The history of China University is probably the most profound. Famous schools such as Zhejiang University, Wuhan University, Southeast University and Nanjing Normal University. I don't hesitate to recognize my ancestors everywhere and steal other people's history as my own, so as to tamper with and continue my school history.
In 2002, Jiangnan University, located in Wuxi City, Jiangsu Province, ushered in the "Centennial Celebration". It's only been a whole year since the establishment of a national key construction university with light industry characteristics.
Of course, Jiangnan University is not the only school that celebrates its centenary this year. Nine universities, including Nanjing University, Southeast University, Nanjing Normal University, Hohai University, Nanjing University of Technology, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing Forestry University and Jiangsu University, held joint celebration activities at the same time to celebrate the 0/00th anniversary of the founding of Sanjiang Normal School.
This activity, called "Centennial Joint Celebration of Nine Universities in Jiangsu", attracted great attention at that time, and important leaders from many countries sent congratulatory letters. Since then, the school's century-old history has become a certain thing, so that you can see it in official website and Encyclopedia of these nine universities, and they all wrote the school establishment time in 1902, when Sanjiang Normal School was founded. Although most of them were formed in the departmental adjustment of 1952.
However, if we go back to 1982, no one can imagine that they can hold the centenary celebration 20 years later, and some schools did not even exist 20 years ago. But in China, it takes 20 years to rewrite history, and sometimes a celebration can extend the history of a school for decades.
We are too young. Let's change our predecessors.
1982, Nanjing Institute of Technology celebrated its 30th anniversary. It was newly established when the departments were adjusted in 1952, and it was one of the four famous polytechnics at that time. This year, dozens of schools across the country celebrated their 30th anniversary. Most of them are colleges of science and engineering, literature and history, and all of them come from the national adjustment of 1952. Because it costs tens of thousands of dollars to hold a school celebration, the Ministry of Education has also come forward to ask the school celebration to be simple.
1982 10, Notice of the Ministry of Education on Immediately Stopping the Celebration/People's Education Edition
Results Five years later, Nanjing Institute of Technology held another celebration. But this time, they held the 83rd anniversary celebration, which extended the history of the school for nearly 50 years. Although Nanjing Institute of Technology claimed that its history can be traced back to Jiangnan Higher Industrial School founded in 1904, it was only called "the history of running a school" at that time.
This is not over. One year later, 1988, Nanjing Institute of Technology celebrated its 86th anniversary, extended its history again and announced its name change to Southeast University. Southeast University, whose name ranges from 192 1 to 1927, is a national university founded on the basis of Nanjing Normal University. Since then, New Southeast University has taken the history of Nanjing Normal University as its own.
In order to extend the history, Southeast University mercilessly abandoned the original "predecessor" Jiangnan Higher Industrial School and replaced it with Sanjiang Normal School. In today's official website of Southeast University, you can't find the trace of Jiangnan Higher Industrial School, although it has been officially certified as the "predecessor" for more than 30 years.
20 17 southeast university successfully changed its face and held its 1 15 anniversary/southeast university official website.
Colleges and universities in China are all too young. Basically, few people can meet the requirements of the Ministry of Education for a "long history" and hold a school celebration. However, a different predecessor is completely different. Suzhou University, which has never held a large-scale celebration, took a drastic measure to celebrate its centenary, directly tracing its history back to the year when Soochow University was founded 190 1. Although the predecessor of Suzhou University was only considered as the newly established Jiangsu Normal University.
Besides working hard on the "predecessor", in order to continue the history of China University, the school-running date is also described as the school-building date. Jiangnan University, which has almost become the laughingstock of outsiders, takes the founding year of Wuxi Institute of Light Industry as the starting year of its celebration, while the school year is 1958. But even more dishonest is Nanjing Normal University. Although it is also a school with reorganized departments, they still set the "school establishment" time as 1902.
September 9, 20 12, Nanjing Normal University. Students may think that their school has established 1 10/vision china.
The ambiguity of words has given many schools an opportunity. Most of these schools that have celebrated their centenary since the 1990s have adopted this practice. No matter which year they were reorganized and merged, as long as they can be traced back to the earliest school year, they will write the centenary of the school on the celebration.
Schools independently developed from a certain department will also take the establishment date of the department (that is, the date of running the school) as the founding time, and then continue to celebrate the centenary with great fanfare. Therefore, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, which celebrates the 0/00th anniversary of/kloc-this year, was founded in 192 17, not Shanghai Business School.
To be more convincing, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics also used old photos/official website of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.
School building, a necessary killer to continue the history of the school.
In fact, even those famous "century-old schools" can't stand scrutiny. Looking at the renaming history of Nanjing University, we can find that Liangjiang Normal University (1906-191) and Nanjing Normal University (1914-192/kloc-0)
19 1 1 year is the time when the Revolution of 1911 broke out. After Wuchang Uprising, Liangjiang Normal School was closed due to the war, and the original school building was also used as a military warehouse. Until 19 14, Jiangsu Province decided to borrow the original site to establish Nanjing Normal School. The only relationship between the newly established school and the former Liangjiang Normal School is the school building.
Just recently, celebrating the 20th anniversary of/kloc-0 lit up Zhejiang University (also known as "Let the world dance"), and traced its predecessor back to Qiushi College founded by/kloc-0 in 897. This school was ordered to stop enrolling students on 19 12. When the last students of 19 14 graduated, the college was asked to close down completely.
Today's Zhejiang University was renamed from the third Sun Yat-sen University founded by 1927. 1940, the National Zhejiang University held the celebration of 13, but 1946, Zhejiang University changed the celebration to the 49th anniversary, catching up with Qiushi College. And its connection with Qiushi College is the use of the school building in that year.
It can be said that the school building has become a necessary killer for a school to continue its history. This makes Hunan University, founded by 1926, have already won the name of "Millennium University" by virtue of the geographical location of Yuelu Academy.
Obviously, the centenary of 1993 can be used for reference by Wuhan University. In the first year, the school history traced by Wu Da was the National Wuchang Normal School, which was established in 19 13. By 1993 and 10, Wuda suddenly announced that its history dates back to Ziqiang School, which was founded in 1893. Ziqiang School was closed as early as 19 1 1, and the only legacy left to Wuchang Teachers College is the school building.
If you don't change the school history, you will fall behind.
No one can accurately explain why Wu Da suddenly changed the source of school history in 1993. 10 years ago, they just celebrated their 70th anniversary, and overnight, they were judged to be a century-old school through the media. In fact, the least prepared is the brother colleges. So that in June of that year, 5438+065438+ 10, Tianjin University wrote to the State Education Commission to raise an objection, saying that "Wuhan University suddenly announced its centenary celebration, which is really puzzling and unacceptable".
1993, in the eyes of future generations, is just an extremely ordinary year, but when we cut apart the events around that year, the keynote of China University is virtually established. Exaggeration is becoming synonymous with this style.
Since the early 1980s, the United States has held the selection of the best universities for many times, and by 1986, some regions in Asia have also voted for the best universities in their minds. Yes, universities in China have never been on the list. Since the late 1980s, the slogan of building a world-class university has been repeatedly mentioned in some universities. 1In February, 1993, the Central Committee and the State Council issued the Outline of Education Reform and Development in China, and put forward the "2 1 1 project" plan, which enabled a number of universities and disciplines to approach or reach the level of world-class universities in the early 20th century.
Obviously, if we can be selected for this project, the resources available to the school will far exceed those of other similar schools. Take a set of data as an example, we can see that in 20 13 years, as a sequence of "2 1 1", Tsinghua University's total expenditure on scientific research was the largest, which was 393 1 100 million yuan, of which the financial allocation was 2.775 billion yuan, accounting for 70.6%, not.
1996 to 2000, the total construction fund of "2 1 1 project" was 10894 billion yuan, including 2.755 billion yuan from the central government, 3.65438+72 billion yuan from departments, 2.489 billion yuan from local governments and 2.33 billion yuan from schools. In addition, various departments and local governments have also arranged 7.472 billion yuan for supporting infrastructure. At that time, China was almost a "first-class university" with national strength.
Although the first batch of selected names were not announced until the end of 1995, the formulation of "2 1 1 project" undoubtedly gave many universities a shot in the arm-packaging schools became a top priority. What can highlight the Excellence of a school better than having a hundred years of history?
Although it seems impossible to push China University into the advanced ranks in the world in just over ten years, back to 1993, China University obviously believes in this myth, and they are constantly describing themselves as a myth.
Not only the "2 1 1" project, but also other changes this year have made universities begin to prove their Excellence.
As early as 1985, the central government has indicated that it will reform the enrollment system for college students and the distribution system for graduates. 1993 The CPC Central Committee and the State Council formally proposed to reform the "all-in and all-out" and "all-in and all-out" employment systems for college graduates, and implement an employment system in which a few graduates are arranged by the state and most graduates choose their own jobs. This makes students more cautious when choosing universities and majors.
In those years, although the university enrollment expansion policy has not yet begun, colleges and universities have made some openings. 199 1 year, the number of students who took part in the college entrance examination and the number of students admitted were 2.96 million and 620,000 respectively,192 was 2.96 million and 750,000 respectively, and193 was 2.86 million and 920,000 respectively. In the following years, the university admission rate continued to rise. 1999 after the expansion of university enrollment, the university admission rate has exceeded 50%.
Universities that had absolute choice before began to face two-way choices from students, and the competition among universities at the same level became more intense. Compared with improving the teaching level and quality in a short time, it is obviously simpler and more direct to create a story with a long history for the school. The name "a century-old prestigious school" attracts as much attention as an academic award.
Packaging school history has many advantages.
Everything will not just stay at 1993. Only since that year, the tireless "arms race" between domestic universities has been staged. From the long history of the school, to the huge donations from alumni, to the huge advertisements broadcast around the world, Huada tried its best to show its grandiose side in the celebration.
The longer the school history, the more capital to show off. On the list of famous alumni of Hunan University, you can see military strategists like Cai E and Huang Xing, and political leaders like Li Da, Xiong Xiling and Cai Hesen. Even it is not surprising that Mao Zedong was included in the alumni list.
In addition to having more well-known alumni, universities with more than 100 years can justifiably make the ostentation and extravagance of their celebrations bigger and bigger. If the 20th anniversary is held for three days and three nights, people will laugh at it. It is not an exaggeration to hold the 20th anniversary for one week. After all, Tsinghua University's centenary celebration lasted more than three months.