Research On Faculty Management System Of Amherst College In America

Amherst College is the best liberal arts colleges in the United States. The College commentates of faculty management system through employment handbook, in which the faculty’s handbook is the specific embodiment of faculty management system. On the one hand, A study based on faculty handbook of a typical American liberal arts colleges can provide a reference for the writing of the faculty handbook in colleges and universities, on the other hand as a supplement for the faculties’ management system research that based on American faculty handbook.Based on text analysis of Amherst College Faculty Handbook, this paper studies Amherst College faculty management system from five parts. In the introduction part, this paper elaborated theoretical basis, defined the core concepts, and analyses the relevant literature; the second chapter summarizes the Amherst college faculty management organization and system, from institutional Settings and division of labor, system and related files. Institutions including decision-making departments, academic departments and administrative departments, institutional documents including "Amherst college faculty handbook" and "Amherst college staff handbook". The third chapter discusses the content of Amherst college faculties’ management system, respectively from the faculties’ employment system, faculties’ evaluation and promotion system, faculties’ flow system, holiday system and faculties’ appealing system; The fourth chapter analyzes the characters of Amherst college’s faculty management system is pursuit of academic freedom teachers, promote common development, and have a sound management system and mode, etc; The conclusion part focuses on enlightenment got from Amherst college Faculties’management system and analyzes the insufficient of faculty management system of higher education in our country, and put forward the significance of Amherst college.At present, the reforms of our country’s university Points out that system need to interpretation, only to be understood can play a role. The universities and colleges should take the faculty handbook as the way of teachers understand the university’s policy system and the important way to the allocation of resources. And constantly writing and improve the university’s own faculty handbook. Study based on the developed countries faculty handbook to research faculty management system provides the reference for faculty management in colleges and universities management model in our country, and has important significance to establish modern university system and improve the school internal management.