As mentioned just now, university culture is a question under discussion, and there is no unified answer. Everyone thinks that university culture should have not only architecture, but also masters and great love, and should be student-oriented and academic-oriented. In other words, a school's teacher culture, management culture and student culture constitute its campus culture, which is not only reflected in the tangible campus architecture and campus appearance, but also in academic atmosphere, student life, teaching level and many other aspects. University culture and campus culture are both developing concepts, which need to be enriched and enriched through our own creative practice. Theoretically speaking, university culture and university spirit are independent from the political organization system, free from ideology, critical from the self-confirmation of organizations and society, creative and transcendent from paying attention to utilitarianism in social reality, and inclusive from the special formula of social division of labor. This also illustrates some characteristics of university culture and university spirit from several aspects. Of course, there are many famous sayings of senior scholars, such as inclusive description, the scale of our university, how big it is and where it is. I gradually have my own answer to this question. There is a saying about the important role of universities in modern society. It is said that there is a certain relationship between the rise and fall of universities and the rise and fall of big countries.
The development of the university depends on the construction of the university system, and all of you here, especially our front-line teachers, have a special and important responsibility for the spiritual construction of the university. Our Dalian University is also becoming a very attractive new case in the construction of modern university system. I also hope to communicate with you and promote the construction of our university system.
As an important part of university culture, the construction quality of university institutional culture has an important influence on the inheritance, development and innovation of university culture. By analyzing the problems existing in the construction of university institutional culture, such as misunderstanding, official standard, utilitarianism and lack of humanization, this paper probes into the development trend of the construction of university institutional culture in China in the new period.
Since the founding of New China 50 years ago, especially since the reform and opening-up, the education authorities and universities have carried out a series of fruitful reforms and practices in the construction of university system culture in China, and made great achievements in the construction of teaching system culture, scientific research system culture, personnel system culture and student management system culture, which promoted the further orderly, standardized and rational management of universities in China and ensured the healthy development of universities according to law. However, we should be soberly aware that there are still some outstanding problems in the construction of institutional culture in Chinese universities, which will greatly affect the construction of university culture if these problems are not effectively solved. First, the main problems in the construction of institutional culture in Chinese universities 1. Three misunderstandings in the construction of university institutional culture (1) confuse the connotation and extension of university system and university institutional culture. In the process of university institutional culture construction, people often confuse the connotation and extension of university system and university institutional culture, and think that the connotation and extension of university system are the same as those of institutional culture, which is actually a deviation in people's understanding. University system is a norm of university people's behavior habits, value orientation and ideology.
The foundation of university system is university idea, and its foundation is academic freedom and academic autonomy. Maintaining the position of knowledge authority is the spiritual tradition and historical mission of universities. As a social academic organization, university is different from any other organization, and its outstanding cultural characteristics determine the cultural orientation of university system construction. Therefore, the construction of university system should pay attention to creating a good cultural atmosphere internally and maintaining the spiritual temperament and cultural tradition of the university; Coordinate the value conflict between universities and society, and ensure the cultural status and independent critical spirit of universities.
The establishment of China's university system is abrupt. It has not experienced the gradual process of European universities, and the traditional connotation of universities is not profound. As Xu Meide, a Canadian scholar, said, "It was not until 19 17 that Cai Yuanpei returned from Europe that the idea of university autonomy and academic freedom began to appear in Peking University and universities ... According to his idea, modern universities in China should be based on German autonomy and academic freedom. Cai Yuanpei's idea of "professor running the school" was fully reflected in the education law he drafted in 19 12. After he became the president of Peking University, he began to reform Peking University according to his own educational thoughts, and put forward the idea that universities are purely institutions that study knowledge and cannot be used as places to cultivate qualifications or sell knowledge, and the university concept of "following the principle of freedom of thought and adopting inclusiveness", which is mainly reflected in the institutional arrangement of democratic management, and its form is "professors running schools". Since then, he has also set up a "professor's meeting" and a "professor's appraisal meeting", and set up an executive meeting to advocate a collegiate system for affairs other than academic affairs, and to promote the reform of Peking University's management system through the establishment and improvement of various committee systems. This series of ideas and practices became the beginning of China's modern university system.