Administration And Academia

Since the end of 1990s, the popularization of the higher education in China has began accelerating. As a result, the governance of the university has increasingly handicapped the higher education's further development, which is not only a problem of the practice, but also a problem needed to be discussed theoretically. Accumulation in quantity leads to the change of the quality of the thing consequentially, so the change in the governance of the university turns into a key step in the development of our country's higher education.This paper reviews the governance of the university in the dimension of value, institution and operation. Firstly, it embarks on the dimension of value. On the basis of summarizing of the origin of the principle of academic autonomy and academic freedom in Europe, the evolvement of the principle of academic autonomy and academic freedom in China and the modern theory of power, it convinces that the academic power has the relativity and the faculty should not fulfill the academic power alone. Then it discusses the dimension of institution through the structure and the constitution of universities, which is the key point of the paper. As for the structure, it conceives of the change of the structure of our country's universities on the basis of description of several universities in America and in China; as for the constitution, it tries to design the establishing process and component of the university's constitution, and concludes the implementing factors of the constitution simply, using the theory of law process and legislation process and on the basis of the analysis of the Ordinance and Statute of three universities in Hong Kong. Lastly, with regard to the dimension of operation, the paper mainly takes the three American universities introducing modern tools and methods of management for example, and generalizes the way of carrying out the scientific management in the university's administration departments.In a word, it should be more comprehensive to analyze the governance of universities in China in the three dimensions and more feasible to supply advice on the change, which may be helpful to the reform of our country's universities.