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Cultural characteristics of university town
Judging from the relationship between university culture and community culture, the culture of university town is spreading. Through long-term contact with the surrounding communities, university culture spreads to the surrounding communities, absorbs the cultural characteristics of the communities at the same time, and may even form an integrated cultural whole through cultural adaptation. Due to various reasons, there is a widespread phenomenon of cultural deficiency in China's current university towns, and its cultural connotation does not show the above four characteristics. Next, the author expounds the phenomenon of cultural deficiency in China University Town, and analyzes its reasons, focusing on the core component of university town culture-university culture.

The cultural heritage of colleges and universities-it takes time to accumulate and inherit.

University culture has its own personality, which is closely related to the cultural background of a university. It is mainly passed down and carried forward by generations of students through cultural indoctrination, and finally recognized by the society and becomes its unique character and characteristics. The liberal arts of Oxford and Cambridge in England, the academic spirit of Berlin and Heidelberg in Germany, the open habits of Harvard and Yale in the United States, and the spirit of Paris Teachers College can not only edify the teachers and students of our school, but also infect the whole community and even society. The formation of cultural heritage needs historical accumulation and the efforts of several generations. After several centuries of development and evolution, many western university towns (especially natural university towns) have gradually formed their own unique cultural connotations and university cultural characteristics.

At present, the domestic university towns are basically planned and constructed, and many universities in the university towns belong to the branch schools of a city university. It has been less than ten years since it was built, and it is not easy to inherit the cultural traditions of the old campus, not to mention the unique cultural heritage. Mei Yiqi, the former president of Tsinghua University, said, "A great scholar is not a building, but a master." . This is similar to Gilman, the first president of Johns Hopkins University: "The honor of a university should depend on the overall quality of teachers and scholars, not on the number of people or the buildings they use." Due to the difficulties brought by running schools in two places or in the suburbs, most teachers in university towns live in urban areas far from school buildings. Coupled with the non-replicability of culture, buildings have been built, but it is far from overnight to carry forward the "master" and his spirit.

There is still a long way to go for cultural enjoyment and integration between universities.

As a system, culture is composed of various elements. Cultural integration is a process in which various cultural elements or types adapt to each other and coordinate with each other, and finally become an organic cultural whole. It is the proper meaning of university city culture that colleges and universities in university city gradually realize the sharing and integration of culture through sharing teaching resources and complementing each other's advantages. Colleges and universities should have strong cultural integration because of their clear educational purpose, relatively unified value orientation and teaching organization and management mode. However, in fact, mutual cultural enjoyment and integration are not high. In addition, the enjoyment of educational resources involves cooperation and coordination in all aspects, and various cultural conflicts may occur in the process of cultural integration. The direct result of cultural conflicts between universities is the idleness of educational resources, which include not only hardware resources such as activity places and facilities, but also software resources such as teachers, students and campus cultural traditions. Another problem in the enjoyment and integration of inter-university culture is that the enjoyment of some hardware resources, such as libraries, computer rooms and canteens, is relatively easy to achieve, while the enjoyment of software resources, such as teachers and courses, is relatively lagging behind, requiring more time to enjoy and integrate relevant educational concepts, values and customs. Of course, the cultural enjoyment and integration among universities in the university city is always based on the relative independence and uniqueness of each university, and it is impossible and unnecessary to achieve 100% integration. In the early stage of the construction of university town, the phenomenon of idle educational resources and cultural conflict may also be the only way for the development of China University Town.

The channel of cultural innovation and transformation among enterprises in colleges and universities blocks the cultural innovation and transformation function of university towns, which is embodied in some specially planned university towns, namely science and technology parks. At present, there are about 1000 science and technology parks in nearly 50 countries and regions around the world. Due to the differences in political system, management system, scientific and technological innovation level and cultural background, each science park has different modes of cultural creation and technological transformation, but these mature science parks with different modes have many similarities: First, relying on intellectual resources, for example, Silicon Valley has a large number of universities and professional research institutions represented by Stanford University, with more than 300,000 high-tech talents, 48 research institutions, educational institutions and 1 150.

After more than ten years of exploration and development, there are no fewer than 50 science and technology parks in China, but there are still many problems in cultural innovation and technological transformation. First, universities and scientific research institutions, as the main bodies of cultural innovation, still lack stamina in scientific and technological innovation because of insufficient cultural heritage and little cultural enjoyment among them. Second, as the last link of scientific and technological transformation, enterprises can not give full play to their initiative and enthusiasm because of imperfect development environment and imperfect internal operation mechanism; Third, the government and intermediary institutions, as the intermediate links of scientific and technological transformation, are not in place to guide the collaborative work among universities, scientific research institutions and enterprises. The existence of the above problems directly affects the effective allocation of cultural resources in various science and technology parks, making culture unable to achieve its due social and economic benefits, which is also an important manifestation of the lack of culture in China University Town.

Between groups in colleges and universities-the struggle between cultural exchange and cultural adaptation.

Generally speaking, the results of cultural exchange are as follows: first, the two cultural systems have absorbed some cultural factors of the other side, but still maintained their independence; Second, one party is assimilated by the other party, thus integrating into the other party's cultural system; Third, absorb each other's cultural factors and form a new cultural system; The fourth is to repel each other (or one party to the other) and maintain their independence. In most naturally developed university towns in the west, the results of cultural exchanges between universities and communities basically belong to the above-mentioned third category, that is, after long-term running-in and adaptation, university culture and community culture absorb some cultural factors from each other and finally merge into a university town cultural system that is different from university culture and original community culture.

On the other hand, the scope and degree of cultural communication and cultural adaptation are basically proportional to the similarity and contact time of the two cultural systems. In the long-term running-in process, we will naturally encounter exclusion and even cultural conflicts. For example, Cambridge University, due to different religious customs and the mischievousness of young college students, is said to have aroused the dissatisfaction of local residents in its newly emerging 12 century, and there have been many incidents of group fights between students and residents. At present, most university towns in China are located on the edge or suburb of the city. The community around the university is either the original town or the newly-built living area and business district. There are certain cultural differences between community residents and university teachers and students in terms of values, customs and habits, and the short time of mutual contact directly affects the scope and degree of cultural exchange and acculturation between them. What's more, considering the imperfect community construction around the university town and the messy staff, university administrators in some university towns restrict students from entering and leaving the teaching area or dormitory area at will, which cuts off the cultural communication channels with the community to some extent. It can be seen that the present situation of cultural exchange and acculturation between universities and communities in China University Town is rather embarrassing, basically it is still in the stage of absorbing only part of each other's cultural factors, but still maintaining their independence, and even there are mutually exclusive cultural conflicts, which is far from finally forming an open university town cultural system integrating university culture and community culture.