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清华大学教育研究[ISSN:1001-4519/CN:11-1610/G4]

卷:

期数:

2017年03期

页码:

4-14

栏目:

教育政策与管理

出版日期:

2017-06-20

文章信息/Info

Title:

Faculty Structure and University Research Performance: Institutional Data Analysis of ARWU Top 100 US Universities

作者:

由由¹ 闵维方¹周慧珺²

1.北京大学 教育学院2.北京大学 光华管理学院

Author(s):

YOU You¹ MIN Wei-fang¹ ZHOU Hui-jun²

Faculty of Education, Beijing University

关键词:

研究型高校、科研产出、影响因素、教师队伍结构、美国

Keywords:

research universities;  research performance;  determinants;  faculty structure;  the United States

分类号:

G644

文献标志码:

A

摘要:

本文基于世界一流大学学术排名数据和46所美国研究型高校10年的面板数据，分析了高校科研产出的影响因素以及高校教师队伍结构变化可能带来的影响。研究发现，高校科研产出除了由外部经济环境、高校类型、人员规模、工资水平等因素决定外，还可能受高校教师队伍的岗位、合同、职称、性别/种族结构的影响。其中，全职教师规模一定的情况下，辅助人员的增加有利于高校科研产出数量与质量的提升，非终身教职体系教师的聘用并未如预期那样有助于提高高校科研产出，助理教授得利于能够在科研上集中精力而产出较高，传统弱势群体教师比例的变化并未系统性地影响高校产出。基于上述研究发现，本文建议我国高校在人事制度改革中需致力于发挥教师资源的比较优势，为教师提供充分的辅助支持，避免造成人力资源的浪费。

Abstract:

This study discusses the educational research in the era of big data. It particularly analyzes the diffe Based on 10-year’s institutional data of 46 US research universities and their ARWU rankings, this paper examines factors that influence university research performance and explores whether universities’ changes in faculty structure have impacts on their research performance. This research finds that, in addition to factors such as external economic environment, institutional control, numbers of faculty and student, and salary, other university’s faculty structures such as faculty’s position, contract type, academic rank, and demographics are also potential determinants to influence university research performance. Specifically, given that full-time faculty numbers are certain, increase in supporting staff is proved to help enhance university research performance in quantity and in quality. However, increase in non-tenure track faculty is not suggested to be necessarily beneficial. In addition, assistant professors have relatively higher research performance, which can be partially attributed to universities’ enabling environments and supports. Finally, no obvious systematic relationship is found between different demographic groups. As a new wave of personnel reform in higher education is going on in China, this paper suggests China’s universities should dedicate efforts to utilizing the comparative advantages of existing faculty resources, providing them sufficient supports, and avoiding wasting human resources. Based on 10-year’s institutional data of 46 US research universities and their ARWU rankings, this paper examines factors that influence university research performance and explores whether universities’ changes in faculty structure have impacts on their research performance. This research finds that, in addition to factors such as external economic environment, institutional control, numbers of faculty and student, and salary, other university’s faculty structures such as faculty’s position, contract type, academic rank, and demographics are also potential determinants to influence university research performance. Specifically, given that full-time faculty numbers are certain, increase in supporting staff is proved to help enhance university research performance in quantity and in quality. However, increase in non-tenure track faculty is not suggested to be necessarily beneficial. In addition, assistant professors have relatively higher research performance, which can be partially attributed to universities’ enabling environments and supports. Finally, no obvious systematic relationship is found between different demographic groups. As a new wave of personnel reform in higher education is going on in China, this paper suggests China’s universities should dedicate efforts to utilizing the comparative advantages of existing faculty resources, providing them sufficient supports, and avoiding wasting human resources. d as a new supplement kind, rather a replacement kind.

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