Personnel potential of CPI in 1976-1985: problems of formation and functioning

Personnel potential is the most important indicator of the efficiency of each university. The relevance of the issue of the quality of training and work of scientific and pedagogical personnel is confirmed by the new challenges faced by the higher education system during the pandemic and the associated transition to a distance learning format. Thanks to the faculty, most Russian universities were able to timely restructure their training courses, adapt to new conditions, and prepare students for intermediate and final certification. Teachers of SUSU showed a high result in mastering new ways of organizing work, demonstrating professionalism and competence in a crisis situation. The remote format of work, the transition to which was unscheduled and forced, revealed new qualitative characteristics of the personnel potential of Russian universities. For the state, criteria for determining the quality of higher school workers were formed back in the Soviet era. Among the universities of Chelyabinsk that were actively engaged in research activities during the study period, the Chelyabinsk Polytechnic Institute should be distinguished. The article analyzes the main directions of formation and functioning of personnel potential of PSI. Contradictions of the specified period in the work of the teaching staff of the higher school are revealed. The effectiveness of the state policy for the development of university science is analyzed, imbalances in the functioning of the personnel potential of technical departments and the peculiarities of the work of structural divisions of the university related to the teaching of social sciences are characterized.