Personnel Appointment and Removal | Southern University of Science and Technology releases a series of personnel appointments to the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences

Recently, SUSTech held an announcement conference for the heads of the faculties of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. President Xue Qikun, Deputy Secretary Zhang Ling, and Vice President Jin Li attended the meeting, and the Party Committee organized Minister Gong Yi of the United Front Work Department to chair the meeting and read out the school personnel appointment documents. Members of the party and government teams of the Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences and representatives of faculty and staff attended the meeting.

Minister Gong Yi read out the decision on the appointment and removal of the personnel of the Party Committee of the school: appointed Professor Wang Lixin as the dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences; appointed Professor Tian Song as the director of the Humanities and Sciences Center, Professor Zhao Yishan as the director of the Arts Center, and Professor Zhao Jianhua as the director of the Future Education and Research Center.

Minister Gong Yi said that this personnel adjustment is an important deployment made by the school's party committee based on the long-term development of the college and the overall construction of the leadership team, which fully reflects the school's great importance to vigorously develop the new liberal arts and improve the humanities and social sciences governance system. The new team members are all senior scholars who have deep cultivation in their fields, have solid academic skills and rich management experience, and can effectively coordinate discipline construction, team development and external cooperation. The school has high expectations for the new management team.

soon afterThe new person in charge made remarks in turn.

In his speech, Dean Wang Lixin first thanked the trust of the party and government leaders of the school and the support of the staff and paid tribute to Professor Chen Yuehong, the founding dean who laid a solid foundation for the development of the college. He said that he will earnestly shoulder the heavy responsibility of the development of the college, coordinate the efforts of the six major centers of humanities, social sciences, language, higher education, art, and future education, firmly grasp the new cultural and unique positioning of the integration of science and technology and humanities at SUSTech, strengthen general education, do cross-cutting scientific research, build a strong talent team, and broaden foreign cooperation, and further take the road of the development of new cultural sciences at SUSTech with distinctive characteristics.

The three center directors, Tian Song, Zhao Yishan, and Zhao Jianhua, successively expressed their views. The three people respectively focused on the three major directions of basic humanities research, integration of art and technology, and future innovation education. Combined with the overall development plan of the college, they made a commitment to build a characteristic research platform based on their own disciplinary advantages, linking with the superior disciplines of science, technology and medicine on campus, deepening the fertile soil of aesthetic education, producing high-quality landmark results, and handing over the satisfactory answers of the school.

The school leader sends a message to the new team, indicating the way forward in the construction of the liberal arts

Vice President Jin Li, who is in charge of liberal arts work, pointed out that the opportunities and challenges of humanities and social sciences construction in science and engineering universities coexist, and the college has achieved remarkable results in the past. He hoped that the college would do a good job in two aspects: first, continue to consolidate the foundation of the faculty team, coordinate the introduction of leading talents and the training of young teachers, and create a first-class teaching and scientific research environment; second, deepen the integration of internal and external linkages, promote cross-departmental cross-collaboration internally, link the government, think tanks, and universities at home and abroad to promote the high-quality development of the college, and at the same time regularly grasp academic norms and keep the bottom line of school safety. The school will also continue to empower the development of the college in terms of subject planning, platform construction, and resource security.

In his concluding remarks, President Xue Qikun fully affirmed the past achievements of the College and expressed his sincere gratitude and cordial condolences to the teachers of the College who have worked hard on the front lines of teaching and scientific research. He pointed out that the discipline of humanities and social sciences plays a key role in cultivating the humanistic literacy of young students and shaping the campus spirit, and has a major mission in the overall strategic layout of the school to build a world-class university.

President Xue put forward four hopes for the new team: first, adhering to the establishment of morality, constantly improving the general curriculum system, and cultivating innovative talents with both scientific spirit and national feelings; second, deepening the new field of integration of science and technology and humanities, further integrating into the overall development of the school, and improving the ability to serve local and national strategies; third, adhering to the guidance and education, building a high-level interdisciplinary academic community, and promoting the construction of China's independent knowledge system in the humanities and social sciences; fourth, adhering to openness, collaboration and innovation, and deepening exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad. The school will continue to provide strong support for the construction and development of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences.

This centralized personnel appointment is an important measure for the school to optimize the layout of the department and improve the management structure of the college. Under the leadership of the new team, the College will keep innovation, give play to the advantages of multi-center synergy, and provide solid humanistic support for the construction of a world-class research university.