An Ecological Study On The Development Of University Talents In China

The development of university and its talents should be a "natural" and ecological process. However, at present there exist many problems of talent development in our universities,which haven’t been well dealt with in education science and management, and need an analytical investigation from different aspects and in different ways of thinking. Ecology can account for the phenomenon and problem scientifically and reasonably:the problems in talent development in our universities are actually the ecological crisis in ecological system of the university talents, which is the result of combined action of various restriction factors. The main structure of talent ecosystem has become imbalanced, the ecological environment has been increasingly out of control and the function of talent ecosystem has lost efficacy, which have a strong impact on the talent cultivation, scientific research, social work and culture inheritance and innovation of unversities. Therefore, we must establish scientific ecologic outlook on talents, take powerful measures and conduct ecological rescue.From the persoective of university talent management, borrowing the ecological principles and methods, basing the value of "the harmonious development of human and ecology, the research ecologically analyses then problems of talent development of our universities. From "human talent"itself, the dissertation studies the current status of talent work, relates the talent development to ecological harmony, and centers on "universities"----the special talent ecosystem. Moreover, from the three levels of "main body, environment and system", the dissertation focuses on the particularity of individual talent, population and community, the effect and impact on talent development that ecological environment has as well as the structure, function and operation of ecosystem. The research finds out the problems in talent ecosystem, clarifies the reasons and seek the solutions.University is a special talent ecosystem. Not only does it have the same ecological characteristics as the general system, it has its own individualities as follows. The first is all work is focused on "human talents". It pays close attention to the life of talent (the natural life, academic life and spiritual life) and attaches importance to the development of talents (natural development, development in an all-around way, personality development and integrated development). The second is its openness.Universities and society have a circulation of materials, energy flow and information transfer to each other.The university talents have complicated relations with other talent individuals, population and community through the "food chain" and conduct various forms of talent flows, knowledge flows and information flows. The third is that it can be controlled. The inner ecosystem of every individual talent is a life system, which can have self-regulation. While the main body of talent ecosystem and its environment constitute an artificial external ecosystem, which can be regulated artificially. Therefore, analysing the talent ecosystem, the dissertation constructs scientific ecologic outlook on talents, not only focusing on talents, but also valuing ecology, and basing on the principles of human nature, integrity, relevance, balance, and applicability, the research studies the relationship of main body and environment, heredity and heteromorphosis, balance and imbalance, mutualistic symbiosis and competition.The talents in universities are more nowledgable, intelligent and creative. To persue the best ecological niche, individual talents exist in the ecosystem in the form of ndividual, population and cummunity, playing the part of teachers, subject specialists, administrators, general staff and so on, equipped with corresponding qualities, having its special ecological requirements, and maintain the various relationship between competition and mutualistic symbiosis, coevolution in the system. Due to different "restricted factors", structural imbalance arises in the ecological main body of universities, influencing the functioning of individual talents and population, which should be optimized by adjusting the structures to have an overall effect.The ecosystem of university talents is a multidimensional environment. In space, it can be divided into out-of-school environment and campus environment. From the perspective of material environment, institutional environment, cultural environment, academic environment and management environment, the study discusses the interrelationship between talents and environment, that is, environment influences talents and vise versa. The study did a questionnaire survey to the campus environment of five universities in a province, the result of which indicates that the ecological environment of university talents has increasingly been out of control, and the talents are unsatisfied with their campus environment, and the environment should be regulated so that special ecological environment is persued to have a green-house effect.The main body of talents and ecological environment constitute university ecological system. In the system, various ecological chains focusing on knowledge form the complicated talent network, where different trophic levels function as talent flow, knowledge flow, and information tranfer. Due to the imbalance of ecological major structure and the increasingly uncontrolable talent ecological environment, the function of ecological system has gradually lost its efficacy and needs to be renovated, to have its effect of "position" and "power".