The Study Of Countermeasures In The Development Of University Professional President Based On Comparison Between China And USA

The president is the soul for the development of university, University president plays a critical role in the process of building the world-class university. However,nowadays, In a market economy, Universities subject status of a legal person, that runs a school independently. After into the post-massification higher education stage,The multiple-function and gigantic scale of university, the more classification of university and the improvement of university quality, universities need to transform and upgrade. Since the management of university become more complicate.Universities need to become autonomous, competitive, interdependent institutions instead of administrative institutions. Meanwhile, the university presidents need to be self-management performance administrator,risk taker,developer serving the whole society, instead of obey orders from government.The university presidents need to be a educationist,politician who have great passion in education and professional knowledge instead of officer and scholar.The phenomenon of “administration”of education in universities’ management system and “official standard” of University Presidents has caused the attention of people and aroused the desire for change.The study begin with the urge demand of development of university in China.This paper elaborated the feature,necessity,connotation,role orientation of professional president, In this study, The samples are the university presidents from top 15 universities in China and USA. Make a comparison in their academic background,professional background, selection system,training system,salary system.By comparison, there is a big difference. Firstly, on the part of academic background,It was found that most presidents in USA have more diversified academic background.But in China most presidents got ph.d in science and engineering. On the part of professional background, President of the university in USA occupation flow greatly frequently than in our country; Compared with the selection system,it is more fair and democratic; And the training form and content of USA university presidents is more diversified. Their salary is market-oriented.The system of selection is more democratization than China. The system of training is more diversity.According to the comparison and the condition of present, this paper sums up a conclusion about how to be a professional university president.It contains how to change the ideology about profession-ism,to complete and perfect the selection andtraining system.In order to promote the development of the university professional presidents.