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What is a university?
University: the scientific name is ordinary colleges and universities. It is a cultural institution with unique functions. It is an institution of higher learning that is interrelated with social, economic and political institutions, and firmly inherits, studies, integrates and innovates advanced academic knowledge.

1 is not only a product of the development of human culture to a certain stage, but also a unique university culture gradually formed on the basis of long-term school-running practice through historical accumulation, self-efforts and the influence of external environment.

2. Universities have a history of thousands of years since they came into being. Tracing back to its birth, it mainly developed from Germany, Britain and other countries. Modern universities in China originated in the west, and western modern universities gradually evolved from European medieval universities, German universities and American universities. No matter which era, universities are the creative inheritance of previous universities, not the negation.

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University mission:

1. The mission of the university under the domination of the university concept requires that the students trained by the university should first be people with noble character and education, which is in line with the essence of the university. This mission is to cultivate students' complete personality, purify their minds, cultivate their conduct and cultivate their ability to criticize things, not just to educate them professionally.

2. As Newman, a famous British educational theorist, realized: "From the argument of utilitarianism, we can see the deadly enemy of real education. Under the guidance of utilitarian theory, the new university pays more attention to professional training than cultural requirements, exams and results rather than psychological processes, and passively obtains facts rather than general psychological activities.

Core role;

1. The rise and fall of a country is closely related to the rise and fall of a university. There are two aspects to a country's strength, one is "hard power" and the other is "soft power". The core and focus of "soft power" is the rise and fall of universities. At present, it is impossible to become a world power without many high-level universities, and it is impossible to become a world power without a number of world-class universities.

2. History has repeatedly proved another truth. World-class universities are struggling in the competition. Especially since the mid-1990s, human society has gradually entered a brand-new era characterized by political multipolarization, economic globalization, cultural diversity and information networking.

3. In this new era, a new wave of internationalization of higher education has been set off around the world, which requires universities of all countries to go further to the world, accelerate the internationalization process through competition on the basis of localization, generally improve the cultural taste, school-running level and education quality of many universities, and build a number of world-class universities.

4. As a university, its competitiveness can be divided into many factors, such as school-running concept, curriculum and discipline (specialty) setting, teachers' quality, students' source, hardware facilities, management system, campus environment, capital investment, contribution, social reputation and so on.

5. If we further analyze these factors, the university culture, which is mainly condensed in the profound cultural heritage of the university, is the core competitiveness of the university and the basis for its survival, development, running a school and undertaking major social responsibilities.

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Baidu encyclopedia-university