University culture is the "soul" of a university, the fundamental embodiment of a university's internal quality and external influence, and the backbone of national culture. Cultural consciousness is a profound and rational cultural thinking, as well as a cultural realm that runs through ancient and modern times, China and foreign countries, and has gradually become a rich cultural view and theory. Therefore, reflecting on the construction of university culture from the perspective of cultural consciousness is a new perspective for universities to meet challenges and solve practical problems, and it is also an ideal realm pursued by university culture construction. At present, facing the challenges of global cultural diversity, China's cultural transformation and the reform of higher education itself, there are some problems in the construction and development of university culture, such as utilitarian value orientation, weak consciousness of cultural subject and administrative governance. On the basis of in-depth analysis of the related concepts and characteristics of university cultural consciousness, it is of great practical significance to explore the promotion path of university cultural consciousness in view of the practical problems existing in the construction of university culture.

Conscious behavior is the key factor to enhance the cultural consciousness of universities. The essence of cultural consciousness lies in the consciousness of cultural subject, which is a more important consciousness and a higher level consciousness. University people are the most direct subject of university cultural consciousness, and the conscious behavior of the subject is the concrete embodiment of university cultural consciousness. However, what college students are facing is a multicultural conflict and heterogeneous cultural pattern, which inevitably requires arming college students with socialist core values, adhering to mainstream culture, inheriting traditional culture and learning from foreign cultures to realize the creative transformation and innovative development of their own culture. Only by attaching importance to cultural literacy and improving the cultural consciousness of university leaders, teachers, college students and administrators can the overall cultural consciousness of universities be improved.

Remolding the spirit is the core content of enhancing the cultural consciousness of universities. University spirit is the core and pillar of university culture, which has rich connotations of the integration of scientific spirit and humanistic spirit, the simultaneous development of critical spirit and innovative spirit, and the equal emphasis on independent spirit and free spirit. Rebuilding the university spirit needs to be guided by the socialist core value system and socialist core values, and form specific strategies for rebuilding the university spirit, that is, defining the orientation of the university spirit, guarding the tradition of the university spirit and injecting the quality of the spirit of the times. Perfecting the system is an important guarantee to enhance the cultural consciousness of universities. University system is a long-term mechanism for the transformation of university spirit into university behavior and the formation of environmental atmosphere. It is a reflection of university culture at the institutional level, and its formation, innovation and implementation is a cultural process. Perfecting the system requires clarifying the connotation and characteristics of the university system, tracing back to the origin and changes of the western modern university system, reviewing the historical evolution of the university system in China, and gaining international reference from the modern university system. It is necessary to construct university statutes under the guidance of modern university ideas, establish a university autonomy system based on university subjectivity, implement a professor scholarship system dominated by academic power, implement a democratic management system centered on university teachers and students, and create a cultural consciousness path of modern university system.