A Study On The Relationship Between University Presidents And University Competitiveness

In recent years,with the continuous development and progress of higher education in our country,more and more attention has been paid to the competitiveness of universities.As the highest leader of the university,the principalhas been placed on great hope by the society.At the same time,the research on the subject of "university president" is also increasing,Most of these studies are from the perspective of pedagogy and psychology to discusses the educational ideas and methods of University presidents.However,most of the existing literatures are mainly qualitative research,and belong to the ideal level.Opinions differ from each other.Since then,this paper attempts to use the theory of economics as well as the methd of quantitative analysis,study the relationship between the individual characteristics and the competitiveness of University presidents quantitatively.So as to provide reference for the selection and evaluation mechanism of university presidents in China.Firstly,the content and methods of the research on the university presidents are briefly summarized,and points out the goal and direction of this paper.Secondly,we choose the university ranking as a quantitative index to measure the competitiveness of universities,and summarizes the history,classification and influence of University ranking,citing the current domestic influence of University rankings,and explain them one by one.Thirdly,according to Pete's entrepreneur theory and Mason's higher order theory,we explained that as the University's highest leadership,the university presidents have an important influence on the competitiveness of universities.Then,the personal characteristics of university presidents are expanded from several dimensions,and use various theories to analyze the influence of each dimension on the competitiveness of universities,which provides sufficient theoretical support for the follow-up research.At the same time,we put forward the corresponding theoretical hypothesisThe next part is the empirical analysis.In this paper,we make the descriptive statistics of the university and its principals of selected samples,and also make a statistical analysis of the changes in the ranking of the universities,the personal characteristics of the university presidents and their exchange of the replacement;Then we conduct a series of regression analysis.Finally,we found that the president of the university has a positive effect on the competitiveness of universities,the replacement of university presidents has a negative impact on the academic level of the university,and other features of the university president,such as age,tenure,academic status,etc.,have no significant impact on the competitiveness of the university.Next,we analyze the relationship between the party secretary and the competitiveness of the university,the results show that the individual characteristics of the party secretary of the university have no significant influence on the competitiveness of the university.Finally,the paper puts forward the corresponding policy recommendations.