The Research On The Market-oriented Financing Of American Private Universities

By the comparative analysis on financing resource of Chinese and American higher education, we can find that the revenue of the market-oriented financing of American private universities has been beyond the government financial education funds and become the third major place of educational finance besides the government financial education funds and tuition .This truly make American universities form a variety of higher education funding mechanisms, and promot American higher education high-speed and high quality development. The market-oriented financing mechanisms of American private universities has important reference value for the formation of a variety of financing channel in Chinese higher education. it can provide a lot of inspiration for lifting the financial crisis that Chinese universities are facing.In this thesis,the market-oriented financing mechanisms of American private universities is the object of study with starting point of history,and it focus on analysis of models, characteristics,problems and challenges of the market-oriented financing of American private universities. The thesis consists of five parts.The first part is an introduction. In this section, the authors study the issues, and systematically expounded the significance of this research,the current status,ideas and methods,the core concept and other issues.The second part is a historical study.It summarize the historical development of the market-oriented financing of American private universities, and expound the development process of thought and practice,the background and motivation issues of the market-oriented financing of American private universities.The third part is the main part of this paper.It analyse the basic model of the market-oriented financing of American private universities. Up to the present, the primary ways of the market-oriented financing of American private universities mainly include the commercialization of education service,the socialization of rear service,the industrialization of high-tech and the corporatization of university administration.The fourth part mainly analyse the characteristics of the market-oriented financing of American private universities. Compared with other country, the market-oriented financing of American private universities has the characteristics of self-management,require-directed,competition-disclosed,renovation-flexible and supervision-institutionalized.The fifth part analyse the current problems and challenges of market-oriented financing of American private universities. A number of problems have emerged in the process of market-oriented financing of American private universities. Such as the utilitarian tendency leading to the decline of humanities and basic disciplines,the generally high fees damaging the educational fairness and impartiality, etc.. Meanwhile, market-oriented financing of American private universities is also facing many challenges, among which the most important challenge is the rapid development of society and the tendency of the utilitarian of University.Part VI, market-oriented financing of American private universities provide us much Enlightenment from a comparative perspective.