Quality management is one of the major concerns for the success and development of higher education. This is especially true for China’s private colleges and universities who are still on their way for the prosperity and progress. With the introduction of “sustainability” in education and management scholarship, the concept of sustainable quality management has been deeply integrated with the study and the practice of China’s higher education. By taking the sustainable quality management in ZY University as a case in study, this paper aims to have a detailed analysis and a systematical summary on its specific actions in theoretical exploration and practical development in sustainable quality management. With a focus on its established internal and external mechanisms in terms of quality evaluating, quality monitoring, and information responding, this paper also aims to include a list of quality management issues and challenges that commonly shared by other Chinese private colleges or universities.

Deng Ling. The Sustainable Quality Management in China’s Private Higher Education: Developments and Challenges from ZY University. Frontiers in Educational Research (2023) Vol. 6, Issue 24: 181-190. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2023.062429.

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