The Idea On Management Of University's President In Modern China And The Modernization Of The Chinese Higher Education

In brief, the modernization of the Chinese higher education is a change course of history from the traditional higher education to the modern higher education. The idea on management of a university's president is the guiding ideology when the president manage a university and it also means the guiding thought for running a university. It is a rational knowledge for the idea and law of education which a university president's rational understandings for the times. From the angle of the idea on management of the university's president, we can find the law of higher education's reformation and development, and also investigate the modernization of the Chinese higher education. Nowadays, we can gain a positive enlightenment when we adopt a scientific attitude towards the traditional higher education and use for reference and absorb in foreign advanced educational theories, educational systems, educational methods and set up the systems with Chinese-featured Socialism educational theories and develop the Socialist higher education.The starting point of the Chinese modern higher education is JingShiDaXueTang(a college was set up in 1862). It had undergone four history periods successively: the period of the Self-Strengthening Movement, the period of the Reform Movement, the period of the 1911 Revolution early or late and the period of the Republic of China before 1949. It is a history course for the Chinese higher education to transform, renew, change in the pounding, impacting and exchanging course between the Chinese and the Western culture. It is a historical course that the Chinese higher education study and use for reference the Western higher education, transformation and renew the traditional higher education, and make great efforts to pursue advanced educationallevels in the world after the modern Capitalism sprang up.A group of famous universities' presidents with times features and innovational spirits had played a positive role in the historical transformation such as Cai Yuanpei, Mei Yiqi, Zhang Doling, etc. They respectively had carried out a transformation, and had achieved remarkable success with their unique ideas on management in PeiKing university, Tsinghua university, Nankai university, etc. They set some good examples to promote the modernization of the Chinese higher education. Their thoughts, practice and achievements of running a university still have a positive effect for reference up to now.The historical experience indicates that the transformation and development of higher education must meet the needs of the transformation and development of the politics, economy and culture of a society. The idea on management of a university's president directly or indirectly dominates and affects the transformation and development of higher education. A university's president first should be an educational thinker and he should also have scientific idea on management.