Abstract: The modernization of the higher education governance system is the inevitable path for high-quality development and the internal driving force for promoting a powerful country in education. In the digital and intelligent era, the governance logic has shifted in ten dimensions across five aspects, namely value concepts, organizational systems, subject objects, spatial structures, and methods. It also faces practical difficulties such as the supremacy of technological value, an imperfect institutional system, a crisis of subjectivity, technological out-of-control, and data ethics. To promote the modernization of the higher education governance system, we can transcend instrumental values and build a people-oriented value orientation, weed through the old to bring forth the new and establish a scientific and complete institutional system, establish human subjectivity and strengthen the main body's responsibility, improve infrastructure construction and promote technological empowerment, and optimize algorithms and technological governance, and shift from “governance by technology” to “good governance”.

Key words: digital and intelligent era, higher education governance system, modernization, logical turn, promotion path