Forces Of The Republic Of China Famous University Leadership

The famous university presidents in the period of Republic of China has made indelible contributions to the foundation and development of Chinese modern university. People are proud of their vision, humanistic qualities, charisma, erudition, personal style, governing concept and the practice until now. In a turbulent38years during this period, the famous university presidents created a miracle in higher education. The excellent leadership of these famous presidents in their governance process has a important practical significance to the development of Chinese contemporary university and university presidents leadership.One of the important contents in studying the leadership of university presidents in that period is to explore patterns of manifestation, realizing approaches and impacts of their leadership through an analysis of their leadership activities. Although universities in that period are of different types, development goals and requirements for the leadership of presidents are different, there are still many similarities in their leadership considering the common organizational characteristics of universities.Since there were so many presidents in that period, this paper can’t analyze their leadership one by one. It’s obvious that the political, economic and cultural environments and even their personal experience, social connections may exert an influence on the leadership. Therefore, the difficulty of this paper rests with how to select appropriate cases to sum up the major factors that affect the leadership of university presidents in that period. In the paper, eighty prominent university presidents are chosen as research models and it turns out that the major influencing factors include their educational background, work experience, personal chrisma, art of leadership etc.Some prominent university presidents are selected as research objects and their leadership is analyzed so as to work out the patterns of manifestation, realizing approaches and impacts of their leadership. The leadership of several representative university presidents like Cai Yuanpei, Mei Yiqi, Zhu Kezhen etc. is analyzed and their commonalities are explored. These presidents were outstanding representatives in their circles and were spoken highly of at that time and still are later because of their effectively realizing leadership in the course of running individual universities. Through case study, this paper concludes the patterns of manifestation, realizing approaches and impacts of the leadership of paradigm university presidents in the period of the Republic of China. Specifically, their leadership is mainly reflected on their clear vision of running universities, effective running plans, lofty moral traits etc. The realizing approaches of their leadership manifests in earnestly practicing what they advocated, encouraging democracy, empowering professors to managing universities and employing rules and regulations to guarantee the realization of their leadership. The impacts of their leadership lie in optimizing conditions of running universities, improving education quality, advancing the development of universities etc.This paper first analyzes the theories about the leadership of university presidents and puts forward the contents of their leadership, that includes foresight, decision-making power, executive force and personal chrisma, through the interpretation of some basic concepts like leadership, leadership of university presidents etc. The values of their leadership lie in shaping university spirits, uniting organizations, leading the faculty and students and drive the reform of universities. Besides, based on relevant theoretical analysis of the leadership of university presidents, this paper preliminarily estimates the number of university presidents in the period of the Republic of China and analyzes the function, power and appointment rules in then government decree.This paper systematically analyzes the influencing factors, patterns of manifestation, realizing approaches and impacts of the leadership of paradigm university presidents in the period of the Republic of China by combining systematic research and priority research methods, theories about leadership and studies on paradigm university presidents at that time. The thorough analysis of the presidents in that period asserts the leadership of then presidents, and thus offers guidance to the improvement of the leadership of current domestic university presidents. The systematic research to some extend can contribute to the insufficient study on the leadership of university presidents in the period of the Republic of China.Through the analysis of universities presidents’leadership in the period of the Republic of China, the enlightenment to promote university presidents’leadership currently comes as the following:firstly, adhering to the educational ideal, and highlighting the subjective spirit in university. Based on social needs, presidents should clear the educational belief, clarify academic boundaries, stick to the strength of character for scholars, adhere to education rejuvenation, and carry forward the spirit of patriotism. Secondly, clearing the managerial responsibility and accountability, and structuring the institutional environment helpful to play presidents’ role. It is important to clear the role of university presidents, strengthen the role--awareness of university presidents, and improve the managerial system of university presidents. Thirdly, enhancing leadership, and strengthening the professionalism of university presidents. For example, the forward looking of educational ideas, the scientificity of decision-making process, the stringency of implementing process, and the calling of personality charmer. Through a variety of ways and means, improving the university presidents’forward-looking capacity, decision-making capacity, implementation capacity and influencing capacity, and cultivating first-class University President geared to international standard.