The Study On The Operation Mechanism Of Contemperary China's University Education Fund

The University Education and Development Fund is a non-profit fundraising organization under the leadership of the president and the university Party committee at home and abroad. Its function lies in maintaining the national investment of higher education as the principal sector continuingly, and energetically exploring the society's capital raising channels in unison in order to attract social force to make investment for higher education, and to ensure the durative, stable and rapid development of higher education. As a non-profit organization, the University Education Fund is a product under the intense ongoing transition of the society, which means, there's a late start and little experience. Meanwhile, the level of the models from abroad is relatively low. From this perspective, the study of the University Education Fund's status quo and its evolution can bring out some significant economic and social understandings related to the development of our country's funds for education and the national higher education under this background. Yet a clearer view on the development of the funds for education in all universities depends on a profound knowledge of their status quo, which refers to the organization structure, fundraising system, distribution mechanism, supervision and the assessment system of the programs. Only on the basis of this can we provide and some policies and proposals with practical evidence and value.The paper takes some practical and theoretical materials with on-the-spot investigations as a foundation, from the angles of the social reform theory, the economics of education and the educational sociology theory, the country and the society relationship theory and the social interconnection theory, trying to discuss the developing trends and some possible problems of the University Education Fund and then further its step to propose plans on strengthening the faith, system and ethics on the administration of our nation's higher education funds, and to build & shape a developing path of them which will lead the newly started ones onto a healthy and safe road.The first chapter mainly defines the basic concept of the University Education Fund. Firstly, it opens with the concept of "non-profit" organization, which explains the characteristic, range, developing period, sorting system and the legal administration system, the interrelationship among governments and the supervision administration system with some analysis on the concept of "fund" & "foundation", and the related characteristics of China's national funds, in order to introduce the concept of university fund for education.The second chapter discusses the organizational structure of the university fund for education in its operation. As a public organization, it is necessary to balance the interrelationship with the university's executive branch in order to win the equal status for itself while facing the complicated market environment and the multi-leveled social effects. Thus, the upper authority's "power-cut" phenomenon can be avoided, and the predictability of the fund's development can be advanced. Secondly, only when there's a good balance of the interconnection between the fund and its internal staff members can it come into the idea of "people foremost", which would successfully combine the internal staff members' benefits and the benefits of the fund itself, and then raise their working efficiency and more profitably achieve the goal. Lastly, the University Education Fund also has to balance the interrelationship with the public, for the sake of providing better service to the people and win their, especially the investors' trust, to acquire the fund's most important donations.The third chapter talks about the important strategic position of the essential donation-promotion work which directly interact with all sectors of the society as the bond of the University Education Fund and all other social systems in the fund's operating process. In another word, only the donation-promotion work can be the unfailing source of the fund's existence and development. No matter how flawless the organization might be, there would be no money to run the fund without the donation-promotion work. In this study, we have laid our focus on the dominant position of the donation-promotion work in the University Education Fund, including the fund's level of independence, the elementary feature of the promotion idea, and the alumni-oriented donation characteristic of the fund ...etc. Furthermore, there's a discussion on the opinion that the University Education Fund would neither survive in a comparatively minified market under increasingly heated competition and narrowed promotion space without a specialized organization and a well-trained team, nor without a good cooperation between the funds and the universities or a complete renewal of the donation-promotion idea.The fourth chapter points out the process of the capital distribution in the distribution mechanism of the university funds for education in contemporary China consists of three parts, including public expenditure, operation cost and investment appreciation. About the methods of capital distribution, its structure, aiming direction, distribution channels, distribution standards and resources are explained. On the basis of the analysis above, some characteristics of the capital distribution like the deficiency of funds, the diversity and apparently reinforced flexibility of distribution means and the decision-making methods are discovered.The fifth chapter further explores the idea that the establishment of a reasonable scientific incentive mechanism is a premise for maintaining the staff members' high working efficiency and a propeller for the organization's development. From this aspect of the University Education Fund, we are now introducing the idea that we should strictly differentiate the internal and external incentive mechanisms for the staff members, and put together and take advantage of both the formal and the informal encouragements, as well as make good use of the culture-valued encouragement based on that of the economic interests. In addition, the incentive mechanism of the University Education Fund shows some features like the injustice of formal encouragement, the uncertainty of the informal encouragement, and the fragility of some value-focused incentive methods. These are all characteristics and problems of the University Education Fund that should be inevitably revealed under the backdrop of the intense ongoing transition of the society.The sixth chapter is a combination with the study of some practical conditions. We have found that an effective supervision would not only ensure a benign circle and a coordinated development of the whole system, but also greatly raise the efficiency of the fund's social activities, and increase the benefits related to the social operation. In order to find a better way of investigating the supervision system of the University Education Fund, we have primarily made some deeper analysis on its status quo from the two angles of autonomy and heteronomy. Through such analysis, we have come to the decision: it is autonomy that plays an important role in the University Education Fund's perfection and development. As long as the public-society relationship develops, the interconnected society is also leading the University Education Fund forward from the heteronomy type to the autonomy type. This has partially demonstrated the nature and function of the fund and realized a co-direction relationship between the people and the society described in the interconnection theory.The seventh chapter mainly emphasizes the undoubtedly important position of the assessment system in the operation of the University Education Fund. The assessment system is an essential part of the perfection and development process of the fund, which possesses some irreplaceable functions in this interconnected society, and a non-negligible system in the operation. Hereby, the assessment of the University Education Fund has formed into an all-directional comprehensive one. Viewing from its content, it has covered different evaluations on the fund's duty, strategy, donation-efficiency, program-running, supervision, ability-construction, manpower resources management and financial administration. Viewing from the assessment leaders, there are organizational self-assessment, a third party assessment, and assessment from the peer-competitors, the media, the public and the government. Viewing from the main body of the participants, the upper-leveled administrators, council members, staff members in charge of certain programs or activities, beneficiaries, organizers, community leaders, founders, investors, cooperative fellows and major volunteers and administrators are all included.Lastly, the paper points out that with the development of both the society and the University Education Fund itself, new problems tend to appear constantly in the practical process. About these problems, we should strengthen the understanding of the operation mechanism in the University Education Fund. Only in this way, the operation space and operating ability of the fund could be enlarged and improved.