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| University Governance and Reform in the Era of Crisis:
A Review Analysis of Ashbys Adapting Universities to
a Technological Society |
| REN Zengyuan1, LIU Na1, LI Yiming1, YU Tiangang2 |
| 1. Institute of Higher Education; 2. Division of Develop&Strategic Planning, Jilin University, Changchun 130013, China |
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Abstract Ashbys Adapting Universities to a Technological Society has aroused much concern since its translation in 1983, and has been cited more than 500 times in important and CSSCI journals. However, there has never been a systematic summary and analysis of its main ideas in the academic field. Ashbys main ideas can be classified into thoughts on university governance, on university reform and on university education. As for governance, he thinks that the university should carry out decentralized management and advocate multi participation to keep dynamic balance. In terms of reform, he suggests that active reform should be combined with progressive reform and that the internal logic of the university should play the leading role in handling the dialectical relationship between heritage and innovation. As far as student training is concerned, he holds that the supreme target is upgrading students in culture and judgment, and “the best aspects of education” and “the universitys supreme goal” will come true through communication between students and teachers
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2014, Vol. 8 
