The Weakness and Strengthening of Academic Power in the University

Abstract

The academic power is need of, teaching and finding profound knowledge of University, also need of ensuring legitimate interests of teachers. Our universities lacks tradition of academic autonomy, academic power was weakened, severely affect function of universities to play. Must reform university and strength university's academic power. KEYWORD: academic power; profound knowledge; academic organizations; professional International Conference on Industrial Technology and Management Science (ITMS 2015) © 2015. The authors Published by Atlantis Press 894 2 THE PERFORMANCE OF ACADEMIC POWER WEAKENING 2.1 Academic resources are preempted by administrative personnel Academic power is power to guarantee benefit of academic staff. The damage of academic staff interests is performance of Academic power weakening. Administrative personnel take academic resources, this leads to harm of teachers' rights and interests and destroys academic principles of fair competition and hinder real academic research activities. In universities, administrative personnel using power to possession all kinds of academic resources: various academic title preempted by administrative personnel, in 2009 ministry of education named 100 famous teachers, more than 90 are in leadership positions, not ordinary teachers.[4] In A well-known 985 principal is voted as most popular teacher by students, but role of principal is not the first as a teacher. A variety of research projects have also been possessed by administrative personnel, generally teachers are difficult to get, Teachers cannot compete with administrative personnel have power when applying for research projects. 2.2 Academic organization is marginalized and administrative Marginalization of academic organization is performance of Academic power weakening. In China, academic organization does not have decision-making power, academic policy is not laid down by academic organization, also do not need to be passed by academic organization. Administrative agencies lay down various academic regulations, whether those regulations are reasonable or not, academic staff need to be unconditional obedience. academic organization do not form its own system, dismembered by administrative organs, and technology such as scientific research committee belonging to Science and Technology Department, teaching steering committee affiliated to teaching affairs department and so on, academic organization dismembered inevitably leads to weakness of academic power. At same time, academic organization are administrative: a large number of administrative staff is filled with academic organizations .this leads to administrative personnel have both administrative power and academic power, form scholar-tyrant who is both officials and scholars, seriously influence academic ecology. 3 THE HARM OF ACADEMIC POWER WEAKENING 3.1 The value orientation to officials The weakness of academic power makes some scholar to officer not to “scholars “in university. The generalization of administrative power result highly respect of executive leadership, and professor can't get a due respect. This makes university not as university but as a government and make a lot of people try to seek administrative leadership positions. There are 40 professors compete for a director in Shenzhen.[5] A lot of people gain successful in academic career requires administrative leadership positions, university leaders tends to use official in order to retain outstanding scholars. This does not only waste rare resources of academic manpower but also lead to administrative bloated. There is 1872601 staff in regular institutions of higher education in our country in 2006, of which only 1075989 people fulltime teachers accounted for only 58%.[6] 3.2 Influence academic staff's work enthusiasm The weakness of academic power influences work of teaching and researching. The academic power is too small to attract outstanding scholars to administrative positions, to makes college has a large of officer professor, and this is serious waste of academic resources. Administrative power is so big that generally scholar’s right cannot be guaranteed and be lack of academic development, this seriously influence academic staff enthusiasm for teaching and researching, in end affects efficiency and quality of university teaching and researching activities. In a word, weakness of academic power makes university deviate from characteristics of its academic organization, makes university don't like university but as a government agency, influence normal play of function of teaching, scientific researching and social servicing and cultural hesitating and innovating of university. 4 COUNTERMEASURES TO STRENGTHEN THE ACADEMIC POWER College is not purely academic community today, there are scholars and administrative personnel in university, and they are party of university and should exercise their respective powers to complete their responsibilities. The weakness of academic power in our country’s university do harm to university‘s function, we must strengthen academic power in university.