CWUC Holds 5th Plenary Session of Board of Directors

The Council of China Women's Universities Consortium (CWUC) opened its fifth plenary session at Xi'an Peihua University on October 20. 

Liu Liqun, president of CWUC and China Women's University (CWU), presided over the event. 

Attendees also included presidents, deputy secretary-generals and directors from eight member universities as well as representatives from relevant departments.

Dr. Jiang Bo, director of the Xi'an Peihua University, addressed this meeting. He congratulated CWUC on its successful organization of this meeting, expressed his warm welcome to the other seven members for visiting the university on its 90th anniversary and introduced the university's history and philosophy of women's education. 

CWUC presidents Luo Ting and Sheng Guojun shared their experiences in education over the past year. Luo is also Party secretary of Hunan Women's University and Sheng is currently president of Shandong Women's University. 

The directors and relevant principals of the consortium exchanged their ideas on the development of universities. 

Zhao Hao, deputy secretary-general of the consortium and member of the standing committee of the Party at CWU, briefed the council on the work of the consortium for the past year in terms of its constant expansion and stable role. He also introduced the important work of CWU in 2018. 

Liu Yuelian, vice president of Xi'an Peihua University, gave an account of the preparation for the Fourth National Symposium on Female College Students' Employment and Entrepreneurship.

Since Xi'an Peihua University was assigned the task of hosting the symposium in November 2016, the council, relevant Party and administrative leaders of the university have paid special attention to this event. 

On the basis of their discussions, they set up a team in charge of the preparation for this symposium. Meanwhile they also actively communicated with the secretariat and members of the consortium to confirm the symposium's important details such as the theme and timings. With these efforts, they laid a solid foundation for the organization of the symposium. 

At the meeting, the theses chosen by the symposium were submitted for examination and review. A Study on Female University Graduates' Business Models Based on Course Teaching: The Success of Beijing Jiuyao Cultural Development Co., Ltd. in Entrepreneurship, a thesis jointly completed by Yu Guangjun and Zhou Zhihui, was awarded first prize. Yu is an associate professor and Zhou serves as Party secretary of the Department of Women's Studies at CWU. The thesis was included in the Journal of Innovation and Enterprise Education and is soon to be published. 

Liu said that under the instruction of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the National Education Conference, each member university of the consortium has made remarkable progress in talent training, scientific research, social service and internationalization. 

She called on consortium members to further explore distinctive ways of developing women's universities and training women talents so as to attract more members, diversify its activities, distinguish its features and strengths and expand cooperation and exchanges. 

Information, experience and ideas were also shared at the meeting, which enabled the consortium to give full play to its role as a link. 

Liu praised Xi'an Peihua University for its long history, unique mission and responsibility in education and long-lasting tradition of women's education. Meanwhile, she wished the university a brighter future. 

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)