Abstract:

Looking forward for life and vocational experiences is a natural component of youth motivation, especially when we mean university students. Still, the numerous and recently produced techniques are dominating the vision of students’ situation in modern Russian university, so provoking a reevaluation of common-sense expectations in the face of newly emerging inertia of administrative inertia, which is prone to produce innovative advantages within the university education. Our empirical survey that targets the students of the Ural Federal University (406 respondents, all forms of education) brings some raw facts to the surface of on-going structural and functional changes in modern Russian university. The whole bulk of meaningful details that guarantee students arrival to future civilizational achievements is absolutely ignored by existing formulas of innovation management in its application to university as a science producing place. People are still closer to science than the administration of science, which is dominating modern Russian university. However, the cultural phenomenon of university life has several resources that always give chance to new generations of students to be unpredictable and nevertheless successful. It is high time to move on a little bit further than inertial expectations that corelate educational, researching, and professional intentions of modern students. Moreover, a common-sense principle of studentship as a self-sufficient life period makes us to repeat some ugly truths about research motivation that speak up for the irrationalism and anarchism of genuine cognitive expectations, which is a romanticism axiom of human nature. Thus, not a modified management patterns called to seduce actual students to future science, but somewhat neo-traditionalist attitude of the professors to the existing dilemma of survival and prospective science staffing in the university points in the direction of viable solutions not for Russian universities only, still, mostly.

Keywords:

Research motivation, student science, student motivation, modern university.