August 5, 2005 (Reporter Guo Weijing Zeng Qinglai) In just three years, a landscape-style university rose rapidly in the hot land of the western part of the motherland: it broke ground in March 2005 and applied for enrollment that year. There are four secondary colleges, namely, economic and technical branch, humanities branch, electromechanical engineering branch and foreign language branch, with 27 majors, involving four disciplines: economy, literature, science and management; 2005? D In two years in 2006, more than 5,400 students were registered. It is estimated that the number of freshmen will exceed 1 10,000 in September this year, with students from more than ten provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country; The development experience of Guangxi City Vocational College provides valuable enlightenment for the construction of higher vocational colleges in Guangxi and even the whole country.
Walking into the campus of Guangxi City Vocational College, a brand-new teaching building came face to face. Dark green glass is spread straight from the first floor to the fifth floor, forming a large mirror of several hundred square meters. The smoke from the east, the sun and the southern forest reflects all kinds of human beings. The "mirror" reflects the dense forest clouds in the distance, making the whole campus more quiet and solemn. Along the campus path, resplendent buildings, wide squares and sports fields can always make people visually shocked: the sculptures of "sheep, cows, horses, tigers and wolves" in the high garden of people, against the backdrop of campus greening and landscaping such as chess and cards and cultural corridors, can not help but remind people of the famous saying of Su Chomsky, a famous educator in the former Soviet Union: "We are trying to make the school walls speak."
This new vocational college, located in the southern part of the motherland, has surpassed the functional combination of educational facilities. She is a "work of art" that combines modern science and technology with traditional culture perfectly, and this "work of art" born in the process of developing the western part of the motherland undoubtedly makes this land known as the "old revolutionary base area" soak in the artistic conception of "old trees meet spring".
Last summer vacation, two 70-year-old people rushed from Guilin to Guangxi City Vocational College to visit their granddaughters who didn't come home during the summer vacation. After entering the campus, the two old people were greatly surprised: "This is obviously a beautiful and unique park! Are we in the wrong place? " These two well-informed old people traveled all over the country and were deeply attracted by this landscape-style campus, staying here for more than a week. In the face of the rapid changes in the college, Huang, a business English major of Grade 05 in the Foreign Languages Department of the college, said: "When I first entered school, the beautiful scenery here let me know what is delicious; With the rise of buildings, I realized for the first time what is the artistic conception of "like a strong wind in spring, blowing at night and blowing open the petals of ten thousand pear trees". The development of the college is really too fast, which can be summarized as "the speed of Shenzhen, the scale of Beijing and the landscape of Dalian". I feel very comfortable, happy and proud to study in such a school. "
Two years ago, Deng Yonglong, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, former director of the Nanning Regional Cultural Bureau and chairman of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, retired to teach in Guangxi City Vocational College. Professor Deng Yonglong has been engaged in the fields of culture, publishing and journalism for decades, and has made great achievements in literary creation, especially poetry creation. Many people don't understand why he came from the bustling capital to teach at the college 28 kilometers away from Nanning International Airport. He said frankly: "For literature and art, it may be easier to accept cutting-edge artistic ideas in a metropolis, but real literature comes from one's heart and from the tranquility and beauty of your environment. Although Guangxi City Vocational College is a young university, it is full of vitality. Not only is the environment beautiful, but the learning environment is also very good. Inner peace can stimulate your own creation. "
For a person who understands the development of Guangxi City Vocational College from a deeper level, what really impresses him is the campus landscape that can be perceived by the senses.
Seeking truth and being pragmatic is the key to brand creation and development.
On March 30th, 2005, Guangxi City Vocational College officially broke ground in Fusui County Science and Education Cultural Park, which is located in the half-hour economic circle from Nanning to Chongzuo, and "Guangxi City Vocational College" officially appeared in China higher education.
When Guangxi City Vocational College was founded, it was the time when China's higher education entered the stage of popularization, and the expansion of higher education in China has been going on for many years. At this time, there are dozens of superior teams in China's higher education. As we all know, it often takes decades or even hundreds of years to form an influential and competitive university. How far can a newly-built university like Guangxi City Vocational College, which is located in a non-provincial capital city of the frontier ethnic autonomous region, go under the severe situation of strong hands? How much room does she have for development? Similar doubts not only haunt people from all walks of life, but also weigh heavily on teachers and students of Guangxi City Vocational College like a stone.
What should Guangxi City Vocational College develop and how to develop it? To answer this question about the overall goal orientation and role orientation, we must be realistic and pragmatic, find out our own personality and comparative advantages on the basis of carefully studying and analyzing the development laws and trends of higher education at home and abroad, and take a distinctive and unconventional road with the spirit of being the first and pioneering.
The leading group of Guangxi City Vocational College has clearly realized that the classification and differentiation of colleges and universities are bound to become more and more obvious with the promotion of popular education and the rapid expansion of higher education institutions under the background of increasing awareness of market economy and increasingly detailed social division of labor. Under such circumstances, each university should have different school-running ideas, university spirit, university system and training objectives. Newly-built higher vocational colleges like Guangxi City Vocational College must not blindly pursue and imitate the school-running goals of traditional public universities. In the past, universities generally attached importance to academic qualifications, neglected ability, and neglected theory and practice, which led to students' professional level failing to meet the required quality, education being seriously out of touch with the market, and students' employment difficulties. In this case, because the hardware and software of a newly-built university are not solidified, there are no problems such as exit cost and path dependence. Therefore, there is every reason to overcome the disadvantages accumulated in the history of traditional universities in the early stage of university construction and development, that is, in the construction and setting of software and hardware, and to better grasp the pulse of the times and better combine the university's school-running concept with the social and economic development trend. Whether we can make full use of this late-developing advantage of newly-built undergraduate colleges is the core key to the success of brand creation of Guangxi City Vocational College.
Characteristics are the explicit connotation and core competitiveness of universities. After several years of teaching practice and situation analysis, the leaders of Guangxi City Vocational College have made such a judgment: the characteristics stem from their own advantages, that is, Guangxi City Vocational College is located in the Zhuang autonomous region with ethnic and cultural advantages, with unique natural scenery and human landscape; Its advantage is that it is a flexible working mechanism for private higher vocational colleges, undergraduate colleges and public colleges; Adjacent to Southeast Asia and South Asia, it has geographical advantages in regional cooperation and the strategic concept of "one axis and two wings" and other countries' opening up. Therefore, the College adheres to the socialist school-running direction, takes Scientific Outlook on Development as the guide, establishes and adheres to the guiding ideology and orientation of "market demand as the guide and ability training as the center", clearly puts forward the requirements of survival based on majors and development beyond majors, strives to improve students' employment competitiveness, stability and development ability, and advocates students to read the society as a textbook while learning professional knowledge, instead of simply reading textbooks as a society. Take the road of sustainable development, such as upgrading connotation, expanding scale and unifying characteristics, and strive to cultivate high-tech applied talents for national and local economic development, which combine the spirit of science and technology with the spirit of humanism and meet the needs of the front line of production, construction, management and service. At the same time, from the first day of school, we will institutionalize and regularize entrepreneurship education, build an elite education platform, create an atmosphere of "wanting to start a business, dare to start a business, and know how to start a business", and guide students to establish the consciousness of "creativity, innovation, creation, entrepreneurship and wealth creation" and plan their future.
In addition, the college insists on the close integration of vocational education with local social politics, economy and culture, and takes "serving local economic construction, agriculture, rural areas and farmers, enterprises and college students to make a living" as its own responsibility, and makes its own modest contribution to building a harmonious society. On April 23rd this year, representatives of teachers and students of the College came to Longzhou County, Guangxi for donation activities, and donated 20 computers, 20 sets of computer desks and chairs and 360 "Meng Congbao" Chinese character learning machines to Dongpu Hope Primary School. Donate computers 14 sets, tables and chairs 14 sets, 2 printers and photocopiers 1 set to Xia Dong Town Agricultural Information Center; Donate 6 computers and 6 sets of desks and chairs to Xia Dong Middle School. This has strengthened the facilities of local informatization construction, played a very positive role in promoting the development of agricultural information resources in Longzhou County, developing rural informatization construction, narrowing the "digital gap" between urban and rural areas, and creating a fair information society, which will be conducive to further understanding and mastering the information and market dynamics of local agriculture and agricultural special products, and promoting the development of local agriculture and new rural economy.
Infrastructure comes first, and two major projects are set up.
Campus facilities are the material carriers of school ideas, teaching and culture. Campus construction is an important part of school development planning and overall construction. Campus construction not only reflects the concept and orientation of a school, but also exerts a subtle educational effect on students with its unique intuition and permeability.
In order to achieve the goal of talent training, the infrastructure construction of Guangxi City Vocational College is based on the development goal of the Ministry of Education in the next 20 years, with high specifications and a high starting point, close to the forefront of scientific development, and in strict accordance with the planning principle of "high starting point, foresight and scientificity", and the best planning and design units in China, such as South China University of Technology, are invited to make scientific planning on the campus and participate in the bidding of the plan. The design scheme is required to be atmospheric, first-class, full of individual characteristics, coordinated with the unique karst landform and natural landscape in the south, reflecting modern flavor, southern customs and national characteristics, novel and beautiful, with cultural connotation and pursuing high grade. At the same time, we should devote ourselves to the construction of teaching software and hardware, and promote the modernization of teaching methods with the help of the advantages of information technology.
At present, the total construction area of the hospital is about 13 1250 square meters. Two teaching buildings, 14 student apartment buildings, two comprehensive living service buildings, two libraries, 1 modern experimental building, student canteen, administrative office building, college students' pioneer park and staff dormitory have been built. 1 The comprehensive teaching building and staff dormitory are under intense construction. The modern laboratory building has dozens of laboratories such as computer network center, multimedia language laboratory, electronic laboratory and broadband access radio and television station. 27 multimedia classrooms and 16 computer rooms have been built, and more than 1 100 Lenovo brand computers have been assembled. The campus network project with an investment of 10 million yuan has been put into use. The modern library covering an area of more than 7,000 square meters with an investment of 10 million yuan has been put into full use. College supermarkets, hospitals, self-service laundry rooms, IT shops, mail rooms and other life service facilities are complete, and student apartments are equipped with independent bathrooms, solar water heaters, direct dial telephones and computer broadband. Student apartments are strictly managed according to standards, and campus security guards are on duty 24 hours a day, striving to create an elegant, convenient, safe and comfortable learning and living environment.
Campus greening and beautification * * * invested more than 2 million yuan, planted more than 4,000 trees and more than 200,000 shrubs such as banyan, jackfruit, magnolia and camellia, covering an area of about 48,000 square meters, paved 32,000 square meters of school roads, and built landscapes with profound humanistic connotations, such as a high garden for people, a chess club for life, a writing altar and a small garden of acacia forest.
Guangxi City Vocational College also pays attention to students' physical exercise. 1 lawn football field, 1 basketball court, 6 volleyball courts, 1 fitness square,1standard track and field, and 8 badminton courts have been built, ensuring the normal development of sports activities in colleges and universities. In addition, the hospital is still preparing for the establishment of sports venues such as table tennis courts.
Vice President Qin, who is in charge of infrastructure construction, has a lot of feelings when talking about campus infrastructure construction. It is a great challenge for the college to complete the first phase of the project in less than half a year. In order to ensure the efficient operation of the whole construction work, the college has formulated a relatively perfect infrastructure system and set up a special infrastructure department to listen to the infrastructure work report regularly and give timely guidance and coordination to solve the difficulties and problems existing in the construction. At the beginning of the project construction, the college leaders and teachers came to power in person, leaving early and returning late, which was hard work. Despite being totally humiliated all day, everyone has no complaints. Since March 2005, they have entered this place, digging the foundation, cutting shrubs, repairing ditches, paving roads ... even hundreds of thousands of flowers and trees are planted by employees themselves. Some flowers and trees have to work overtime all night. There are many mosquitoes in the rainy season, which is stuffy and hot. Many employees are tired and hungry in the early hours of the morning, so regardless of the mud in the wetland, some fall asleep. When they saw the dawn, their white trousers turned into yellow mud. ...
In September 2005, it took less than half a year to complete the first-phase construction task with high quality and efficiency. Building No.1, the square in front of the school gate, the library building, the canteen, the administrative office building, the football field, the student apartments, the staff apartments and other buildings have mushroomed in more than half a year. A new landscape campus with a sense of the times was built and put into use before the first batch of students started school.
Guangxi City Vocational College, with its high-starting planning and high-quality cultural connotation, has been repeatedly evaluated as the most distinctive university campus with pleasant living conditions by the leaders and guests who came to visit and guide the school. Indeed, the whole building complex of Guangxi City Vocational College has gained a higher artistic conception of architectural life, which echoes with the southern border minority areas of China and is in harmony with the natural landscape of karst landforms, becoming the most beautiful scenery of the school.
On June 16, 2006, three guests from all over the United States visited Guangxi City Vocational College with great interest, praising the beautiful scenery and unique school-running concept of the college, taking photos while walking, and they were reluctant to leave for a long time. One of the guests said emotionally, "Guangxi City Vocational College is not shooting a perfect scene, so I want to stay and study here. If I live in China, I will definitely send my children to Guangxi City Vocational College to study! "
The rapid progress of infrastructure construction has laid a solid foundation for the implementation of the two major projects: teaching construction and talent construction. Specialty construction and reform is the core of education and teaching in higher vocational colleges, the foundation and key link to improve teaching quality, develop characteristics and cultivate high-quality applied talents, and the concrete embodiment of a higher vocational college's guiding ideology, school-running concept, school-running orientation and school-running characteristics. In the development of new majors and the adjustment of professional structure, Guangxi City Vocational College has made a detailed analysis of the reform trend and construction direction of the same major and the same course at home and abroad. On the basis of extensive comparative study of educational programs, it has earnestly solicited the opinions of teachers and students, employers and related industries, and repeatedly revised and improved the talent training program to meet the individual requirements of students. In terms of talent project construction, Guangxi City Vocational College regards the construction of teaching staff as the top priority of its school work. While strengthening the training and further study of existing talents, we should actively create conditions to introduce talents with high academic qualifications, high professional titles and high level. At present, the college has established a team of full-time and part-time teachers with reasonable structure, noble morality, high professional level and modern teaching methods and means. The "double-qualified" teachers are the academic leaders, and young academic leaders in Zhejiang universities, professors from the School of Mathematics and Science of Zhejiang Normal University and Dr. Zhou from Zhejiang University are employed as the dean. There are more than 380 faculty members, including 74 teachers with senior titles above professors and associate professors and 43 lecturers. In addition, the college has established correspondence stations with many well-known universities in China, such as Zhejiang Normal University, Sichuan Normal University and Ningbo University, and achieved long-term cooperative relations among teachers within the scope of cooperation. The main courses will be taught by senior professors from these institutions.
Educational Reform, New Road, Cultural Industry and Leaping Development
Guangxi City Vocational College was established just two years ago, and its fruitful achievements and rapid development momentum are amazing. Since the school was founded in March 2005, it took only half a year to complete the campus infrastructure construction with a building area of more than 50,000 square meters, and enrolled 1.200 students that year. By August of the second year of its establishment, the second phase of the project had been successfully completed on 1 1 month, with a total construction area of 65,438+10,000 square meters and more than 5,400 students in 2006. As of April 2007, the total construction area of the college has increased to 6.5438+0.3 million square meters in eight months, and it is expected that the number of students will exceed 1 10,000 this year. At the same time, in the past three years' efforts, the college has launched activities such as college students' pioneer park, professional ability practice, strange stone cultural center and international cartoon contest in the whole region, which has opened up new development fields for the college to carry out characteristic education.
Guangxi City Vocational College advocates that students should read the society as a textbook while learning professional knowledge well, instead of simply reading textbooks as a society, and this concept permeates all aspects of teaching and management. To this end, the college actively carries out vocational ability practice activities, actively explores new teaching models, and boldly reforms and innovates. On the premise of ensuring the completion of three-year teaching tasks in higher vocational colleges, sophomores organized students to carry out two to three months of professional ability practice activities in enterprises with high degree of modernization in developed areas last semester. Realization theory? d？ D practice? d？ D theory again? d？ The teaching process of practice again. The college clearly puts forward that it should be based on professional learning, jump out of the survival requirements of professional learning development, and strive to improve students' employment competitiveness, stability and development ability.
College students' pioneer park is the carrier of college students' entrepreneurship, the base for cultivating their entrepreneurship and employability, the platform for college students' entrepreneurship and the pilot guidance for college students' entrepreneurship. The Pioneer Park consists of four functional departments: Social Practice Department, Work-study Program Department, Vocational Training Department and Self-operated Department. The completion and use of the Pioneer Park building provides a place for students to carry out entrepreneurial activities. In the past three years, Guangxi City Vocational College has been exploring the capital structure, management mode and industrial mode of characteristic entrepreneurial bases, optimizing the service environment, and striving to create an atmosphere of "wanting to start a business, daring to start a business and knowing how to start a business" so that students can establish the consciousness of "creativity, innovation, creation, entrepreneurship and wealth creation".
Since its establishment, Pioneer Park has institutionalized, daily and humanized entrepreneurship education by organizing entrepreneurship design competitions, internships in different places, setting up entrepreneurship training courses and holding entrepreneurship lectures, and built an elite education platform, which provides a broad platform for college students to start businesses and occupy the big market. In 2006, with the joint efforts of teachers and students, the College Students Pioneer Park made a profit of RMB 3159,000, benefiting more than students 1000.
China tea culture has a long history and enjoys a high reputation overseas. Our people have always had the habit of "serving guests with tea", which fully embodies the civility and courtesy of our Chinese nation. On the afternoon of June 65438+1October 65438+April this year, under the leadership of the college, more than 40 teachers and students of Guangxi City Vocational College were lucky enough to come to Longzhou County and visit the famous tea factory in the experimental station of Guangxi Subtropical Crops Research Institute. On the bus back to the college, Dean Ning Dejun gave a wonderful lesson to the teachers and students. He said: "How far a person's mind is, how far he can go;" How rich a person's thoughts are, how wonderful they can be ... "This not only adds a lot of fun to the journey, but also purifies the hearts of students and sublimates their feelings. When talking about the development of culture, Dean Ning said: "Life should have a grateful heart, and a grateful heart is actually a heart of development. Longzhou is a place with rich cultural background. Today, we came here and were received by the deputy secretary of the county party Committee. This is a culture in itself. We should learn from the people in the old revolutionary areas and learn to be grateful ... "Tea tasting is a state of mind. Be quiet, be quiet, be quiet, whisper, laugh, be diligent in teaching, and dive deep into your heart.
In addition to tea culture, Guangxi City Vocational College also vigorously promotes the strange stone culture. On June 15 this year, the Kistler Cultural Center and the Cultural Industry Student Training Base of Guangxi City Vocational College were officially unveiled. Leaders and guests such as Lan, Chairman of the Autonomous Region Federation of Literary and Art Circles, and Chairman of the Chongzuo CPPCC attended the unveiling ceremony. Fujian Chamber of Commerce, Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce and Guangdong Chamber of Commerce also sent flower baskets to congratulate them. It is understood that the museum covers an area of 1.200 square meters, and nearly a thousand strange stones are exhibited in the museum. Its pattern is divided into large exhibition halls and boutique houses. Strange stones include big fossils, washed stones, Gobi stones, Wujiang stones, Changjiang stones, the source of the Yellow River, Lingbi stones and wood fossils. It brings together the essence of different regions and the whole country. The macro layout and the display of strange stones in the museum are the crystallization of the wisdom of students and leaders in the museum. Many strange stones on display are named, commented and expressed by students. As a special cultural industry, Kistler faces the market and the world. This is the economic and cultural industry run by the college. Through the "hand of the market", the campus cultural resources are truly transformed into economic resources.
Guangxi City Vocational College not only inherits the traditional national culture of China, but also incorporates new ideas, combining tea culture with college students' knowledge expansion and cultural accomplishment. Closely link the strange stone culture with college students' practice, entrepreneurship and employment. The introduction of strange stone culture has become a wonderful flower of campus culture in Guangxi City Vocational College, which has promoted the passionate collision between campus culture and social economy. This is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the hospital cultural industry.
At the same time, Guangxi City Vocational College seized the historical opportunity of the Greater Mekong Subregion cooperation and the cooperation between China and ASEAN "10+ 1", and carried out extensive and in-depth exchanges and cooperation with universities and educational institutions all over the world, especially in Southeast Asia, in the spirit of "integrating universal culture and casting university spirit". At present, the college has begun to implement the enrollment plan of "transnational talents" training, and cooperated with many famous universities in Southeast Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei to hold "transnational talents" training projects to help aspiring young people become international talents in an economical and effective way.
Looking back, people have every reason to believe that Guangxi City Vocational College has laid a solid foundation and achieved fruitful results since its establishment? d？ This university is full of great vitality and creativity because of its youth. Looking forward to the future, she will write a brilliant chapter with epoch-making significance with a beautiful attitude.