Replace the college with the "hub" and "school domain". Where is the reform of this college reform?丨 Time Comment

Author:Yangcheng Evening News Yangche Time:2022.09.03

Text/Xiong Bingqi

After 3 years of construction, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), a new university in the Guangdong -Hong Kong -Macao Greater Bay Area, officially started on September 1. This university breaks the distinction of traditional colleges and universities, and has the first academic structure of "hubs" and "seral domains", which will explore the road for the reform of higher education in the world.

According to reports, the school has four "hubs", covering 15 "sectarian domains". Ni Mingxuan, the principal of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), said that the challenges encountered by human society are not solved by a single discipline, and the importance of cross -disciplinary cross -section is increasingly obvious. Under the traditional academic architecture, there are too many rules and frames, which affects the effectiveness of cross -cooperation in disciplines. "The academic architecture of the traditional 'college' and the‘ Studies ”academic structure with 'hubs' and‘ field ”can promote cross -integrated discipline and promote the development of emerging disciplines and cutting -edge disciplines. This is a pioneering in the global higher education community."

The school architecture design of the "hub" and "sectarian domain" is indeed brand new for a college. But this is just literal innovation or substantive innovation, and further observation is needed. If in the eyes of teachers and students, the "hub" is actually "college", and the "sectarian" is "academic department", which is just a literal change. Only by advancing the cross -integration of the real meaning and giving the "hub" and "sectarian domain" beyond the connotation of the department, this exploration is meaningful.

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This is the same as the construction of new arts, new engineering, new agricultural sciences, and new medical sciences that have been promoted by domestic universities in recent years, as well as according to professional enrollment. Where is the new liberal arts and new engineering sciences? What are the differences from traditional liberal arts and engineering sciences? If there is only the "new" method, but there is no "new" essence, it is "new bottle of old wine". New liberal arts and new engineering are different from traditional liberal arts and engineering, which is to promote cross -integration of disciplines and promote the development of emerging disciplines. From the perspective of the specific running reality of colleges and universities, there are not many substantial innovation in discipline construction.

Promoting the intersection of disciplines is the direction of running a school in colleges and universities. However, in general, when the interdisciplinary integration of disciplines is promoted, there is a problem of promoting the interdisciplinary cross -disciplinary integration with administrative forces, while the autonomy of the college and the enthusiasm of teachers are not enough. This also makes the interdisciplinary cross -fusion mostly floating on the surface. There are two reasons for this: First, the traditional architecture of the department, the development and evaluation and evaluation of the teachers are mainly based on the departments, which also leads to their respective departments. For example, according to media reports, in order to promote the cross -disciplinary cross -disciplinary and the integration of production and research, the state has launched cooperation projects for cross -school, research institute, discipline, and enterprises. Tongde and the project will help each other at the same time. After obtaining the project, the same bed dreams. When the benefits are allocated, the same room will be fucking, and the "five same phenomena" that will be accompanied by the same time ".

The second is that both the department and the teachers lack autonomy. Education and academic resources allocation, educational affairs and academic affairs are led by the administrative department, including setting up majors, and the professor of the department also lacks the right to speak. This has led to the professor to conduct education and teaching and conduct academic research. Evaluation and evaluation. Evaluation issues such as "thesis", "only hat", "only project", and "only awards" in Chinese universities have affected college teachers to use their energy in real education and academic research.

In -depth promotion of cross -integration of disciplines with high levels of substantial high levels requires direct real problems. The key is to establish a modern university system. For a newly -built university, it is easy to break the traditional college architecture, but more importantly, it is necessary to establish a new school governance structure. For the "hub", to play the central role of the "hub", it must give the "hub" full autonomy. At the same time, in order to allow teachers in each "seral domain" to fully exert their talents, it is necessary to give teachers' autonomy of education, teaching, and academic research. How to operate "hub" and "school domain" is worthy of attention. In fact, as long as the modern university system is established, it is not necessary to break the architecture of the traditional college, and it can also face the cutting -edge fusion of the discipline. Professors who pursue high -quality education and academic research will closely track the development of disciplines in accordance with the school's running positioning and school conditions and running conditions, and carry out discipline construction, and explore the talent training model that adapts to the new era. In other words, the modern university system is the design of the basic system. Based on this, it is truly pioneering by establishing a new architecture system with the "hub" and "sectarian" to build a new architecture system.

Therefore, it is not important to be called "hub" and "hub" or "college" and "academic department". The key depends on the operating mechanism within the school. Managed. In the era of popularization of higher education, the purpose of new universities in my country is not only to increase a university and expand higher education resources. Instead, it is necessary to explore and promote higher education reforms to improve the competitiveness of higher education in my country as a whole. The whole society must support the reform and innovation of the school.

(The author is a well -known educator)

(Yangcheng Evening News, submitted mailbox: [email protected])

Source | Yangcheng Evening News • Yangcheng School

Responsible editor | Fu Mingtu Wang Jiejie

School pair | Pan Liling

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