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

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and “de-administerization” within Chinese academia, we demonstrate how the dual administration system and outdated management practices common in the higher education system limit academic quality and educational autonomy at the college level.

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“… Lauret (2018 ) argued that ‘trusting institutions’ oscillates between institutional confidence and mere reliance, depending on the social function of the institution at hand. In the context of China, due to the administerization of academia ( Bodenhorn, 2020 ) and the administrative absorption of society ( Kang & Han, 2007 ), the public may perceive both scientific institution and community administrative institution are closely related with government and thus their trust in these institutions could be affected by mode of health communication in a similar way.…”

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