Study On The World’s Top70Universities In The Principal Selection Criteria And Procedure

In2011, our country began to select university presidents in public, the pool ofperennial water, is going to be on the ripples. The ministry of education chose NortheastNormal University and Southwest University of Finance and Economics, the first attempt,to open the president selection of college and university. In2012, the ministry of educationheld another open selection at home and abroad for the second time, the universitiescontain the University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing University of ChineseMedicine, China Pharmaceutical University. Since the reform and opening up, thechanging social situation changes people expectation for higher education, highereducation reform has never stopped, which is an increasingly louder call for the principalprofessionalization. How to select university presidents efficiently and reasonably is aninevitable proposition, the headmaster’s professional development in colleges anduniversities in China is a great significance to the development of higher education.For a long time, university president selection stays in appointed by government inChina, the study of which is relatively scarce. University president selection problem hasnot taken attention of the related department. University president is the soul of theuniversities-as the highest executive official of the school, who has a decisive influence tothe universities’ smooth running, reform and innovation. American higher education hasbeen among the forefront in the world after a series of long-term exploration and reform,and the professional development of American university principal is becomingincreasingly sophisticated. A number of outstanding principals emerged that we can learn.This dissertation selects Britain The Times Higher Education supplement with IDPEducation group’s global starting in2011-2012world university ranking top70universities’ principals as research object, with individual characteristics, educationbackground, professional background, promotion path as a level1dimension, and with theuniversity president’s gender, age, highest degree, highest degree belongs, singledisciplines or interdisciplinary background, whether has learning experiences in currentlyemployed school, whether has served in other organization or not, the nature of it, the termof it, whether the president has experience working in other colleges or universities,thenature of the former position，the term of it, the selection standard, selection process, whendid president took this position and the term, the university ranking, the developmentsituation of university as a level2dimension. Through these aspects, we can analysis universities aboard empirically. And combining the development status of our universitypresident open selection, we can target to provide empirical data and feasible suggestionsto establishment of the university president selection system...