Chapter 10: Administration, Organization, and Control in Higher Education

Abstract

Abstract At the November 1979 Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU (Communist Party of the Soviet Union) it was observed that utilization of all the resources, all the tremendous capabilities of mature socialist society for the acceleration of its progress, makes it necessary to "raise the level of administration in the broad sense of these terms."1 In higher education, as in other sectors of the national economy, the goals of improving the mechanisms, forms, and methods of administration, or management, are extremely timely. Functioning under conditions of an extremely broad system of interrelationships and interdependencies, and under conditions of dynamic changes in the requirements placed on the functioning and final results of the activities of higher educational institutions, higher education is required to respond to these needs on an ongoing basis and to embody them in its specific administrative decisions, ensuring that they are consistently put into practice in the interests of steadily improving the training and education of specialists and the development of scientific research work in full accordance with the needs of our society.