Abstract: Secondtier academic governance within higher education institutions integrates efficiencyoriented administrative regulations and value norms based on legitimacy recognition, therefore the administrative regulation and value recognition jointly reveal the complexity of the construction of secondtier academic governance within universities. At the levels of value orientation, functional logic, and organizational forms, the balance between efficiency and legitimacy, rationality and suitability, and the value tensions that may be legal but not necessarily effective, are explored. In terms of administrative regulation, it focuses on the administrative control and bureaucratic reinforcement, the game between centralization and decentralization, and the positioning of organizational roles and positions; regarding value recognition, it emphasizes academic affiliation and relational systems, value function and meaning construction, and multiple standards as well as complex expectations. To promote the transformation from regulation to recognition in secondtier academic governance, the unification of instrumental rationality and value rationality should be sought, rights and responsibilities should be optimized, and appropriate logic should be maintained, thus facilitating the effective linkage between regulation and recognition.

Key words: secondtier academic governance in universities; administrative regulation; value recognition; institutional construction