A Break With Convention, A Transformation With Punctuated

There are a large number of specialist schools changed into undergraduate institutions by merger and reorganization since 1998. Because of their short history, they are usually called as "new undergraduate institutions." Objectively speaking, the form of such institutions is already undergraduate institution, however, they still do not really achieve the requirements of the undergraduate institution. They are in transitional period changing from level transition to the content transition. So it is an urgent problem of new undergraduate institutions how to change formal transition to essential transition.The research is built on a basic point that "development of new undergraduate institutions in transition", in order to provide practical theory to these institutions, the research takes the transformation development as the main line. In accordance with the approaches "general -- individual, static-- dynamic". It takes the theoretical research according to the practice interview from the reality of the new institutions. It also attempts to make a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of related variables which affect the institution's transition within the self-organization theoretical framework, and reveal the inherent developmental logic of undergraduate institutions in transition.The first part of the dissertation is in the full view of the development of new undergraduate institutions in transition, taking the argument as precondition and according to the study thinking from surface to point. First, it gives a profound analysis on the causes of emergence of the new undergraduate institutions from the overall perspective, and points out that such institutions are the results of history and practice. At the same time, it mentions that transition development is the rational choice for the new undergraduate institution to rid of its present difficulties and realize the healthy operation through describing the actuality of the new undergraduate institutions which were "catch up" development and its internal and external difficulty. Second, the study begins with the cases, selecting three different types of new undergraduate institutions as cases to make depth field research. It shows their true transition development by describing the panoramic description. And it proves that the new undergraduate institutions only for the routine breakthrough, achieving transition development to defuse the crisis in advance, to the best state of their own development.The second part of the dissertation takes the self-organization theory as the analytical framework, and discusses on the transition development of new undergraduate institutions from both static and dynamic dimension. First of all, it filters out three one--stair variables from the comprehensive search of the factors that affect the transition development of new undergraduate institutions in static level. It points out that the impact of each variable is non--balanced, the exogenous variables playing complementary role is the objective conditions in the transition development, the endogenous variable playing a leading role is the real basis for the transition development, the dominant variable is the internal restructuring of transition development by overall analysis each variable and its subordinate two variables. Second, it explores the internal and regularity mechanism of the new undergraduate institutions in dynamic level. It reveals the relationship and the essence of interaction among the variables, and points out that basic driving force in transition development is the competition among the various variables and their nonlinear synergies. It also mentions that bifurcation and restructuring choice is the path of the transition development, and the gradual transition and bound transition are the two main ways of the transition development.The third part of the dissertation analyzes the aim trend of new undergraduate institution according to the practice review and theory analysis result. It mentions that the reasonable aim of the new undergraduate institution is to be the teaching and service oriented university with Chinese characteristic. And the basic strategy is stratagem programming, organize change and system innovation.The main conclusion of the dissertation:(1)New undergraduate institution is the production of acclimation the times development. The difficulty which they faced is companion during its development. These institutions must exert their predominance and actualize transformation, if they want to get rid of scrape, and realize their value.(2)New undergraduate institution's transition has certain direction rather than driftlessness which embodies its value tropism and ideal pursuing. It is an integration functioned by the factors both inside and outside.(3) It is the aim of new undergraduate institution to be the teach-servicing university with Chinese characteristic. And the main action strategy is the trinity model of"stratagem—organization—system".