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Management and “Administerization” in China's Higher Education System: A View from the Trenches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2021

Terry Bodenhorn
Terry Bodenhorn*
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Abstract

Scholarship on university autonomy in China's higher education system in the past three decades has focused on the macro-relationship between the party-state and university leadership. This paper focuses instead on university-level management practices and college-level academic autonomy. Drawing on the discourse of “administerization” and “de-administerization” within Chinese academia, we demonstrate how the dual administration system and outdated management practices common in the higher education system limit academic quality and educational autonomy at the college level.

摘要

摘要

有关中国高等教育制度中的大学自治的研究在过去三十年来着重在党国和大学领导之间的关系。此篇论文的焦点在大学学校整体的管理做法和学院层级的学术自治权。基于在中国学术界有关“行政化”和“去行政化”的讨论，我们表明在高等教育制度中常见的双重行政系统和过时的管理方法是如何限制学院的学术品质和教育自治权。

Keywords

Chinese higher educationuniversity autonomycollege autonomypolicymakingadministrationmanagementadministerization and de-administerization中国高等教育大学自治学院自治政策制定行政管理行政化去行政化。
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Research Article
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The China Quarterly , Volume 244: Change, Contradiction and the State: Higher Education in Greater China , December 2020 , pp. 969 - 987
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Copyright © SOAS University of London, 2021

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