The collective monograph reflects the results of a theoretical and empirical study of the formation of a nonlinear model of Russian higher education in the macroregion in the context of economic and social uncertainty. The concept and structure of the nonlinear model of higher education is disclosed, the methodology and methods for studying the transformation of higher education in the macroregion in the context of nonlinearity is characterized. Questions of typology of high schools of the Ural macroregion and network interactions on its basis are considered. The possibilities of creating network universities in the Urals Federal District are shown. Extensive empirical material in the form of the results of a mass representative survey of educational communities in the higher educational institutions of the District and expert interviews became the basis for the analysis of a number of actual problems of higher education in the macroregion. Among them: the interaction of educational communities, their academic mobility, institutional trust, the model of management of higher education institutions and, in general, the higher school of the Ural Federal District, the structures and mechanisms of this management, the possibilities, resources and limitations of the implementation of the nonlinear model, its risks and barriers. The monograph also describes the economic, legal and social grounds and mechanisms for the implementation of the new model of higher education, the activation of the social partnership of universities, public authorities, stakeholders in the Urals macroregion.
For sociologists, researchers and practitioners of higher education, scientific, pedagogical and managerial staff of universities, students, all those interested in modern problems of higher education and its development.