Abstract: The efficiency of university governance determines the quality of university governance’s moving towards modernization, and its effectiveness needs to be presented in the bilateral interaction between power and right. China’s university governance shows a trend of changing from power standard to right standard, and the governance effect is remarkable. In power logic, due to the alienation between the fact of elite governance of university power and the value of democratic participation, it is necessary to clarify the power boundary of various actors. In the logic of rights, university governance should effectively protect the rights of stakeholders, and establish this purport as the core mechanism to define and standardize university governance. Based on this understanding, university governance must adhere to meeting the people’s needs for high-quality education, establish the foundation of university governance with the rights of stakeholders, condense the consensus of university governance with the rule of law, create the power of university governance with collective action, and provide the support of university governance with quality culture, so as to establish the cardinal point of university governance modernization and improve the efficiency of university governance.