区域高等教育如何走向高质量协同发展--基于多重制度逻辑的分析

Towards High-Quality Coordinated Development of Regional Higher Education:An Analysis Based on Multiple Institutional Logics

区域高等教育协同发展已经成为教育强国和区域现代化的战略支撑,但进展较为缓慢,其原因是体制性的。区域高等教育协同发展的推进是多重制度逻辑相互作用的复杂而又充满矛盾的过程:中央政府行为具有促进区域联通合作与激励地方竞争发展的双重取向,地方政府以本地利益最大化为目标在合作与竞争之间权衡游走,公办高校受限于集权高等教育治理模式以致参与区域合作动力不足。实现区域高等教育高质量协同发展,须以应对地方政府竞争和推动政校关系改革为抓手,分别在中央和地方、国家和社会两个层面进行治理制度创新。将推动区域高等教育协同发展纳入地方政府政绩考核、优化中央对地方政府区域高等教育合作行为的协调机制、扩大公办高校办学自主权以拓展其区域合作空间、支持社会力量深度参与区域高等教育合作,是推动区域高等教育协同发展的关键路径。

The coordinated development of regional higher education has emerged as a strategic pillar for strengthening education and advancing regional modernization.Despite slow progress,several institutional factors exist.The advancement of coordinated development in regional higher education is a complex and contradictory process driven by the interaction of multiple institutional logics.The central government acts with the dual orientation of promoting regional connectivity and cooperation and stimulating local competition,local governments weigh between cooperation and competition with the goal of maximizing local interests,public universities lack the endogenous motivation to engage in regional cooperation due to the centralized higher education governance.To achieve high-quality coordinated development of regional higher education,it is necessary to mainly address local government competition and promoting reforms in government-university relations,innovating governance systems both at the central-local and national-social levels.Some key measures could be explored including incorporating coordinated developmentof regional higher education into the local government performance assessment,optimizing the coordination mechanism of the central government on the regional higher education cooperation of local governments,expanding the autonomy of public universities to enhancetheir regional cooperation space,and supporting the deep participation of social forces in regional higher education cooperation.