College counselors are teachers in colleges and universities. 1952, the state proposed to set up political counselors in colleges and universities; 1953, Tsinghua and Peking University made a pilot request to the then Ministry of Education (especially President Jiang Nanxiang of Tsinghua); Since then, many colleges and universities have established a counselor system, which mainly does political work and is the "political leader" of students.
This series of documents and regulations produced two results. First, colleges and universities rapidly expand the team of full-time counselors according to the teacher-student ratio of 1: 200 required by the Ministry of Education. The second is to conduct large-scale training for newly recruited and existing counselors.
In order to build and stabilize a large number of expert counselors, colleges and universities have put forward their own methods in recent years.
Fudan University 1998 set up a youth research center to encourage counselors to carry out scientific research in combination with students' work practice and put forward the training concept of "innovative counselors". According to the Regulations on Counselors' Job Responsibilities, full-time counselors should write at least 1 paper on ideological and political education every year, and part-time counselors should write at least 1 paper on ideological and political education every two years.
In addition to encouraging scientific research, organizing various theoretical trainings from the Ministry of Education to colleges and universities has become a routine practice to train counselors, which is of great significance in stimulating their own enthusiasm.
Encouraging scientific research and providing follow-up development direction is obviously more effective than one-way training mode, because it is directly related to the personal development of counselors. In this regard, the establishment and management of the Youth Research Center of Hebei University provides a reference.