I Am the President of the University

In the evening, the moon is scarce, on the campus of Stanford University.

The cool breeze is blowing, and the San Francisco Bay Area is still a bit chilly at night.

In the office of the president of Stanford University.

Chen Hao sat on the chair, looking away from the night outside the window.

His gaze fell on an elder in front of him.

The other party is almost ancient, and his hair is all white, but he feels extraordinarily energetic. Wearing a decent suit, he was bowing his head and writing something, and the sound of "swish" rubbing between the pen and the paper was very clear in this quiet office.

"Oh!"

With the pen and the cap closed.

After arranging the table, the elder stood up and said apologetically to Chen Hao, "Chen, I made you wait for a long time."

"No, no, Principal John, coming tonight has already caused you a lot of trouble." Chen Hao got up from the chair and hugged him.

John MacDonald, the current president of Stanford University, is also known as Stanford's greatest president!

John said unhappily, "Hey, Chen, just call me John based on my friendship with your teacher."

The next second after speaking, he smiled like an old urchin and asked, "How is our Stanford coffee better than yours at MIT?"

"Is this a comparison? Of course our MIT coffee is much better!" Chen Hao said with a wry smile, "If I don't say it well, I guess my teacher will start scolding me."

"Hahahaha, that old guy Steven is indeed this kind of person." John laughed and patted Chen Hao on the shoulder, "Chen, don't you mind walking on campus, right?"

"Oh~Who would mind walking with the principal of Stanford, the most popular among students? Isn't it?" Chen Hao said playfully.

"Haha, no wonder you are Stephen's favorite student, and I want to be your teacher." For Chen Hao's American humor, John said it was very useful.

The two left the office and walked around the Stanford campus.

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1. It has not been established since its inception. This is also an important reason why it was not envisaged at the beginning of the establishment but has not been realized so far, which affects the effect of this experiment. The purpose of this experiment was to establish a general education system similar to that of the top American liberal arts colleges, but after more than ten years of operation, this goal was not achieved. You can find many commentary articles on Peking University Yuanpei General Education on the Internet, with mixed reviews. But in a word, this experiment was not successful.

2. Yuanpei College of Peking University focuses on general education, but its current training model is not to offer general education courses by itself, but to adopt a combination of general education methods. Whether this method is good or not remains to be discussed, but at present domestic It is difficult to set up independent general education courses in the educational environment of China. This may be the "experimental failure" mentioned upstairs.

The so-called platter-style general education means that students of Yuanpei College can take all the professional courses in Peking University. Therefore, Yuanpei does not offer general education courses, but students can freely combine professional courses from different departments to achieve general education. The result of education. In the sophomore year, students are divided into majors. Students can freely choose any major in Peking University as their major (of course, the right to change directions and take other professional courses), or choose Yuanpei’s special majors: such as PPE (Politics) , Economics and Philosophy), Foreign Languages ​​and Foreign History, Paleontology, Integrated Science, etc. As the name suggests, these majors combine the relevant courses of various faculties and departments as your compulsory courses.

This century is a banner of undergraduate education and teaching reform. Yuanpei College has been exploring a broad-based and broad-calibre talent training model for 13 years. It is the first batch of domestic colleges and universities to test the waters of general education. The accidents, frustrations, embarrassments and even controversies encountered by "Yuan Pei" in this talent experiment fully reflect the difficulty and pain of general knowledge.

Peking University Yuanpei is the earliest and relatively mature model in the domestic general education reform. Now general education is being rolled out in various universities, but the current results are not particularly good-but at least one step has been taken.

3. According to the talent training plan of Yuanpei College, after enrolling, freshmen can theoretically choose any course offered by the whole school. They can listen to whatever they want. The course study plan is all made by themselves; from the sophomore year, students can follow You can freely choose the direction of study for your own interests, and there is no limit in theory.

"Mental freedom, academic freedom, and learning freedom." After almost all students enter Yuanpei, their first feeling is "freedom", but after that, most people will start to be "lost."

A student who enrolled in 2004 once published an article on the Internet complaining about Yuanpei's "free system." For example, the "tutorial system" that should be responsible for tutoring students to choose courses and majors has limited effect. In fact, the freshmen of Yuanpei's 04 freshmen can't even get a course plan of the department and must go to the academic affairs department of each department. "Look at it."

Compared with these trivial matters, the freedom of course selection has become a bigger obstacle-you can listen to the classes in the whole school, but what exactly do you listen to?

At Peking University, the undergraduate course plan is divided into two parts: professional courses and general elective courses. Generally speaking, professional courses are more difficult than general elective courses. It is envisaged that after any Yuanpei student is in his sophomore year and chooses his own major, the courses of other faculties previously selected can replace the general elective courses, and they can graduate after completing the credits.

For students ~www.novelmtl.com~ regulations such as these are no different from the shackles of "free treatment": choose courses according to their interests, and once the exam results are not satisfactory, they will lose a certain degree of freedom when choosing a major.

Many Yuanpei "comers" have personally experienced the process of compromising to "unfreedom". Zhang Wanting, a student of Yuanpei Law at Peking University Level 03, told reporters that in the first few years of Yuanpei’s implementation, grade points were not a matter of importance. "Most of the students in the 02 and 03 grades choose courses according to their own interests. Difficult classes were a trend at the time.” But since then, the grade point orientation has become more and more important.

The existence of the "Grade Point" standard still keeps students from choosing courses.

Zhou Wenjie was admitted to Yuanpei College in 2008 and is currently the class teacher of Yuanpei College, Peking University. What he observed is that there are fewer and fewer students in the college who choose courses based on a wide range of interests, and many freshmen have a strong plan as soon as they enter the school. For example, in the first semester of the freshman year, the 13th grade freshmen choose courses in economics, management, mathematics, politics, economics, and philosophy.

Xu Chongren explained that the biggest difference between Yuanpei and various faculties is that traditional professional faculties can