Abstract: Professional development of teachers in colleges and universities matters a lot for their higher professional accomplishments, better qualities in students' training and sustainable development in higher education. As a systematic program, it involves several benefit-related subjects, such as teachers, institutions of higher learning, governments, enterprises and families, so collective efforts made by the above stakeholders is necessary to promote professional development of teachers in colleges and universities. In terms of the construction of multiple support system for professional development in colleges and universities in ethnic areas , on the one hand, teachers, institutions of higher learning, enterprises, governments and families, all these subjects should be guided to give full play to their functions; On the other hand, coordination among the relevant subjects should be strengthened, making support system for professional development of teachers in colleges and universities form an organized whole, which will eventually provide multi-level and multi-aspect support for that in ethnic areas.

Key words: Stakeholder Theory, ethnic areas , teachers in colleges and universities, professional development, support system