CWU Holds Symposium on Student Affairs

China Women's University (CWU) held a symposium on student affairs recently in order to comprehensively summarize its work in 2016. 

Liu Qinghua, deputy secretary of CWU Party Committee and secretary of Discipline Inspection Committee, participated in the event and delivered an opening speech.

Members of CWU's Student Affairs Committee, secretaries of General Party Branches from different schools and departments and all counsellors attended the event, which was presided over by Han Yan, director of the university's Student Affairs Office.

Based on concrete data and diagrams, Han analyzed CWU students' developing status in 2016, including ideological education, capacity building, physical and psychological education, national defence education and learning style construction.

Directors from different schools and functional departments introduced the basic situation of their distinctive majors, working theories, frameworks and primary focus respectively. 

Organizers listened to the reports carefully, solicited opinions and deployed plans for specific work in the new term.

While fully affirming the efforts and achievements made by all departments, Liu put forward several requirements and hopes towards student affairs.

Firstly, combining correct ideas with students' internal needs, developing students' Party spirit and encouraging them to pursue goodness, inner beauty and to be positive was highlighted.

Secondly, Liu emphasized the aim of talent cultivation, including organically combining student affairs with those of teaching and integrating the former into professional education.

Thirdly, he asked staff to incorporate evaluation work into student management and incorporate capacity building into ideological and political development. 

In addition, teachers should guide students to set up positive values on life and society, stimulate students' interest in study and cultivate creative thinking. Besides, teachers should improve their own teaching qualities and learn from other experienced educators.

Moreover, teaching staff should implant assessment requirements of undergraduate education into the daily curriculum. Liu hoped that relevant teachers could take risks to innovate, highlight the features of CWU and work together to build it into a top women's university. 

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Gender Study Network)