| Due to the change of internal and external environment, institutions of higher education a re facing challenges of popularization, globalization, mercerization, etc. Promoting the coordi native development between the university and the environment by making a developmental plan is not only an important means of strategic management for universities, but also an im portant measure of scientific development. There are some problems of the development al plan in colleges and universities including the formalism of the developmental plan in colleges and universities, scientific developmental plan text is not enough. The dev elopmental planning of colleges and universities are put away and has not been effecti ve implemented when the plan was finished. As the main part of the core elements o f university developmental planning process caused the attention of the author: Who in the formulation of development planning? And what are advantages and disadvantages in different types of subject. Who will prepare the development planning of colleges and universities?Based on literature research and case studies methods, the author has conducted the research on the problem of the main formulator for development planning in colleges and universities. The development planning of colleges and universities mainly include planning and participants, and the planning is the main force. The main formulator in colleges and universities plays an important role in the development planning, to play strategic discoverer,analysts, catalyst and strategist. The type of main formulator in colleges and universities including: the school staff leading, outside experts leading and hybrid.By the school staff as the leading university developmental planning body has both advantages and disadvantages. The school staff planning mainly includes the convenience of the internal information. Perform development planning flexibility and other advantages, but there are also some disadvantages. Such as: the limitations of professional knowledge,limiting prospective development planning, mind-set, the science of hindering the development of planning, influence on the development planning of fairness. The subordinate status, it is difficult to guarantee the independence development planning. With outside experts and leading universities development planning subjects have professional knowledge advantage, the neutral position advantage. But it showed the difficult to understanding the advantages and disadvantages of institutions of higher education, such as professional limitations.Given the intensifying internal and external environment in colleges and universities, the complexity of the development planning process and necessity of improving execution efficiency multiple stakeholders are required to participate in the development planning of colleges and universities, the current "hybrid" formulator lack of outside campus leadership, alumni, other founder to participate. Based on a personnel knowledge and benefit balance principle the preparation of the subject is proposed involvingtop leaderã€functional departments leader〠the majority of faculty and staff〠studentsã€external experts 〠outside the school leadership 〠alumni and other sponsors, parents.Multiple participation main body establishment mechanism is proposed. |