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A Research On University Governance Structure From The Perspective Of University Academic Organization

Posted on:2016-03-23Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y L LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2297330482964320Subject:Higher Education
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Academic is the foundation of university built to last forever and is also the conditions for university development and progress. This research, standing in country’s development strategy height of “deepening comprehensive reform of education field, speeding up the modernization of the system and ability of education governance” and following the rules and logic of university academic developing, aims to build the university governance structure based on the university academic organizational attributes to realize the development of university academic.First of all, the concept of university governance structure and university organization attributes was analyzed in theory to explore the relationship and its nature of university governance structure and organization attributes, and then demonstrates and analyzes that university academic attributes determine the development of academic must be maintained in university governance structure, which is the foundation of university governance structure. Second, by analyzing Britain, Germany and the United States university governance structure which occupied an important position in higher education history by historical overview, it proves that university autonomy and academic freedom are the first point, sticking to the academic governance idea and academic governance system. Third, by tracing back to the history of Qing Dynasty, the period of the Republic of China and the new China, the university governance structure characteristics was analyzed from the perspective of historical evolution. The crux of the problems was explored from the roots of concept, management and history in university governance. Centralized management and official standard logic of university internal administrative power suppressing academic power deeply affect the academic development of universities, especially the training of high-quality talents. Finally, this research, from the philosophy basis, route choice and institutional guarantee, expounded that idea foundation and choice choosing must be based on academic attributes. At the idea level, it points out that universities should stick to the idea of “university autonomy and academic freedom” so as to change from “unilateral governance” to “pluralistic governance”. On the route selection level, it puts forward the construction of modern university external management environment and the internal governance structure. The external governance structure is built up by university autonomy principle; the internal governance power is built up by academic freedom to realize the changes from “administrative governance” to “academic governance” and the administrative power to service the academic power. From the system security level, it puts forward that the law and articles of university are formulated.The innovation of university governance structure lies in continuously breaking the obstacles to academic innovation system. Therefore, universities should follow the natural survival logic based on the academic axis and stick to the institutionalization of idea of university academic nature so as to create an academic freedom atmosphere, build a healthy academic system environment as well as an academic institutional system, and to improve the capacity of university governance. A large quantity of outstanding talents and innovative talents will be cultivated, thus improving the quality and level of university education from a higher level.
Keywords/Search Tags:university governance structure, academic organization, academic attribute, characteristic, roots, countermeasures
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