On the afternoon of February 24th, 2011 the plenary session of Undergraduate School of Zhejiang University was held in Room 210 of East Building B. All faculty and staff of Undergraduate School got together to discuss all kinds of work involved in the new semester.
Jin Haiyan, the head of Student Affairs Office emphasized the focus of maintaining stability; Zhong Weimin, secretary of Party General Branch of Faculty and Staff pointed out that activities in the five branches should be organized in a regular and orderly way and young comrades should be developed and educated better; Liu Xiangdong, the head of Teaching Affairs Office gave an introduction of educating and teaching work; Lou Chengfu, the head of Teaching Quality and Resource Management Office gave an elaboration concerning teaching quality management and resource management; He Qinming, deputy dean of Undergraduate School and dean of Chu Kochen Honors College discussed with those present about students education in politics and ideology and students management; Lu Guodong, deputy dean of Undergraduate School, deputy dean of Chu Kochen Honors College and the head of Educational Research Office, attached great importance to work discipline and efficiency and brought forward several priorities.
In the end Chen Jin, deputy dean of Undergraduate School and deputy dean of Chu Kochen Honors College delivered the concluding speech. Taking “Implementing the Planned Platform Honestly and Following the Ten Suggestions Loyally” as the theme, he concluded the session with new expectation. First, the teaching quality of higher education should be improved in order to make China change from being rich in manpower to talent and higher education from providing access to most people to providing high-quality education and the suggestions made in the meeting about education and teaching should be followed earnestly with a lofty sense of historical responsibility. Secondly, the education philosophy should be clarified which meant educating successors with ideals and morals and talents who practicing truth seeking and innovation. Thirdly, a good undergraduate educating and teaching environment should be created with the strengthening interaction between teaching and scientific research in order to promote students’ creativity, entrepreneurship and capability. Fourthly, educating technology should be furthered in order to promote setting up mobile network courses in Zhejiang University. In addition, he expressed his new expectations and hopes to the faculty in Undergraduate School and looked forwards to making joint efforts to make a bright future for Undergraduate School!
