This turn-back run lasted for four and a half years, during which Zheng Qiang kept running at a high speed as a runner: he often slept in the office after working overtime, published his work and life feelings on WeChat at night, preached educational ideas everywhere, and shouted for supporting policies for your university. He has been wearing old labels such as "Zhejiang University students' favorite teacher", "angry young professor" and "dare to say and do", and has also been labeled as "students' favorite university president" and "Internet celebrity strong brother".
After staying in Guizhou University for more than four years, a whirlwind blew in Zheng Qiang. He drastically promoted the reform, so that teachers would not expect to increase class fees and turn to scientific research results. He formulated the constitution of the university, giving the staff congress, the student congress and the graduate congress the right to suggest the replacement or dismissal of leading cadres at all levels in the school, introducing a 27-year-old doctor who has published world-class papers and being directly rated as a professor, which promoted the purification of the school spirit and style of study, and closely linked the establishment of colleges in the school with the grand strategy of the development of Guizhou Province. ...
Zheng Qiang's joys and sorrows are written on his face. People who like him say that he has no shelf and is decisive. People who don't like him say that he speaks too straight and does things too fast. Today, Zheng Qiang is about to leave the post of President of Guizhou University. He told China Youth Daily and Zhongqing Online reporter: "I handed in the baton in high-speed running."
Blow "Pure Wind" to Guizhou University
"The essence of a university is to cultivate excellent students." Recently, Zheng Qiang talked about this core many times in an exclusive interview with China Youth Daily and Zhongqing Online reporter.
"No matter how luxurious the zoo is, there are no rare animals, and this zoo will not work; No matter how good the school hardware is, this university will not work without excellent students. " Zheng Qiang said.
He repeatedly mentioned an example to many people. When he first arrived at Guizhou University, he walked past the examination room and saw a student cheating and the invigilator playing with his mobile phone. Every time he talks about it, he will be very angry and frown.
"We must fundamentally change this unhealthy trend," he said. After the examination, the presidents, secretaries and deans of each college will conduct the examination and discipline inspection one by one.
Not only the students who cheated were caught, but also the severe accountability fell on the teachers. Several teachers were punished for failing to implement school rules and lax examination discipline, which is extremely rare in the history of Guizhou University in recent years.
"The atmosphere in the school will soon improve, because both teachers and students know that the principal is serious." Zheng Qiang named this operation "Pure Wind Plan".
After several years of "pure wind", Zheng Qiang believes that this action has really brought great changes to the attitudes of teachers and students in your school. Now he gives an example: in 20 16, an undergraduate student of a chemical engineering department in Guizhou University published a paper in a world-class chemical magazine as the first author, which created the first time in the history of your university.
"Pure Wind Plan" comes down in one continuous line, and it is a "learned plan" promoted by Zheng Qiang. He hoped that the students of Guizhou University would embark on a higher level of academic life. "A good university will not only enable students to find jobs, but also train them to become the core talents of this country in the next 20 years."
The university charter sowed the seeds of democratic governance for teachers and students.
How to sow the seeds of democratic governance for teachers and students from the university governance structure through system design is another major proposition that Zheng Qiang thinks.
Zheng Qiang knows that his outspoken personality has brought more attention to your university, and he also knows that a university cannot rely solely on a prestigious president, but must formulate a perfect university charter.
"I think it is very important that the university governance charter should be innovative and conform to the law of running a world-class university and the characteristics of Guizhou University." Zheng Qiang believes that the constitution of Guizhou University should not be formulated with "takenism", and the important idea should be to fully embody the democracy and rights of teachers and students in the process of university governance.
Such an idea became the fifth chapter in the articles of association of Guizhou University, which specifically stated the "democratic management system".
In this chapter, it is written that one of the main functions and powers of the teachers' congress is to supervise and make democratic comments on leading cadres at all levels in the school, put forward suggestions for replacing or dismissing leading cadres at all levels who are seriously dereliction of duty and incompetent, and report them to the higher-level organization department according to procedures.
This chapter also writes that one of the functions and powers of the student congress and the graduate congress is to supervise the work of leading cadres at all levels in the school, and the student congress and the graduate congress can jointly put forward suggestions on the replacement or recall of party and government leading cadres who are seriously dereliction of duty and incompetent. Such suggestions need to be seconded by the workers' congress and reported to the superior organization department according to the procedure.
At the same time, this chapter also makes it clear that the school will set up an inquiry hearing system according to the regulations, and the school trade union will organize an inquiry hearing meeting. The main scope of inquiry hearing system involves major school reform measures, school system and mechanism reform, major interest distribution policy adjustment and performance appraisal scheme formulation, and major decisions involving the interests of faculty and students.
"Are you crazy? Not afraid of being impeached one day? " Zheng Qiang received a lot of articles of association as soon as they came out? In the eyes of some friends in Zheng Qiang, "such regulations are playing with fire and taking risks".
"I have complete confidence in myself." Zheng Qiang said, "I'm not worried about being fired at all. Most teachers and students have full trust in me. "
Reform Practice of "Zheng Qiang Style"
After entering your university, Zheng Qiang began to carry out reform, which was called "Zheng Qiang style" by many people: vigorous and vigorous.
The reform first touches on the academic field.
"It's hard for you to imagine that some professors haven't even written papers for a year." Looking back now, Zheng Qiang is still patting the table. At that time, teachers hoped that the new headmaster could quickly solve the expectation of a large salary increase. At that time, the salaries of faculty and staff in Guizhou University were at a low level compared with other universities in the province. Unexpectedly, the reform directly blocked the way to directly increase income. Zheng Qiang's reform path is to break away from "equality" and combine teachers' salaries with their academic level and scientific research ability. He bluntly said that teachers should not focus on class allowances and year-end awards to increase their income, forcing teachers to delve into academics and strive for research funding. Sometimes when you are in a hurry, you will ask the teacher, "Is income and academic level cost-effective?" Zheng Qiang believes that the reform has brought great impact to some teachers, and misunderstandings, contradictions and even conflicts have appeared in a short time. This is normal. When the reform met with resistance, some media commented that he was a "lonely principal amid applause and boos". Ordinary friends are afraid to look for him directly when they see this voice, but Zheng Qiang will take the initiative to accept these criticisms. On the surface, he is dismissive. "I don't care about those irresponsible comments at all." .
Zheng Qiang is very persistent. He believes that the high income of all first-class university teachers depends on academics, and the most important thing is to promote their academic achievements to production practice and get paid. He asked professors to use the most advanced and cutting-edge technical achievements to talk about basic theories in class, and the teaching mode of using blackboard writing to explain disciplines must be eliminated.
Zheng Qiang has set a goal of increasing the number of doctors in Guizhou University by 65.438 million every year. When he first arrived at your university, Zheng Qiang saw that the statistics of the school showed that the proportion of teachers with doctoral degrees was less than 17%. When he was about to leave Guizhou University, the proportion rose to 33%, ranking first among Guizhou universities.
Another change of deep drilling is that the number of projects supported by scientific research funds of Guizhou University is gradually increasing. In the past, teachers of Guizhou University applied for more than 50 national natural science funds every year. Zheng Qiang's goal is to double the number: we must strive for more than 65,438+000 projects. "20 16, Da Gui won the National Natural Science Foundation 104." Zheng Qiang said.
Will continue to shout for western education.
Until June 22, 65438, the official account of WeChat, the official WeChat of Zhejiang University, announced the appointment of the party group of the Ministry of Education. Many people know the news that Zheng Qiang was transferred back to Zhejiang University.
As of press time on May 5th, official website of your University still showed Zheng Qiang as the principal of the school.
Now when it comes to leaving your university, Zheng Qiang shows reluctance.
Zheng Qiang believes that three things he promoted in Guizhou University can benefit Guizhou University for many years:
One thing is that when I first arrived at your school on 20 12, I caught up with the provincial leaders and handed me a thick plan for the new campus of Guizhou University. Before long, the instructions from the provincial leaders came down, and the construction of the new campus in Da Gui started quickly.
"Da Gui received a special construction fund of 4 billion yuan," Zheng Qiang said. For colleges and universities in underdeveloped western provinces, such support is not small.
The second thing is that Zheng Qiang put forward the school-running concept of "Guizhou University is named Guizhou", and specially set up colleges with strong "Guizhou characteristics" such as liquor, big data and tea, so as to transport talents for Guizhou's economic and social development. To this end, Guizhou University has received more than 654.38+0 billion yuan of school funding support from government departments.
The third thing is that Zheng Qiang joined forces with the presidents of western 14 universities to speak out, and finally promoted the comprehensive strength improvement project of universities in the central and western regions. In the area where 13 is not directly affiliated to the Ministry of Education, a sustained and stable investment mechanism will be given to 14 selected universities, and the annual support for running Guizhou University from the central government will continue to be stable at more than 6,543.8 billion yuan.
From the outside world, this is Zheng Qiang's three most powerful cries to Guizhou University and western education. To this end, Zheng Qiang released a lot of "malicious words", which made many people "unhappy". "The harder you work, the more reluctant you are now." Zheng Qiang said that his position will change now, and he will continue to shout for western education in the future.
On April 1 day, official website, the Ministry of Education announced the list of press spokespersons of provincial education departments and universities directly under the Ministry of Education in 20 17. Zheng Qiang was among them and became the press spokesperson of Zhejiang University.
"Next, I have to consider how to talk about Zhejiang University on the international stage." Zheng Qiang said.