Construction of Higher Vocational Colleges’ Council: Function Orientation and Operation Mechanism: Experience from American Community Colleges’ Board of Trustees
（Planning and Technology Service Department, Shanghai Publishing and Printing College, Shanghai 200093，China）
Abstract：The construction of higher vocational colleges’ council which optimizes the college governance structure can promote the cooperation between schools and enterprises, which is significant to improve the quality of talent training. The current councils of higher vocational colleges are mainly clarified into two forms of comprehensive and professional but neither forms are on a large scale. The trustees staff composition of American community college board reflects the principle of cogovernance by diverse stakeholders; the function orientation focuses on multiparty communication, comprehensive decision and supervision; the operation mechanism emphasizes on independence but also collaborates with administrative system; the colleges take a variety of measures to enhance the professionalism of the board to perform its functions. The construction experience of American community college board of trustees can provide a useful reference for the construction and operation of the council of higher vocational colleges in China.
罗尧成, 肖纲领. 高职院校理事会的职能定位与运行机制 ——美国社区学院董事会的经验借鉴[J]. 高校教育管理, 2016, 10(1): 105-110.
LUO Yao-Cheng, XIAO Gang-Ling. Construction of Higher Vocational Colleges’ Council: Function Orientation and Operation Mechanism: Experience from American Community Colleges’ Board of Trustees. Journal of Higher Education Management, 2016, 10(1): 105-110.
2016, Vol. 10 
