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The University Organization's Reform & Its System Innovation

Posted on:2005-10-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:T Q MaFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360152969279Subject:Higher Education
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To build the world's first-class universities is a set objective of our country'suniversity development, which depends on the resources and system space offered by thegovernment and society as well as the university's own comprehensive resources. In theface of demands of knowledge economy, discipline development, and higher educationmassification but the opportunity and predicaments in short of resources, the university stillcan't get and echo itself with a corresponding system. The university's system shortage andthe backward innovation have seriously restrained it from developing, though phasedachievements have been made in its macroscopic system reform. So, compared with themethods in the past which emphasized improving key elements in the university'sdevelopment, to change its rigid organization and its poorly efficient operation areundoubtedly the impetus for its development. The individual university organizations are used as the elementary cell of systemanalysis in this research, and the relevant problems such as organization system, systemoperating mechanism and system innovation mechanism, etc. are mainly studied, byapplying the analytical method, with the history and the current situations of Sino-westernuniversities' development. Besides, this research is carried out on the basis of the changesin the external environment. So the interactions between the university's inside system andexternal environment are the basic viewpoint throughout this article. Universities are essentially an academic organization. Though the university's externalconnections and its inside structures are becoming increasingly complicated in the courseof development, its academic purport that "advanced knowledge" is the operating materialsremains unchanged. The university's knowledge conduct determines its systemcharacteristics. But the modern university organizations are under more and moreinterference of different external forces and the control of the inside administrative rights,which have restrained the academic functions from full plays. The purpose of the systeminnovation lies in constantly breaking the system obstacles that don't adapt to the academicinnovation to excite the university's academic vigor. The argument foundation in thisresearch is that the university is an academic organization, so to set up the modernuniversity system is to build the universities as an academic organization. Modern social development's emphasis on the university functions and theuniversity's dependence on external resources can both lead to the government'sinterference and administrative control while the academic logic of the universitydevelopment determines that it is a independent one in essence. The institutional course of IIIthe Chinese university organizations indicates that a university, if independent in academy,can be prosperous, otherwise, the academic innovation will be obstructed. The key of theuniversity development is to form the external environment of running a school on its own.Since 1980s, as the government lightened restrictions on universities progressively, thetheme position of the university organization has begun to protrude, the mechanism of theuniversity's independent system innovation begins to take shape. Because of the "inertia"of Chinese university's planning system as well as the imperfection of the social securitymechanism, unit system is still the cruxes restraining our country's universities fromdeveloping. With the university's enlargement and more and more organized activities, theuniversity is increasingly being developed into a specialized organization from atraditionally scholars' self-governing institute, with some typical bureaucraticcharacteristics formed. While bureaucracy in the university organizational managementembody the positive functions, its negative functions are also implied in both theuniversity...
Keywords/Search Tags:University system, University organization, System innovation, Organization reform
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