Comparative Research Between China And The United States Higher Education Social Donation

In recent years, the popularization of higher education in China accelerated, accompanied by the sizeand number of colleges and universities rapid expansion, the development of higher education a prosperoussituation, but the shortage of funds and school debt has long been plagued by universities, governments andrelated departments. Therefore, how to raise school funds has become a hot and difficult problems. In orderto expand higher education funding sources, since the1990s, our country asked the multi-channel andmulti-faceted initiatives to raise funds for education, under the premise of the main channel of governmentfunding to encourage the financing of education through tuition fees, industry, social donations and othermulti-channel funding. After more than ten years of efforts, the diversification of sources of funding patternhas been formed. However, the long-standing social donation account for the proportion of total highereducation funding has been relatively low, this level of economic development is not commensurate withthe rapid increase in China, we urgently need to learn from international experience in this regard.The United States as the world’s one of the most developed countries in economic, technological,educational, multi-faceted financing of higher education funding, in particular, there are many successfulexperiences and practices to social donations. In this paper, the donation of American higher education andsocial comparison, analysis of the characteristics of Sino-US higher education social donations, summed upthe U.S. higher education community to donate a successful experience, the recommendations put forwardby China’s higher education community to donate.China and the United States higher education funding sources of government funding, tuition and fees,schools, income generation, social endowment income, China’s higher education funding is mainlydependent on government, the U.S. colleges and universities and the source of funding is very diverse,which social donation to share the proportion is much higher than China’s.China and the United States higher education community donor source is nothing less than theFoundation donation, alumni donations, corporate donations, personal donations, but the proportion play arole in the size of China and the United States two distinct. Our society donation is steadily increasing yearby year, but the proportion is small. In the U.S., the government investment, fee income and endowmentincome was the "three pillars" of the situation. The reason why the society donated a large proportion, mainly due to the strong economic strength,long history, advanced the concept of culture, a sound legal policy and effective community of donororganizations, management and operation. China’s higher education community to donate my difficulties,there is a single donation of content, the willingness to donate is not strong; Foundation income is low; thelack of supervision of charitable organizations, lack of transparency.The problems of China’s higher education community to donate the following recommendations: toimprove laws and regulations, to give policy support; focus on the supervision and management, to create atransparent public welfare; focus on advocacy and guidance, create a thick atmosphere; improve theearning of colleges and universities foundation; great importance to alumni resources to improve the senseof service.