"New Liberal Arts" construction empower high -quality development of think tanks in colleges and universities

On April 29, 2019, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Finance, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other departments jointly organized the "Six Excellence and One Top" Plan 2.0 to launch the conference in Tianjin, marking the national level of new engineering, new medical sciences, and new agriculture sciences at the national level The construction of new liberal arts was officially launched. On November 3, 2020, relevant universities and experts across the country gathered in Shandong to discuss the development of liberal arts education in the new era, and jointly released the "New Liberal Arts Construction Declaration". In February 2021, the Ministry of Education issued the key points of the 2021 work, and proposed to further promote the "four new" construction, including the new liberal arts. In July 2022, the Ministry of Education's Higher Education and Shandong Provincial Department of Education, sponsored by Shandong University, the "New Liberal Arts Construction Summit 2022" organized by the National New Literary and Art Education Research Center and Qingdao University, and focused on promoting the construction of new liberal arts and sciences. Implement, deepen, and break through. In just a few years, from the concept to action, the new liberal arts have a wide influence on the development of the liberal arts of Chinese universities and the social development of Chinese universities. The "New Liberal Arts" focuses on the connection of social needs, emphasizing the cross -integration of disciplines, and highlighting the evaluation of social contribution ability, etc., which is highly consistent with the connotation and principles of colleges and universities think tanks. We should take the construction of new liberal arts as an opportunity to pay attention to the connotation of disciplines and empower the high -quality development of the think tanks of colleges and universities.

Docking social needs

In the past, some colleges and universities transmitted ready -made, boring, and rigid knowledge and ideas, which were disconnected from national, social needs and practice. British philosopher Alfred North Whitehead refers to this kind of knowledge and thoughts that break away from practice and no vitality as "inert knowledge" and "sluggish thoughts", and emphasize that "cannot allow knowledge Rigid, and let it make it lively -this is the core issue of all education. " The "New Liberal Arts Construction Declaration" proposes that "the great practice of reform and opening up in the new era and the modernization of socialist modernization is the fertile soil that deeply cultivates new liberal arts" "Promoting the construction of new liberal arts. Establish new theories, strengthen system summary of practical experience, form a theoretical system, subject system, and teaching system of liberal arts education with Chinese characteristics, and serve the new round of reform and opening up and socialist modernization. " One of the prominent features of Xin Liberal arts is to focus on the training of ability, adhere to the problem orientation of problem and demand, and cultivate students and researchers in the process of connecting state and social needs and solving economic and social practice issues. Reasonable thinking or practical power.

The construction of college think tanks is a social service function such as strategic research, decision -making consulting, and talent training based on their own advantages. The starting point and destination of the construction of college think tanks are the docking of countries and social needs, solving practical problems, and highlighting the legitimacy and legitimacy of college think tanks. The "study" research that is out of practice is not the foundation of college think tanks. Promote the high -quality development of colleges and universities, and urgently need to strengthen the awareness of "problems", and the true "problems" for the country and social needs. And high -quality development. In the traditional liberal arts construction model, although many teachers have strong scientific research capabilities, they are mainly limited to basic theoretical research. The awareness and research level of application countermeasure research is not enough, resulting in slow or high level of progress in the construction of think tanks in universities. New liberal arts construction promotes the "getting out of the ivory tower" in the liberal arts of colleges and universities, encourages teachers to integrate their academic research into the realistic economic and social development, and write articles on the land of China. It is very beneficial. The construction of college think tanks needs to seize the good timing of the construction of new liberal arts, discover and cultivate talents of college think tanks, improve the level of application countermeasures and research of teachers in universities, and fundamentally promote the high -quality development of college think tanks.

Emphasize the cross -fusion of disciplines

In today's era, many major theories and practical issues have been raised to China and countries around the world. Single or certain disciplines cannot solve these problems. They must strengthen the interdisciplinary integration. The "New Liberal Arts Construction Declaration" pointed out that "the wave of new technology and industrial revolution is galloping, and social problems are increasingly integrated and complicated. To deal with new changes and solve complex issues, it is urgent to integrate across discipline majors. Promoting integration and development is the construction of New Literature. The inevitable choice ". The important goal of the construction of the new liberal arts is to promote cross -integration of disciplines, break the barriers of disciplines, promote the deep integration of the liberal arts majors, and cross -integration of liberal arts and science and engineering agriculture, and empower the self -update and revolution of liberal arts with cross -integration.

Different disciplines have different research objects, discipline language, discipline style and culture. Promoting the interdisciplinary cross -integration, it is necessary to break the system of university college based on a single or individual discipline, as well as a system of resource allocation and personnel employment that is attached to a single discipline. The beliefs make cross -disciplinary culture an important part of university culture and academic culture. During the construction of the new literature and subjects, the effective way to cross -integrated disciplines is to establish a cross -disciplinary organization to organize the research of cross -disciplinary disciplines to study the disciplinary culture of the interdisciplinary discipline. With the construction of new liberal arts, there will be more and more interdisciplinary organizations, and college think tanks are one of the organizations.

In this context, the construction of college think tanks should be concentrated and concentrated in the application countermeasure researchers of various disciplines. First of all, give full play to the aggregate effects of the key research bases and high -level scientific research platforms, consolidate the talents of think tanks, aim at major theories and practical issues, carry out decision -making consulting, and serve economic and social development. Secondly, strive to break the obstacles of disciplines, integrate resources, condense the characteristics, and create a new type of substantive think tank agency. On the one hand, maintaining the openness and compatibility of the organizational boundaries, and attracting members of different disciplines with theoretical and practical problems as the characteristics of theoretical and practical issues to carry out research on cooperation; on the other hand, explore the board of directors or board of directors, and implement it with a flat organizational structure. Running to fully ensure the autonomy of researchers. Promote the reform of liberal arts evaluation

Academic evaluation is the command stick of academic research in colleges and universities. The academic evaluation system is directly related to the orientation of academic research. For a long time, liberal arts evaluation has been closely carried out on the dissertation, works, awards, projects and other indicators. Each quantitative indicator has stricter hierarchical standards within a single discipline. This evaluation mechanism has its rationality, but how to reform and innovate on the basis of absorbing the original liberal arts evaluation system, and establishing an evaluation system that meets the needs of new liberal arts construction is an urgent problem. On October 13, 2020, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council issued the "General Plan for Deepening the Reform of Education Evaluation in the New Era", which proposed to improve the scientific research and evaluation of teachers in colleges and universities. The quantitative indicators such as the number of thesis, the number of items, and the funding of the subject are linked to the performance salary and the reward of the performance salary ", and" the results of major theoretical innovation, cutting -edge technology breakthrough, solving major engineering technical problems, and major contributions in the development of economic and social undertakings The dissertation when applying for senior professional titles can not be restricted. " This provides a fundamental basis for the reform of the scientific research evaluation of colleges and universities, and also pointed out the direction for the reform of the new liberal arts and the construction of college think tanks in the reform of scientific research evaluation.

Establishing a new liberal arts evaluation mechanism shall form relevant implementation rules in combination with the actual situation and needs of the new liberal arts construction with the actual situation and needs of the new liberal arts construction. The first is to broaden the category of "results". You cannot just read thesis, works, awards, etc., "consulting reports" and "solutions" and other forms of results that can prove the actual contribution of researchers should also receive equal respect. The second is that it is not based on the "quantity", but pays attention to the iconic results and masterpieces. Seeing whether these achievements really solve the practical problems in the development of the national economic and social development. The third is to explore the evaluation and identification of the scientific research results of interdisciplinary disciplines. Traditional scientific research evaluation is generally carried out within a single discipline, and the new literature science focuses on cross -disciplinary integration. Its scientific research results have exceeded a single discipline and need to formulate scientific research evaluation methods with a new field of vision. The new liberal arts evaluation system largely meets the attributes and requirements of college think tank research to a large extent, which helps the construction of think tanks in colleges and universities.

The needs of college think tanks should also actively create an evaluation system suitable for think tank attributes with reference to the new cultural evaluation system to promote the high -quality development of college think tanks. The first is to adhere to the principle of combining quantitative and qualitative. There are quantitative components such as the number of instructions of think tanks, and there are also difficulty in quantitative ingredients. With actual influence, adherence to the combination of quantitative and qualitative can help comprehensively and objectively evaluate the research results of think tanks. The second is to relax the evaluation cycle appropriately. The biggest value of the research results of think tanks is to effectively solve the "problem", and the "problems" in economic and social development are often not instant and immediate, so it is necessary to appropriately relax the evaluation cycle and explore the long -term evaluation system. The third is to evaluate the opinions of the comprehensive multi -evaluation subject. Think tank research results often focus on solving complex practical problems, and it breaks through a single discipline standard. Different disciplines, governments, industry industries, and social relevant personnel have the right to speak on the results of think tank research. In order to comprehensively evaluate the evaluation opinions of multiple stakeholders, they can give more fair and objective evaluations to college think tank research results.

(Author unit: Zhejiang Tree Ren University; School of Education, Shanghai Normal University)

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Feng Shujuan Yan Yajun

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