On April 28th last year, the Ministry of Education sent a letter agreeing to change the name of Luzhou Medical College to "Sichuan Medical University". Shortly thereafter, Sichuan University launched a "name protection" campaign: it sent a letter of objection to the Ministry of Education, clearly expressing its disagreement with the renaming of Luzhou Medical College as "Sichuan Medical University". The former West China University of Medical Sciences, which was merged into Sichuan University, used the name of "Sichuan Medical College" and made it a famous brand. Sichuan University believes that Luzhou Medical College is easily confused with the century-old brand of "sichuan medical journal" after it was renamed as "Sichuan Medical University". The "contention for fame" incident once triggered a "war of words" between students of two universities on the Internet. At the end of June last year, thousands of "Lu Yi" students gathered on the campus of the university to express their willingness to defend the name of Sichuan Medical University.
Recently, the Ministry of Education said in the Letter of Sichuan Provincial People's Government on Renaming Sichuan Medical University to Southwest Medical University dated 65438+February 14 that it agreed to rename Sichuan Medical University to "Southwest Medical University". This is the second time that the school has changed its name in less than a year. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education said, "Changing to' Southwest Medical University' does not mean the improvement of the school's level and specifications, but reflects that the Ministry of Education and Sichuan Province hope that the school can make full use of its geographical advantages, give full play to its school-running characteristics, and undertake more functional orientation of serving primary medical care in Southwest China."
Just when many people thought that the name change storm had come to an end, a few days ago, Southwest Hospital of the Third Military Medical University officially issued a statement, demanding that Sichuan Luzhou Medical College immediately stop its improper name change, and had applied to the Ministry of Education for administrative reconsideration of the name change of colleges and universities through the Third Military Medical University.
Recently, Southwest Hospital issued a solemn statement in official website on safeguarding the rights and interests of Southwest Hospital and Southwest Clinical Medical College. The statement said: Recently, it was learned that Sichuan Luzhou Medical College was renamed as Sichuan Medical University and then renamed as Southwest Medical University, which seriously infringed on the rights and interests of Southwest Hospital and Southwest Clinical Medical College, causing strong indignation and resolute opposition from experts, professors, faculty and patients of Southwest Hospital.
In recent years, there has been an upsurge of "upgrading and renaming" in colleges and universities. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education, there are three reasons: first, the name change caused by the adjustment of school-running level; second, the name change caused by the adjustment of discipline and specialty structure and the improvement of school-running level; third, the name change caused by the decoupling of independent colleges from parent schools and the transformation into independent private undergraduate schools. Generally speaking, renaming is the embodiment of colleges and universities actively adapting to the needs of regional economic and social development, clarifying the orientation of running schools and enhancing their service capabilities; It is the result of meeting the diversified needs of talents in the popularization stage and the diversified development of colleges and universities.
"It should be noted that since the expansion of higher education in China in 1999, the gross enrollment rate of higher education in China has increased from 9.8% before the expansion to 37.5%, the total number of students in higher education has increased to 35.59 million, and the number of ordinary colleges and universities has increased from 1022 to 2,529, building the largest higher education system in the world. However, there are also some colleges and universities whose average running scale is too large. The person in charge said, "At present, there are indeed some problems that a few colleges and universities blindly pursue upgrading and renaming, the orientation of running schools is unclear, and the characteristics of running schools are weakened. In order to further improve the quality of higher education and enhance the ability of higher education to serve economic and social development, the Ministry of Education is working hard to study and formulate relevant policies and measures to solve it. By strengthening overall planning, improving policy guidance, promoting evaluation and supervision, implementing classified management and other policy measures, especially improving the evaluation system of colleges and universities, strengthening process evaluation and introducing the third-party evaluation mechanism, the scientific orientation, scientific development and characteristics of colleges and universities can be promoted. "