On March 10, the School of Journalism and Communication convened a meeting for all faculty members at Xiushan Hall to deploy annual work priorities and arrange tasks for the undergraduate education and teaching evaluation.
Ma Changhong, Secretary of the School's Party Committee, conveyed the key points of President Chen Yulu's speech at the university's 2025 work deployment meeting. She noted that 2024 marked a significant milestone in China's educational development and a convergence of multiple pivotal events in NKU's development history, with all undertakings achieving new progress. Facing a series of new national higher education directives, requirements, and missions, in 2025, the university will consolidate routine priorities while centering on the Six Three-initiatives as its core tasks to accelerate the realization of the first-year key goals set in the three-year action plan for building China into a strong education powerhouse. Ma Changhong emphasized that the School should accurately grasp the university's key work priorities, thoroughly implement relevant requirements, and go all out to contribute to NKU's development. Aligning with the university's directives, in 2025, the School will leverage key tasks, including the upcoming inspection by the university's Party Committee, undergraduate education and teaching evaluation, and national audit, as opportunities to systematically review experiences, identify problems, address shortcomings, and enhance its core competitiveness and comprehensive strength. As 2025 is designated as the School's Undergraduate Education and Teaching Quality Enhancement Year, the School will adopt multiple measures to effectively enhance the quality of talent cultivation. Concurrently, the School will focus on various tasks including talent recruitment and development, discipline construction, joint establishment of the journalism school with the Publicity Department of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee and other entities, joint establishment of publishing research institute with the Publicity Department of the CPC Tianjin Municipal Committee, and targeted cultivation of talents for winning various awards. Additionally, the School will also focus on grassroots Party organization construction and cultural development to deepen the integration of Party building work with the school's development, fostering a vibrant and positive academic culture.
Chen Na, Vice Dean of the School, comprehensively interpreted the connotations, core principles, and guiding requirements of the new round of undergraduate education and teaching evaluation. She also elaborated on the School's task list and work arrangements for preparing for and promoting the evaluation in alignment with the core concept of the NKU System 3.0 for Cultivating Outstanding Talents with Public Morality and Professional Ability. She particularly underscored the significance of the new round of undergraduate education and teaching evaluation. Based on the School's existing resources and development direction, she proposed leveraging the evaluation as an opportunity to explore a tripartite approach of ideological anchoring, interdisciplinary integration, and practice-oriented cultivation, striving to explore a path for cultivating high-quality all-media talents guided by the Marxist view of journalism and publishing under the perspective of new liberal arts. Going forward, the School will strengthen education on the Marxist view of journalism and publishing, promote interdisciplinary integration, and enhance practice-oriented teaching. The entire School will work in unison to construct an undergraduate teaching system in journalism and communication with NKU characteristics, opening up a new chapter in enhancing the School's undergraduate education and teaching quality.
At the meeting, Xu Zhijiang, Academic Secretary of the School, delivered a specialized training session on Teaching Archives Management and Revision Requirements, providing itemized explanations of the requirements for undergraduate teaching archives management, revision of syllabi and training programs, and standard operating procedures for examination grading and assessment archiving, in accordance with relevant guidelines.
Following the meeting, Chen Na delivered the School's first faculty teaching skills training session in 2025 titled Shifting from a Teaching-Centered to a Learning-Centered Approach.
