Associate academicians of science and engineering took over as the head of the "Normal University", many people can't understand it, maybe it's for the National Excellence Program!
According to official information from Guangdong, the people of Guangdong Province recently appointed and dismissed staff members and appointed Yang Zhongmin as the president of South China Normal University for a one-year probationWang Enke was dismissed from his post as president of South China Normal University. This also means that Guangdong's normal 211 university has officially ushered in a change of leadership, but this change of leadership has ushered in some controversies, that is, the new president is not a graduate of a traditional normal college, so he is naturally suspected of being unprofessional!
Wang Enke, the former president of South China Normal University, graduated from Central China Normal University in Wuhan with a bachelor's and master's degree, while Yang Zhongmin, the current president, graduated from Wuhan University of Technology in Wuhan.
On August 31, 2023, the new president, Yang Zhongmin, was selected as a valid candidate for the 2023 co-optation of academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, which is generally called an associate academician in the academic community. Although President Yang did not succeed in being shortlisted as an academician in 2023, he was eligible for re-election in the following years, and the chances of being shortlisted as an academician are extremely high. In terms of this ability, President Yang has the status of a national outstanding young man, plus the status of a quasi-academician, he is fully qualified to take over as the president of South China Normal University, and South China Normal University may even usher in an academician president in a few years.
However, as the head of a normal college, he was born in a science and engineering college, which made many people feel puzzled. In fact, earlier this year, Huazhong Normal University also changed its leadership and recruited tea scholars from Huazhong Agricultural University, so what is the inside story of this?In fact, it is very likely that it is for the National Excellence Program.
The National Excellence Plan was proposed in the summer of 2023, and 30 colleges and universities across the country were shortlisted, and all 6 teachers directly under the Ministry of Education were listed. Each of the 30 selected colleges and universities selects no less than 30 outstanding science and engineering graduates to pursue graduate studies or master's degrees in science and engineering through promotion and exemption every year, and at the same time, the secondary selection is carried out for graduate students in science and engineering, focusing on cultivating a group of high-quality science course teachers at the graduate level for primary and secondary schools.
Although South China Normal University was not selected for this plan, the probability of being selected in the future is very high, and in 2024, it should be expanded in terms of the number of people and the list of pilot institutions, and South China Normal University should naturally take precautions.
At present, there are 9 normal universities in the country, and among the 211 universities that have not entered the Ministry of Education, the main ones are South China Normal University, Hunan Normal University and Nanjing Normal University, plus the double first-class Capital Normal University.
President Yang, who has a science and engineering background, is naturally the best person to deal with this plan.
First of all, although President Yang graduated from Wuhan University of Technology with a bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree, he has been working at South China University of Technology in Guangzhou for a long time, and his resume has basically been spent in Guangzhou. Secondly, President Yang became the vice president of South China Normal University in 2020 and became an associate academician of South China Normal University, so he has different feelings for the school and will naturally do his best to help the development of South China Normal University.
It is worth mentioning that President Yang Zhongmin was born in 1971 and is now just 52 years old, which is the age of youth.