Recently, Li Zhi, an associate professor at the School of Engineering of Peking University, wrote an article about his "hurdle" entry into the school and "running in a race" with security guards, which once again caused a heated discussion on the Internet about whether universities should retain the access control system during the epidemic period in the post-epidemic period.
Professor Li believes in his online post that Peking University is relatively free to go out before the epidemic, although it has also begun to enter the door to check documents since 2008, but not everyone is questioned by security guards, as long as it is not a suspicious bad person, they can basically swagger through. Later, due to the emergence of the epidemic, the gate gate of Peking University was installed, and it was strictly implemented, which caused great inconvenience to teachers and students. Security guards at the gate are hard work, but this strict guard is not suitable for universities.
He believed that it was a matter of course for the university to have free access to the university, so he flatly refused to verify the new regulations, so there were many frictions with the security guards at the gate before there was a race against the security guards across the campus fence. ”
As an expert professor, entering his school requires "hurdles" to avoid the curfew, which has caused widespread controversy.
Some people believe that the university is a place to study and engage in scientific research, there is no need to open it to the society, each school and each unit has its own management system, there is no rule and no circle, and the university's strict access control system is also to protect the safety of teachers and students in the school and maintain the normal order of study and life.
However, most people believe that universities are places that people yearn for and belong to social public resources, and most university campuses before the epidemic were open to the society, allowing them to enter and exit relatively freely, and did not affect the normal campus teaching and life order of universities. Now that the epidemic is over, it is time to remove the turnstiles and return to the pre-pandemic state of openness.
On this topic, some experts, scholars and professors also expressed their views through different channels. Recently, Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Education Sciences, said in an interview that the university itself should not be out of touch with society, and the university needs to draw nutrients from the society, and for many citizens, the process of visiting the university and contacting the university itself is also a process of improving national literacy, and the two should complement each other. He also believes that Peking University and Tsinghua University fully have the conditions for opening up, and in the final analysis, it is a matter of management philosophy.
Hu Gang, a professor at the School of Public Administration of Jinan University, believes that colleges and universities occupy a large area and are part of the whole city, and the open campuses of colleges and universities are more conducive to promoting the vitality of the city. Many foreign universities do not even have walls, but are organically connected to the city. An open campus strengthens the ideological connection between the school and society.
Recently, some people also launched a vote on whether to support the opening of universities to the public, and the results showed that the majority of netizens supported the openness.
For this hot topic, this time I support the experts and professors and most of the netizens. I remember when I went to Peking University in 2016, I walked directly into the campus of Peking University with the crowd, no need to make an appointment or register, and the security guards only interrogated people who looked suspicious, and let them register before entering. Similarly, a few years ago, I went to Tsinghua University, Nanjing University, Fudan University, Wuhan University, Zhengda University, Sun Yat-sen University and other colleges and universities, and no one stopped them.
For the vast majority of people who enter colleges and universities, it is just for themselves or their children to come in and feel the atmosphere of a higher education institution, or to listen to the open classes in the university to learn knowledge, or to use the public facilities of the university campus to run and run for fitness. Besides, for people who want to disrupt the campus order, what can you control with your small access control?You must not waste food because of choking, and you will be afraid of the well rope if you are bitten by a snake for ten years.
Whether it is the views of Professor Li of Peking University Hurdles, or the views of Chu Zhaohui and Hu Gang, two experts and scholars, I support and recognize them this time. Peking University, Tsinghua University and other domestic universities should not only resume opening in an orderly manner, but also resume opening in an orderly manner as soon as possible.
Although from the perspective of university administrators, campus closed management is of course the best way to ensure campus safety and order, but this method is actually a lazy management mentality and model, and it also greatly wastes the social value that colleges and universities should play.
I think we can better verify the level and ability of university administrators on how to better play the social role and knowledge dissemination role of colleges and universities while ensuring the order of the campus. Without the level and ability to do so, the president or secretary of a university is basically like a wine bag and a rice bag.