On the morning of December 29, the expert opinion exchange meeting on the audit and evaluation of undergraduate education and teaching of Jiangnan University was held in the lecture hall on the fifth floor of the library. More than 170 people attended the meeting, including Zheng Lei, leader of the audit and evaluation expert group of the Ministry of Education, president of Hefei University of Technology, Xu Qing, director of the Higher Education Division of the Provincial Department of Education, Wu Zhengguo, secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangnan University, Chen Wei, president of Jiangnan University, and other members of the school's leadership team, all middle-level cadres, deputy secretaries of secondary party organizations in charge of student work, and vice presidents (deputy directors) of colleges (departments) in charge of teaching work. The meeting was chaired by Zheng Lei.
At the beginning of the meeting, Chen Wei, on behalf of the school, extended a warm welcome and heartfelt thanks to all the experts for their visit and guidance. Chen Wei said that as a key university directly under the Ministry of Education, a key construction university of the national "211 Project" and a "double first-class" construction university, the university has always attached great importance to undergraduate education and teaching and talent training. He pointed out that this audit and evaluation adheres to the problem-oriented, goal-oriented, and effect-oriented, which is not only a comprehensive review of the school's effectiveness in cultivating morality and cultivating people and the quality of undergraduate talent training, but also a strong driving force to promote the school to further deepen the reform of education and teaching and achieve high-quality connotative development. The school will conscientiously study and absorb the guidance of the expert group, continue to strengthen the central position of undergraduate talent training, improve the quality of talent training, and embark on a unique "Jiangnan style" independent training of innovative talents.
At the meeting, Zheng Lei, on behalf of the evaluation expert group, communicated the overall situation of the audit and evaluation to the school. According to the arrangement of the Quality Assessment Center of the Ministry of Education, this audit and evaluation will be carried out in a combination of online and offline methods. Before entering the school, 21 experts conducted a three-week online in-depth investigation, comprehensively reviewed the school's 1+3+3 report and other materials, listened to 50 classes online, investigated 1,931 relevant supporting materials of the school, carried out 73 teacher-student discussions, 168 online interviews, and formed a list of problems for entering the school. During the inspection, the expert group carried out extensive research around the list of problems, exchanged inspection feelings, carried out a total of 7 collective discussions and 21 interviews with teachers and students, visited 22 units, and reviewed 112 relevant materials. On this basis, a collective opinion was formed on the undergraduate education and teaching work of Jiangnan University.
On behalf of the expert group, Zheng Lei exchanged his overall impression and overall opinions on the undergraduate education and teaching work of Jiangnan University.
The expert group unanimously agreed that Jiangnan University has a long history of running a school and a strong cultural accumulation, and after years of development, it has gradually become a high-level university with domestic influence, international reputation and distinctive characteristics. The school adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, adheres to the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, adheres to the strategy of strengthening the school with talents, and takes the construction of a world-renowned, China's first-class, Jiangnan-style research university as its strategic goal, and has embarked on a first-class university construction road of "standing because of lightness, thriving according to lightness, and relying on lightness and strength", and has won the reputation of "the pearl of China's light industry higher education".
The expert group believes that the undergraduate education and teaching of Jiangnan University have six aspects of effectiveness and characteristics. The first is to serve the national strategy, and first-class disciplines lead first-class undergraduate education;The second is to strengthen cultural education, and the "best" quality culture leads undergraduate education and teachingThe third is to implement the establishment of morality and cultivate people, and build a new ecology of educating people through the "great ideological and political".The fourth is to highlight the student center, and promote the development of students with the quality assurance concept of "learning to be perfect".Fifth, strengthen collaborative education and create a multi-dimensional talent training communitySixth, the integration of advantageous resources, connotation development to promote talent training has achieved remarkable results.
The expert group put forward six suggestions for the overall running of the school and the cultivation of talents in the future:
The first is to further improve the connotation construction of the school's first-class undergraduate education system, update the first-class undergraduate education system with school characteristics, and optimize the three-dimensional practical education system. The second is to further enhance the awareness of quality assurance, combine the school's tradition and spiritual and cultural characteristics, and form a quality concept and quality culture connotation with its own characteristics. The third is to further strengthen the top-level design and collaborative implementation of the undergraduate education and teaching system, improve the quality standards, improve the quality assurance institutions and team building, and strengthen the use of teaching evaluation results. Fourth, we should further strengthen the professional structure and teacher allocation, optimize the professional layout and teacher structure, change the idea of introducing intelligence, and strengthen the construction of teacher development centers. Fifth, we will further promote the in-depth integration of information technology and curriculum teaching, increase the construction of high-quality online resources, and promote intelligent teaching and digital teaching. Sixth, we should further coordinate the innovative practical measures of undergraduate education and teaching, strengthen the concept of high-quality development, accelerate the construction of "four new" majors, and give full play to the role of high-level talents in undergraduate education and teaching.
In the process of this evaluation, the expert group also checked the rectification of Jiangnan University in the last round of undergraduate teaching audit and evaluation by the Ministry of Education. The results show that Jiangnan University has continuously improved and implemented the rectification opinions one by one, and the rectification measures are effective and effective.
The members of the expert group and student observers exchanged their opinions on the evaluation and inspection based on their inspection and personal experience during the school. While fully affirming the undergraduate education teaching and talent training work of Jiangnan University, the members of the expert group put forward opinions and suggestions on promoting the digital transformation of education and teaching, teaching evaluation reform, curriculum system optimization, teaching quality assurance system construction, coordinated development of five educations, interdisciplinary integration, and international talent training.
Wu Zhengguo expressed his high respect and heartfelt thanks to all the experts for their hard work and careful guidance. He said that with a solid work attitude, rigorous work style and excellent work ability, the expert group comprehensively and profoundly grasped the teaching situation of the school's undergraduate education, scientifically and rigorously diagnosed the problems existing in the school, and put forward many pertinent and valuable guiding opinions. For the second half of the article on how to do a good job in the evaluation of the school with high quality, he emphasized that the first is to improve the political position and grasp the "must" of establishing morality and cultivating people. The school resolutely adheres to the political direction and adheres to and strengthens the party's overall leadership over the school's workFocus on the service aspect, and closely link the direction of school education and teaching reform with the realistic goals and future direction of China's developmentStrengthen the orientation of educating people, and insist on cultivating socialist builders and people as the foundation of running a school. The second is to focus on key areas and promote the "reality" of problem rectification. Closely focus on the problems and opinions fed back by the expert group, closely follow the changes in the situation such as artificial intelligence, big data reform, digital intelligence in education, and internationalization, promote the benchmarking of educational concepts, promote the reform and innovation of undergraduate teaching, and improve the level of faculty construction. The third is to strengthen the implementation of rectification and ensure the "effectiveness" of audit and evaluation. The school resolutely shoulders the main responsibility, systematically promotes the implementation of rectification, makes good use of the weapon of accountability and accountability, and strives to transform the results of evaluation and rectification into a strong driving force for the implementation of the school's "Endeavor Plan". With the excellent results of education and teaching rectification, we welcomed the convening of the fifth party congress of the school.
During the evaluation period, the expert group inspected the library of Jiangnan University, the school history museum, the food history museum, the wine science and technology museum, the art museum and Qian Shaowu Art Museum, student dormitories, student classrooms, etc., and visited the Wuxi Yimian National Engineering Practice Education Center, the Little Swan Industrial Design Off-campus Teaching Practice Base of Jiangnan University, the National College Student Science and Technology Park of Jiangnan University and other off-campus practice bases. Comprehensive assessment visits.
Hold an expert exchange meeting.
Chen Wei, President of Jiangnan University, delivered a speech.
Zheng Lei, the leader of the expert group, on behalf of the evaluation expert group, exchanged the overall situation of the audit and evaluation to the school.
Wu Zhengguo, Secretary of the Party Committee of Jiangnan University, delivered a speech.
Group photo of school leaders and experts.