Research On The American Council On Education

The paper selected American Council on Education as research subjects, and made deeply analysis on its historical development, organizational structure,operating mechanism and main function of American Council on Education.Basing on this foundation,the paper set to explore American Council on Education's influence in the field of American higher education, its historical motive force of development and its enlightenment to us.American Council on Education,as the largest and most influential non-government and non-profit association in the field of American higher education,founded in 1918, is the only higher education intermediary organization that represents presidents and chancellors of all types of American higher education institutions.Historical development of American Council on Education shows that American Council on Education is natural product of American higher educational development.There are close link between the development of American higher education and the growth of American Council on Education.With its own positive action, American Council on Education partly makes up for the negative effects of decentralized higher education system and university autonomy tradition.American Council on Education has grown into the coordinator and the buffer between American higher education system and external system.