Scientific and pedagogical stuff (SPS) are considered in the article as, on the one hand, one of the basic social communities of the university, on the other - as a scientific and professional community and scientific and educational community. SPS are characterized by the presence of a number of resources, of which one of the least studied is a symbolic resource. The article gives an interpretation of the symbolic resourcefulness of the SPS, shows its role and significance in the development of the entire resourcefulness of this social community. The purpose of the article is to analyze the symbolic resourcing of the SPS as a phenomenon of higher education. The symbolic resourcefulness of the SPS is the subject of scientific research in the proposed article.