Author(s)

Chen Ming

Corresponding Author

Chen Ming

ABSTRACT

Western developed countries entered the stage of popularization of higher education in the 1960s and 1980s. They also experienced the confusion and new value judgment we are facing today. During this period, they constantly tried to reform, in this series of reforms, the western countries have some common points that pay more attention to the development of science and technology, through the reform of higher education to train a group of senior technicians, to the development of high and new technology has contributed greatly. Through studying the reform of applied professional education in western countries during this period, it is found that it is more appropriate to consider the value system of constructing the applied technical university with its own characteristics from the three bases of establishing the legitimacy of Modern University proposed by Burton Clark.

KEYWORDS

The second half of the twentieth Century, Western higher education, The legitimacy of modern universities, Applied Technology University