Innovation in the Integrated “Job, Course, Competition, and Certificate” Academic Affairs Management Model in Technical Colleges

Abstract

Four elements (i.e., job, course, competition, certificate) within the talent cultivation system of technical colleges have close relations but they traditionally operate separate-line academic affairs management belonging to different functional modules that manage them independently which makes it hard for the traditional model to cope with the increasingly complicated interactions between the four. From analyzing the internal logic of the integration of the four elements, we analyzed multiple motivations for reforming the traditional management model by building an integrated academic affairs management model based on a four-dimensional framework including goal synergy, resource integration, process linkage, and evaluation connectivity. We designed an operational plan at the operational level such as a competency-progressive course–job alignment path, a flexible scheduling mechanism from the perspective of competition–training integration, and a three-stage evaluation chain oriented towards course–certificate integration. An operational support system built from three dimensions includes information platform, institutional system, and effectiveness evaluation. This model changes the organizational logic of academic affairs management from managing each segment separately into systematic coordination, offering an actionable path framework for improving the effectiveness of multi-element collaboration management for technical colleges.