Uniwersytet Śląski z siedzibą w Cieszynie w procesie zmian

Abstract

The university located in Silesia has a short official name, i.e. “The University of Silesia”, however, most frequently, in the colloquial language, it is used in its broadened version, i.e. “The University of Silesia in Katowice” . The very name only partially reflects a contemporary location and functioning of the school. Although the seat of the authorities of the University of Silesia and the majority of its departments are situated in Katowice, many units permanently settled into the structure of several other cities of the Silesian Voivodship: Sosnowiec, Chorzów, Rybnik, Jastrzębie-Zdrój, and Cieszyn — an informal capital of Cieszyn Silesia. It would be impossible to imagine Cieszyn without the university “in Bobrek” these days, as people living in Cieszyn say. It is already a stable and inviolable element of a cultural landscape and social structure of the city and Cieszyn country. The university in Cieszyn has its regional and border trait — unique and original adjusted to European trends.