Issues with Innovative Humanity Programs: Possible Solutions for Initiating Them at Applied Higher Education Institutions
Tsai-Fa Yen *
Department of Marketing, Research Center for the Integration and Development of Teaching and Research to Innovative Humanity, Research Center for Cooperation and Innovation of Brand Culture and Trade Service, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangdong Province, China.
Xiaoqin Yu
Department of Marketing, Research Center for the Integration and Development of Teaching and Research to Innovative Humanity, Research Center for Cooperation and Innovation of Brand Culture and Trade Service, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangdong Province, China.
Jiawei Shao
Department of Marketing, Research Center for the Integration and Development of Teaching and Research to Innovative Humanity, Research Center for Cooperation and Innovation of Brand Culture and Trade Service, Guangzhou College of Technology and Business, Guangdong Province, China.
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Abstract
The study deals with the issues with innovative humanity programs and tries to draw some possible solutions for initiating them at applied higher education institutions. It focuses on the problems while the construction and development of a department needs to transform itself from traditional operation type to innovative ones. Our study employees the literature review method to analyze the construction of applied higher education institution. Findings show that the talent training program, the evaluation system, and the organizational pattern would be the current problems applied higher education institutions met. Furthermore, the study indicates that the goals of the construction to the department, the evaluation system, and the development of the teachers are the possible solutions to the problems. Specifically, the managers of the applied higher education institutions should focus more on the integration and utilization of the resources, including cross-department, cross-school, cross-industry, integration, and collaborative development mechanism is recommended.
Keywords: Innovative humanity, department construction, applied higher education institution