Value Of .21 Century University President Optimization Problems

President is crucial to good colleges. It is normally said that whatever presidents will have whatever colleges. President is the sprit of college. The construction and qualification of president will have a great influence on the direction and quality of our advanced education. And also will influence on the future of our country and nation.With our higher education's expansion and popularity, the society raises new requirements for the management system and organization way of universities. After accession into WTO, higher education will enter into an overall competition era. This requires university presidents to change ideas of running university, absorb foreign university's mature management system and use for reference; and perfect their own qualification structure so that they can play their role fully. This paper is delivered and finished under such background. The whole paper is divided into five parts.First, through discussion the presidents' development history, the paper indicates this occupation develops with human education's development. It is closely connected with university education. President came into existence in near society. Because of intense competition, there will be more and more exchange and challenge between international universities. This demands universities to make decision promptly and in time. So it's urgent and necessary to study how to actualize the presidents' value. The paper introduces some study methods, such as dynamic research and qualitative study.Second, the paper illustrates situation about presidents in UK and American universities in detail. Mainly introduces president's development history, selection procedures and the power and value in developed countries. At the same time, it simply introduce presidents' situation in our countries. By comparison analysis, the paper finds there are gaps of presidents' value actualization between developed countries and our country. These gaps provide research direction for the study of presidents' value actualization.Third, through the questionnaire investigation, it points out that during the study of presidents' value actualization, we should put emphasis on the following aspects: presidents' part orientation, authority and force, decision ability and management art. And put up with some related ideas and measures for presidents to improve theirability in these four aspects. This has some instruction function for value actualization ofpresidents.At last, the paper points in the 21st century, there will be some changes in the qualification and view of presidents. The presidents should have international view and ideas. The modernization of education needs presidents' modernization. And the modernized presidents should have modernized idea system. The paper put up with some thought system that presidents should have in new century, such as innovation and strategy thought, etc.