University Public Crisis :Growth And Governance

University Public Crisis refers to those significant colonial cases initiated by certain university's organization, which will possibly cause the university's organization or even the society to be in disorder. University Public Crisis is the comprehensive reflection and enlargement of the various current social conflicts existing in political, economic, cultural field and so on.In view of the position and influence of the universities in social life, University Public Crisis often exerts great impact on the society and government, and then forms a threat to the social order and the legitimacy of the government, which makes it totally impossible for any government to show indifference to it. Especially at present, so many factors, such as the continuous college expansion in recent years, the full-scale reform implemented by universities themselves, problems exposed in the depth of political system in the process of China's reform and opening to the outside world, the sharp increase in the number of the social vulnerable groups, the decrease of the government's social controlling power, the further division of the interests groups, the challenge confronted by the national interests and so on, make the frequent explosion of the University Public Crisis available, which indicates both theoretical and practical significances of this research.The analytical framework of this research is based on the Grounded Theory. The primary hypothesis about the features, inducement, growth and government of the University Public Crisis will be drawn on the basis of systematic analysis of the related cases. Then, according to the required procedure of the Grounded Theory, further discussion about the primary hypothesis will be made.The analysis of the problem and the hypothesis will be strictly launched according to the required procedures of Grounded Theory gradually. The conclusions that the inducement of the UPC's value conflicts and growth mechanism caused by various factors will be finally reached by adopting such a research paradigm as theoretical sampling, open coding, axial coding, model's establishment, selecting coding, story line's exploration and finally the conclusion.The Grounded Theory usually discusses the hypothesis too simply while this research verifies the conclusion drawn on the basis of the Grounded Theory theoretically and makes the conclusion rich and systematic not only by adopting the matured theories such as Social Conflicts and so on to analyze the specific cases but also by applying logical deduction to it. Thus, not only the integrity of the Grounded Theory's research paradigm can be kept, but also it forms the pattern that the Grounded Theory and the logical deduction can be supported by each other, which enhances the reliability of the research.Through the work mentioned above, the conclusions drawn from this research are as follows: first, University Public Crisis has the features like huge impact, abrupt occurring, organization and complexity. The components of the University Public Crisis include the parties involved in the conflicts, the aim and the means of the conflict. For one thing, the University Public Crisis has the destructive effect; for another, it will urge the society and the universities to improve themselves constantly. According to the different inducements, the University Public Crisis can be divided into several groups. Second, the inducement of the University Public Crisis is the value conflicts between government and universities. But the impetus of this kind of conflict originates from the nature of the knowledge and authority. The difference between the ideal values of the human society always pursued and held by the universities and the pragmatic ones chosen by the government for the real purpose leads to the value conflicts. By further observation, this research finds the macro-inducement of the value conflicts originates from the social changes itself and the division of the social class and the formation of discourses caused by the social changes. Third, the growth mechanism of the University Public Crisis is a complicated organic process. University's characters, preference, legend and its features formed in the pursuit of knowledge and truth lead to the historical strained relations with the government's pragmatic values and its consciousness of authority featured by force. And also, the university has the ethical motivation and culture background which can make it easier for the university to launch a criticism in action to the government. When such strained relations are intensified to a certain degree, the University Public Crisis will immediately break out because of the interdiction of the bilateral communication and the intensification of the accidental event. In view of the university's special social status and its clarion call, University Public Crisis will have a greater impact. Fourth, the governance of the University Public Crisis must take the form of institutionalization. Because the universities and government's respective natures and social roles cause the inevitable value conflicts between them, the final object of the UPC's governance should be like this: the value criticism of the universities can be expressed through the effective, sufficient and legal way offered by the authority within the present system. To put it another way, the universities'value criticism should be made into an institutional action or public opinion's criticism through the effective system offering. This pattern of governing the UPC through the institutionalization should not only include the communication, compromise, social mobilization, social constraint and so on in crisis, but also contain the various kinds of laws and regulations and management measures for early warning, evasion and elimination of the crisis in the universities'daily government. From the aspect of the theory, it should be like this: when and only when the government constantly improves the implication of the justice and motivates various social resources effectively, the possibility of the University Public Crisis's eruption will be decreased and the value conflicts between the government and the universities or between the authority of the university and its organizations will be expressed within the system in the form of institutionalization.