Modern University System: A Culture That Helps the Benign Operation of Universities
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.211217.019How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Modern university system; Organization; System; Culture; New-built local undergraduate universities
- Abstract
According to the British biologist and educator E. Ashby, universities are the products of inheritance and the environment. Lovell, the former president of Harvard University, added that universities have existed for longer than any form of human organization. Is the long-term existence of the university in the history of human civilization the result of the environment or the result of inheritance? If university is the product of the environment, there is no doubt that it cannot compare with “any form of government”; if university is only the product of heredity, it should be the same at anytime and anywhere, without differences in “time distance” or “regional distance”. Viewing the history, universities in the reality do not operate like this. The only reason is that inheritance is the main aspect of university change, and environment is the second important aspect. Cultural tradition is its gene, and its survival age is its condition. Therefore, all the universities, especially the newly-built local undergraduate universities, take the establishment of modern university system as the premise of survival and development. And this university system is a culture for the benign operation of universities.
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TY - CONF AU - Xiaomin Sun PY - 2021 DA - 2021/12/17 TI - Modern University System: A Culture That Helps the Benign Operation of Universities BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Education Studies: Experience and Innovation (ICESEI 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 123 EP - 131 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211217.019 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.211217.019 ID - Sun2021 ER -