The higher education system from the perspective of academic organization
Burton R. Clark pointed out that higher education system is a kind of academic organization composed of knowledge\|bearing groups; the heart of the higher education system is the crisscrossing matrix of disciplines and enterprises; the coordination of the system is a mix of bureaucratic, political, professional and market forms; changes in the system is the moving matrix. Burton R. Clark's ideas are of methodological significance to China's higher education theory and practice.