发展院校研究 建立高校决策支持系统
Advancing University Research and Building University Decision Supporting System

决策支持系统是决策体系的重要组成部分。高校自身 的特点决定了其决策支持系统具有特殊的重要性。调查发 现，我国高校没有决策支持系统，或决策支持系统不健全，是 实现科学决策的一个突出问题。院校研究的核心职能是通过 收集与分析数据，为决策过程提供支持。为此，应在高教研 究机构和发展规划处的基础上建立院校研究机构，大力发展 院校研究。教育部门应重视和支持院校研究，使之成为高校 决策体系中的决策支持系统；要加速国家教育数据库建设， 并向院校研究人员开放；要进行新的人事制度设计，改革相 应的考核晋升机制，完善相关制度。
Decision support system is an important part of decision making system. Decision support system of colleges and universities is uniquely important because of the special features of colleges and universities. Firstly, since the management, operation, and assessment are accomplished by different parties in higher education, universities enjoy a high level of autonomy. Therefore, they should address many crucial problems independently. Secondly, universities have to make the decisions considering their distinct characteristics. For example, universities should make relevant decisions to create suitable conditions to ensure freedom. Universities need to make three different types of decisions, namely academic, administrative and comprehensive decisions. Universities are likely to make decisions that go against their essential objectives or to vacillate between alternative strategies. As a result, the decision-making process is usually complex. In recent years, especially from May 2014 to May 2015, researchers from the Institutional Development Research Center of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, conducted a series of investigations, using various methods (including questionnaires, interview and inquires). Researchers made a thorough and comprehensive survey on a national level, covering 878 colleges and universities. According to the survey, the fact that there is no or not good decision support system is a notorious barrier to scientific decision making processes. The decision support system is mainly comprised of three parts, namely, data and database system, knowledge and technology, staff and organizations. As for the data and database system, although several progresses have been made, there are still many unsolved issues. Besides, the relevant knowledge and theories are scattered, lacking sufficient innovations. The most important part, staff and organizations, also lack competent skills and thus cannot meet the requirements. The relevant organizations are mainly institutions of higher education research and office of strategic planning. As for institutions of higher education research, among the 878 colleges and universities, 514 have established institutions of higher education research, representing 59%. The total number of researchers is 4578, of whom there are 2311