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Study On Status Quo Of Academic Power In Universities In China

Posted on:2011-05-25Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:H P LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:1117360305963567Subject:Higher Education
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The view that academic power is weakening in China's higher education has been generally accepted. To learn the connotation of academic power, it is more important from its executor than from its scope of management. In the context of contemporary China, defining "academic power" as "the University academic staff and academic organizations control over the academic work based on its expertise and academic ability", which is straightaway definition and sharply pointed out the ills of today's Higher Education.Power comes from the right, power is external to the right, power serves the right, and right takes precedence over the power. Academic power also comes from the academic rights and serves the academic rights. Academic rights is "the source" and "end-result" of academic power. Dissimilation of academic power will hurt the basic interests of teachers and students in universities, damage the fundamental value of the University, which also leading to abnormal development of the organization and eventually leading to the "lose-lose" situation between the government and the University.In order to know the specific situation how the academic powers operating currently, we have done a empirical investigation in nearly a hundred universities, the Survey is primarily about the members' administrative background in various academic authority (Academic Committee, Academic degrees evaluating committee, Teaching committee),survey results confirmed our previous assumptions:First, there is a high degree of correlation between academic authority membership and middle-level executive positions; Second, the case exists in all types of colleges and universities, there is no obvious more stronger academic performances in research universities than in others universities.We can sort out many reasons for current situation, such as the "official standard" thinking in our traditional culture, a large number of historical issues left by the Cultural Revolution, economic backwardness and other factors, which all have more or less impacts on our university, but the most fundamental reason is the current higher education institution. The main way of the current higher education system influence universities is "bureaucratize university", which's concrete manifestations are:bureaucratizing unit-level, bureaucratizing the appointment and removal of administrative cadre, bureaucratizing the organization structure and bureaucratizing daily management. Bureaucratic atmosphere fills the University everywhere, and university has lose their proper cultural tone. University has become increasingly incapable of innovation, more academic corruption, more authority for rent-seeking and other phenomena come forth one after another.Higher Education Reform is imperative, but what form is more reasonable to run for the modern large-scale university organization? In order to balance the demands of various groups of society, and to take into account the "loosely characteristics" of academic organizations and requirements of efficiency of the modern University organization, the university should manage based on multiple forms. Implementing "true meaning" Board System in Leadership system with independent directors as the main body; Implementing strict hierarchical management in various functional departments (such as financial, personnel, infrastructure and other departments) in accordance with the common vocational standards at the same time; Implementing "similar guild system management" in the academic units (such as department, college and various academic committees).
Keywords/Search Tags:power, right, academic power, Higher Education Reform
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