The Selection Of Development Model Of Chinese Private Higher Education

Since 1999, Universities and colleges began to recruit even more students and run independent colleges. So Chinese private higher education went into the stage of adjustment. In the present China has to rapidly develop private higher education for its important function.After Chinese private higher education were provided with basic development conditions, for some factors Chinese private higher education formed the mode of mercerization at the end of the 20th century.Chinese mercerization mode of private higher education shows distinctive feature. Firstly it is market-oriented; Secondly its center work is to enroll students; Thirdly it is subordinate to train the students'human capital; The organizers is the center of the power in the private universities and colleges; Most of the organizers'motive is to make money; The private colleges have strait accounting.In the present, Chinese mercerization mode of private higher education is confronted with serious challenges:firstly the number of students is decreasing; There is vicious competition in the field of higher education; Thirdly it is difficult to find a good job for the graduates; Fourthly the government is absent in the role of encouragement and regulation; Fifthly the government is offside in the leadership and adminstration system.Sixthly the organizers'motive is twisted, and so on. Chinese mercerization mode of private higher education can't last again.These can be explained well by the system equilibrium theory and social transformation theory.So which developing mode must be selected for Chinese private higher education? The dissertation studied the characteristics of the mode of American private higher education for reference. And it showed that American private higher education didn't choose the mercerization mode, the profit mode rising in the seventies does not become the main one, and the dominant mode of American private higher education is still non-profit mode until now. By comparing the conditions between America and China, it proved that Chinese private higher education can't choose the mercerization mode for the dominant mode. In view of Chinese reality and American private higher education experience, the dissertation consider that Chinese private higher education will have to select social enterprise mode for the dominant mode. It is both inevitable and feasible for Chinese private higher education to select social enterprise mode. It is important to select social enterprise mode.At last, the dissertation elaborate the operational policies setting of social enterprise mode of Chinese private higher education. First the state must improve the external environment of higher education development; Secondly the state must plan all kinds of Chinese higher education well; Thirdly the state must issue the policies to encourage developing social enterprise private universities and colleges; Fourthly the government strengthen the supervision to the private universities and colleges; Fifthly the social entrepreneurs of private universities and colleges must do their best to maintain the balance of the system.