See ｜ All freshmen in Nanjing University stay in the old campus. What is the intention?

Go to the opening season of colleges and universities. According to reports, Nanjing University has opened a new model of "root -seeking school" this year: After the school's 2022 undergraduate students are reported, they will stay in the old campus -Gulou Campus. Disciplinary diversion, enter different campuses and continue to study. This approach makes people shine.

Where to cultivate after the admission of undergraduate freshmen is enrolled, there is no certain regulation. Most universities' ways are to put it in the new campus in the past three years and move to the old campus in the last year. According to colleges and universities, the benefits of doing so are obvious: First, most of the new campuses are far from prosperous cities, which is conducive to studying in the first three years of new students; second, the old campus is usually located in the old city, which is convenient for students to internship and find a job in the last year; Third, the old campus is usually the root of the university, which is convenient for graduates to accept the influence of campus history and culture.

However, this training model is often criticized. There is a view that many university freshmen have studied three years in the new campus, and they have no chance to enter a few times and contact the society several times. When you move to the old campus in the senior year, some students have to go to the field to internship and find a job. Where do I have time and mood to accept the historical and humanistic influence of the old campus? In particular, some new campuses are far from urban centers. The urbanization level in the surrounding areas is very low, and there are often wild boars, rabbits or other wild animals. Reading a few years in such a new campus is equivalent to being disconnected from urban life in a sense, which is not conducive to college students into cities and contact society.

Universities took the lead in breaking the practice of "three years of new campus+one -year old campus" and positioned it as "root -seeking school". Of course, this is conducive to new students, but its significance is not just looking for roots. From the perspective of running a school, let all the college freshmen stay in the old campus. First of all, it is a kind of thinking innovation, which is the bold breakthrough of the scholars' "usual". To run education is to have this courage to go unusual. Furthermore, this approach also shows the school's attention to freshmen. Old campuses are usually the essence of college history and culture. The hardware conditions may not be as good as the new campus, but the strong humanistic atmosphere is often not comparable to the new campus. The new students entered the old campus as soon as they entered the school, reflecting the attention of universities and undergraduate education.

Of course, the premise of "root -seeking school" is to find "roots". Not every college has a long -term school -running history, distinctive old campuses, and rich humanities. Is it necessary to put all the freshmen in the old campus and need to decide in combination with the actual situation. Furthermore, some universities implement functional partitions. Some undergraduates and masters in some colleges are unified until doctoral students live in a certain campus. This is easier to manage and may not need to be adjusted. More importantly, the new students are unified to stay in the old campus. While facilitating their "roots", colleges and universities must also focus on the education resources to cultivate and educate, so that they can better "solidify" and "open branches" and "loose leaves".

"Root -seeking school" also reminds people that the "root" of college education is very important. Since the 1990s, with the rapid development of higher education in my country, many universities have built one or more new campuses. How to deal with the relationship between "new" and "old", "book" and "last", so that the spirit of the university spirit continues through the expansion of the campus space layout, and the spread of the generations of the generations "Sanda scattered gods" are worthy of in -depth thinking and exploration of scholars. In short, all parties should be more patient with the innovative practices of "rooting schools". It must be more patient with innovation, not to be simple and affirmed or negated, and should not follow the trend and coax.

(Zuo Zhongfu)

- END -