Regional universities in the system of local community development (using the example of higher education institutions in the Russian Federation and the Republic of Iraq)

the relevance of the topic is determined by the need for a sociological study of the current state and promising options for institutional modeling on the scale of probabilistic practices of information interaction between government authorities, local administrations, the population, university administrations and students. The relevance of the topic under study for the institutional structure of socially significant processes is also indicated by the heuristic priorities of the approaches proposed in sociology. Accordingly, the purpose of the author's research on the subject of sociology of social structure, institutions and processes is determined by the modern demand for the design of a systematic approach methodology for the scientific description of the composition and content of the elements of the university's effectiveness mechanism in interaction with the territorial community. The objectives of the research are to provide an author's justification of the options for a sociological study of the communication processes of regional universities and local communities, using the example of higher educational institutions of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Iraq. The results consist in the author's approach to establishing criteria for scientific novelty in the context of exploring options for substantiating critical arguments for understanding the modern and promising functions of regional universities when they enter the institutional structures of local communities. This study has established that optimizing the conditions for the development of the labor market, priorities of social and cultural development, and standards of successful living of the population directly implies increasing the effectiveness of educational services offered to the local community.

sociology, science, social structure, entrepreneurial university, institute, regional university, local community