented educational corporation;
- strengthening the fundamental nature of higher education;
- maintaining the position of higher education, based on its usefulness and prospects;
- training of scientific and pedagogical personnel in the process of continuous research activities in the format of scientific schools.
The analysis of the identified modern trends of intellectualization of higher education allowed us to identify a number of directions of university activities, which should be paid attention to in the development, adjustment and implementation of university development strategies. The materials of this study will be useful for teachers, heads of universities, as well as scientists, applicants, post-graduate students.
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