走向一流大学的基础——重建现代学术制度

现代大学制度之保障,是我们创建一流大学最深刻的基础.现代大学制度包括两方面的根本内容:一是大学的法律制度和治理结构,其基本要素是办学的自主性、合理高效的校内组织架构和科学、公正、透明的办事规则与程序;二是大学的学术制度,其核心要素是学术的独立和自由,它既是法律制度的实现,更是大学内部开展学术活动的基本原则,也是处理大学与社会经济关系的尺度,因而作为大学学术研究和思想创新的基础,与创建一流大学有着更深刻直接的联系.重建现代大学学术制度,是现有的研究型大学走向世界一流的深刻基础.从目前的实际境况和可运作的策略考虑,大学的管理者和教授们共同努力,从多方面克服和改变学术活动、学术行为本身存在的问题,是重建现代大学学术制度的一条现实而可行的途径.而在大学自身使命和功利追求之间采取正确的态度,则是实现这种重建的认识前提.

The Foundation of Building Top-ranking Universities--Rebuilding Modern Academic System

The security of modern university system is the most profound foundation of building top-ranking universities.Modern university system includes two essential aspects.One is about the university administrative structure and legal provisions,whose basic elements are the freedom to run a school,the high efficiency of inside organization,and as well as the fair and transparent regulations and procedure in handling affairs.The other one is the university academic system,whose core element is the academic freedom and independence,which is the realization of university legal provisions,and moreover the basic rule of issuing academic activities inside university,and as well as the yardstick for dealing with the economic relationship between university and society.As the foundation of university academic research and ideological innovation,it has a more profound and direct relation with building top-ranking universities and rebuilding modern academic system,and is the groundwork of present research-oriented universities' course to be worldwide top-ranking universities.A practical way to rebuild modern academic system is to think from current actual situation and practical strategy,and to joint the efforts of university administrators and professors in order to overcome and correct the problems existing in the academic activities and academic behavior itself,and in particular,to estimate and test this system in terms of quality,and as well as to adopt an appropriate attitude between university's own mission and pursuit of material gain,which is the knowledge presupposition of achieving this rebuilding.