published_or_final_version / Politics and Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

published_or_final_version / Politics and Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

Thesis (Ed. D)--Teachers College, Columbia University. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Chang-tu Hu. Dissertation Committee: Walter E. Sindlinger. Includes bibliographical references.

高等教育全球化与大众化的发展增强了提升高等教育质量的诉求。国家之间的竞争及新公共管理改革促发了国家政府越来越多以灵活的高等教育质量政策干预大学活动。在中国内地，运行中的本科教学质量工程政策指示了中国大学与国家关系在当下的特征。学界近年来对高等教育质量政策研究的关注也聚焦于借由具有实操性的公共政策研究理论探索高等教育质量政策工具调整及大学与国家在微观政策层面的实然关系变化。 / 本文以基于情境互动考虑的政策演绎理论为视角，追问演绎中的高等教育质量工程政策如何体现中国大学与国家的关系。在质量工程政策的实证案例研究中，通过访谈大学中实际操作政策的老师，参与观察他们的政策实践，分析相关政策文本，具体地回应大学中的政策行动者如何解读新政策的情境特征并将政策再情境化，大学中的个体政策行动者如何理解和实践自己在新政策过程中的角色，处于特定情境中的政策演绎如何形成具有群体特征的政策理解路径与实践行为轨迹，又指示了怎样的大学与国家关系。 / 研究发现，质量工程政策执行过程中，大学老师感受到来自政策的多元刺激，他们对新政策的关注及意义赋予最终通过质量工程项目的形式固定下来，也将本科教学领域的大学与国家关系实体化了。政策执行过程具体由担纲不同角色的政策行动者演绎出来，而不同的政策角色分层次于微观政策层面进行着建立大学与国家关系的工作。在这次由国家政策发起的教学改革中，形成了学术性和行政性两种典型的群体性政策互动，分别强调了大学与国家关系在教学与教学管理两个方面的特征。 / 本研究的研究意义在于，以具有启发性的概念工具划分出具有建设性的政策过程分析单元，增强了对复杂政策过程的解释力，更挖掘出鲜活运行中的大学国家关系深层结构。研究发现有助于更好地理解质量工程政策执行及中国高等教育质量政策的发展态势，为解决时下政策问题及拓展相关政策研究提供了启发性概念及数据。 / The state has increased focus on improving the quality of higher education through external intervention in terms of higher education quality policy under the national and global competition in higher education and new public management reform. In Chinese mainland, the characteristics of ongoing Quality Project Policy of higher education are indicating the changing relations between the State and the Chinese university. The research is a qualitative case study of Quality Project Policy in the theoretical perspective of policy enactment, exploring the micro-level university-state relations in mainland China. In the study, the first-hand policy response of the university teacher has been collected to analyze how the teacher interpret the new policy instrument, what kind of role they enact in the policy process, and how their interactions indicate the feature of Chinese university-state relations. / It finds that during the enactment of Quality Project Policy, (1) the university teacher recognized the mixed stimulus of policy instruments, and the Quality Project Programmes had solidified the teacher’s policy concern and meaning-making in this national undergraduate teaching reform; (2) the university teacher enacted different policy roles and contributed differently to build micro-level university-state relations; (3) there were two typical patterns of interaction among multiply policy roles - academic one and administrative one, and these two patterns of policy interaction emphasized two different aspects of Chinese university-state relations in the field of undergraduate teaching and learning - teaching quality and administration quality of teaching. / The study facilities in building a better understanding of ongoing Quality Project Policy of Chinese higher education through a heuristic conceptual framework, and contributes to explore the deep structure of Chinese university-state relations. The empirical data and analytical ideas of policy enactment shall enrich the discussion on higher education quality policy and the role of state in higher education quality reform. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 孟瀏今. / Parallel title from added title page. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 214-237). / Abstracts also in English. / Meng Liujin.

published_or_final_version / Public Administration / Master / Master of Public Administration

This study explores the notion of autonomy in the dynamics of private higher education in China. Focusing on the role and function of autonomy in the operation of private institutions of higher education, it examines the evolution of government policy, documents the recent rapid development of private post-secondary institutions, and investigates the quality of the relationships between private institutions, their communities, society and government. / Data were collected from government sources and from fifty-six private institutions through various methods, including interviews, questionnaires and case studies. / Qualitative analysis of the data revealed different dimensions, perceptions, and patterns of autonomy in these institutions. / The study found that institutional autonomy has generally promoted efficiency and flexibility in the operation of these institutions and allowed adaptability and responsiveness to changing social and economic conditions which in turn, have enabled private higher education to contribute significantly to the on-going transformation of Chinese society. However, such autonomy is subject to both external internal constraints and problems, including some restrictive government policies, the lack of financial resources and inexperience in private school operation.

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This study has two purposes: (1) to document and analyze the centralization phenomena in China's higher education system and (2) to make suggestions to improve or modify the centralization of China's higher education system in light of the documentation and analysis. A major outcome of this study is an analysis of telephone interviews and secondary documents, and four recommendations are derived from this analysis. In this study four research questions have been investigated: (1) What relationship exists between the government and individual colleges or universities? What should this relationship be? (2) What kind of relationship exists between the Party committee and the university administration, especially the relationship between the university president and Party committee? What should this relationship be? (3) How much autonomy should the colleges and universities possess? (4) How should higher education institutions move from the centralization planning economy and adapt themselves to the market economy? Two methods have been employed in this study: secondary document analysis and telephone interviewing. The secondary analysis consists of information collection in both Chinese and American libraries, information evaluation, categorization, and analysis. The telephone interviewing has been used to strengthen secondary analysis. The interviews were conducted with 15 Chinese scholars who were studying in the U.S. at the time and who have either worked in China's higher education system for more than ten years or have assumed some administrative responsibilities above the department level in that system. The major findings of the telephone interviews and secondary analysis lead to the conclusion that the higher education system in present China is highly centralized and, according to the consensus viewpoint, should be decentralized in light of the four recommendations made in this study. / Ph. D.

占盛丽. / 论文(哲学博士)--香港中文大学, 2004. / 参考文献 (p. 189-203). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest dissertations and theses, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts also in English. / Zhan Shengli. / Lun wen (Zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2004. / Can kao wen xian (p. 189-203).

歐陽敬孝. / 論文(哲學博士)--香港中文大學, 2002. / 參考文獻 (p. 248-270). / 中英文摘要. / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [200-] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Ouyang Jingxiao. / Zhong Ying wen zhai yao. / Lun wen (zhe xue bo shi)--Xianggang Zhong wen da xue, 2002. / Can kao wen xian (p. 248-270).