University presidents are the core subjects of modern university governance, and the creation of a new discipline system based on the practical experience and internal laws of university presidents is a theoretical and practical necessity to focus on the new situation, new phenomena and new requirements in the process of building a Chinese-style modern educational power, and to carry out discipline innovation in higher education. The establishment of university presidentship has a profound foundation of practical development and theoretical exploration, and the theory of university president has the theoretical framework of “1+1+3”, which is a systematic response to the fundamental question of “who can become a university president, what kind of university president develops, and how can a university president develop a university” on the basis of analyzing the practical foundation, theoretical foundation and discipline creation of university president. The formation and development of the theoretical system of university presidentship is the product of the complementarity and synergy between theoretical innovation and the practice of action.