试论独立学院的法律属性和特征

A Study on the Legal Attributes and Characteristics of Independent Colleges

独立学院是我国在上世纪末出现的高等教育的一种新形式。其法律性质属于法人型的民办非企业单位,具有通过协议方式设立、多元投资主体、同时兼具"公益性"和"营利性"成分、按民办机制运行以及是一种探索性的办学形式等特征。

Independent Colleges are a new form of higher education in our country appearing at the end of last century. The nature defines it as a non-enterprise private legal entity. Its characteristics include being set up by means of agreements, multidimension of investors, public welfare and profit making, running by machanism of private education, and a research of the new-form education.