June 24th, Yangtze Evening News "The Chief's Appointment" Suzhou famous school tour live broadcast went to Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University , talked with the principal, deans, and alumni, interpreted the characteristics of XJTLU, and took candidates and parents to have an in-depth understanding of this university. A charming international institution of higher learning, the live broadcast was launched on multiple platforms of Yangzi Evening News, attracting the attention of more than 900,000 netizens.
In the 16 years since its establishment, XJTLU’s unique educational philosophy and high-level talent training quality have been recognized by all walks of life, and it has been hailed as “the benchmark for Sino-foreign cooperative universities” and “the pathfinder of China’s higher education reform.” In 2021, in the face of the continued impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on global employment patterns, 2,967 XJTLU 2021 mainland undergraduate graduates braved the wind and waves, achieving a 94.91% graduation destination implementation rate and pursuing their academic and career ideals around the world. Among them, 2,544 people chose to continue their studies at home or abroad after graduation, accounting for 85.74%. 858 people entered the top ten universities in the world for further study, accounting for 33.73%.
Student stories
Experienced troughs and despair during the epidemic
Wildly accepted Yale and other 13 prestigious schools
Deng Yueqian has been in college for four years, and the epidemic has been with him for two and a half years. When the "crisis" broke out in his junior year, he faced several pressures at the same time: academic work , research and English. Having withstood the test of the epidemic, he was admitted to 13 top prestigious schools including , Yale University, and .
Because his English foundation is relatively weak, Deng Yueqian took the initiative to sit near the front in the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) class so that he could have more interactions with the teacher. After class, if he had any questions, he would ask them on the spot or write them in advance. Do your homework well and ask your teachers for advice. More than three years of accumulation at XJTLU have substantially improved his English ability, especially his overall thinking ability. "The environment provided by XJTLU is good enough. After two years of EAP classes, everyone's overall English level will improve, and they will soon be able to meet the requirements of communicating with teachers in English and making reports and speeches in English."
Deng Yueqian said that the biggest pressure is It started when I failed the first course in my junior year. "I found that I had left behind too many things. I made up my mind to switch myself to a proactive and tense state: make good review plans and time management. Every day is a sprint state, and the free time of the day is even compressed to Only five minutes... my sense of urgency was aroused. I found that when I adjusted to a very efficient and excited state, all the goals that seemed lofty before became achievable. "
Affected by the epidemic, Deng Yueqian’s scientific research experience is not as complete as that of previous classmates. On the eve of the summer vacation of his junior year, he contacted Teacher Meng Jia and applied to join his laboratory for scientific research. Teacher Meng arranged for him a project that matched the direction of his graduate application. "This is a cross-cutting topic about RNA modification, biological sequencing technology and the computer field. From learning basic classroom knowledge to solving scientific research problems, it is still a little difficult to adapt in the early stage. With the help of my doctoral student sister, I studied online course materials by myself , to understand the logic required by the computer and the mathematical language , and learn the machine learning tool by himself. "
After the summer vacation, at the suggestion of Teacher Meng, Deng Yueqian continued the topic and expanded it into a graduation thesis. Push down. This became a very critical and formal scientific research experience during his undergraduate period, and also became a great advantage when applying for graduate school. "I maintained a high-intensity fighting state for a whole year until I successively received 13 postgraduate admissions from Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, University College London and other prestigious schools." He finally chose computational biology major at Carnegie Mellon University. "It is the collision of high points and low points that determines where I will go in the future."
Atypical "hot-blooded comic hero":
From "Gamer Kid" to Cambridge scholar
"Before applying to Cambridge, I felt that this It’s something that has little hope but will regret if you don’t do it.” For Cao Shuangyuan, who has been fond of games and comics since he was a child, studying at a top university in the world like Cambridge is an attempt to break through the limits. This is what supports him. , is his four-year experience at XJTLU.In the past four years, he has found a creative method and development direction that is more suitable for his own interests. Not only has he become a better "student", but he has also become a better "self".
has a passion for comics, games, and movies, so he chose the Digital Media Arts major of the School of Film and Television Arts. “Its courses include both art and technology. What I didn’t expect was that this major allowed me to learn more about art and technology. , and found another direction. "An assignment on the introduction to digital media art in his sophomore year allowed him to break away from the perspective of a player and a producer and gain an unexpected and interesting experience by looking at familiar works as a researcher. "Art and research are not separate, but exist as one - an artist can also be a scholar who is good at inquiring."
What really made him decide to take the route of a researcher was teacher Liu Fang, a junior, who led After the interactive art project "Between the Mountains". Under the guidance of his teacher, he completed a paper analyzing user tutorials on interaction design, which was successfully published at the 2021 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. "This is the first time that I have done a complete academic publication in such a serious manner."
"Since I am determined to choose an academic route, I simply choose the top one as my goal and try to make a breakthrough again." Cao Shuangyuan first planned to apply for Cambridge. The film studies major, a 100% theoretical major, requires much more material to prepare than most universities, but the IELTS score has always been insufficient. Just when he was wondering whether to give up, he accidentally discovered a new major in Cambridge through the personal homepage of a film studies teacher: digital humanities. So I applied for this major that was so new that it was difficult to find online, but was a perfect fit, and became the first graduate from the School of Film and Television Arts to apply to Cambridge.
"If I hadn't come to XJTLU, I probably wouldn't have learned about academic research, nor would I have known that there are subjects like digital humanities. My hobbies would just be 'treasuring my own things.' Now, games, comics and movies are not just for me. The interest, love and creative carrier will also be my research object and the way I look at the world. This change is brought to me by XJTLU. "Interview with the President of XJTLU:
" Since its establishment 16 years ago, XJTLU has always been Adhere to innovation and development, whether it is the 1.0 model of international professional elite education, the 2.0 model of international industry elites with integrated innovation and entrepreneurship, or the integrated education ecology of future-oriented, platform building, technology empowerment, and integrated symbiotic education innovation ecology. 3.0 model, our original intention of education has not changed.” Recently, Professor Xi Youmin, Executive President of Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, pointed out in an exclusive interview with a reporter from the Yangzi Evening News that the three education models go hand in hand and span basic education and new vocational education. We are actively exploring five aspects to reshape education, lead the future, and serve society.
Innovate three major education models to help students develop diversified development
President Xi said that in the early days of the school's establishment, standing at the forefront of the era of global reshaping of education, the original intention of XJTLU was not just to run a good university, but to conduct research through running a university. Educational exploration to influence the development of future education. In the digital and networked world, the media for knowledge dissemination are diversified and the channels have become more convenient. Teaching knowledge is no longer that difficult, and the model of professional elite education needs to be changed. "The basic idea of change is to use teaching knowledge as a means, not as an end. The purpose is to help students grow. Because in this era, student growth is more important than learning knowledge."
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University is based in China, facing the world and the future , changed the traditional education model and established a student-centered teaching system, committed to helping students achieve three major transformations in college: from children to young adults to global citizens; from passive learning to active learning to research-oriented Learning; from blind learning to interest-oriented to focusing on life planning, supplemented by the "four mentors" system (i.e. academic mentors, peer mentors, life mentors, and off-campus mentors) to guide students to achieve the goal of "happy life, successful life" .
"2.0 model is an integrated education. It is no longer simply to cultivate elites in a certain profession, but to cultivate talents who can combine various professional elites with modern technology platforms and future intelligent machines to create new scenes and new lives. Talent. Through collaborative education with the industry, we will cultivate future-oriented industry elites,” said President Xi.
's current production methods are gradually transitioning to network, platform and ecology. Talents and education should be part of the integration of this ecology, and even become promoters of the industry, thus forming the 3.0 model. "For example, XJTLU-Jicui College, Xitu Huihu College of Pharmacy, School of Future Education, School of Film, Television and Creative Technology, etc., are all manifestations of this new model. These colleges all create an ecology around an industry, including education. , research and development, innovation and entrepreneurship, funding, mentors, industry and other aspects of support, this is the 3.0 model, creating an integrated education ecosystem that adapts to the future.”
Principal Xi believes that innovation is the gene of XJTLU, and XJTLU has continued to do so since its establishment. Rethink education, reshape teaching, and redefine universities. Judging from the evolution of the three major education models, XJTLU’s original intention to influence, change and lead education has not changed. "The three models go hand in hand and do not replace each other, because the three models support and complement each other and jointly support future development to cultivate innovative talents with both knowledge, ability and literacy, international vision and global competitiveness."
The newly upgraded Learning Supermarket empowers lifelong learning
XJTLU Learning Supermarket was launched in May 2020. It integrates global high-quality educational resources and creates cross-regional, cross-age, cross-educational and interest-driven learning and innovation through deep integration of online and offline. , entrepreneurship support platform, and officially opened to the world on May 22, 2021, confirming the further upgrade of XJTLU education exploration.
"The Learning Supermarket is not only the center for innovation, research and development, and entrepreneurship at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, but also the center for university knowledge project exchange and corporate partnership cooperation. With the purpose of advocating lifelong learning, The industry colleges actively interact and collaborate closely with various academic departments of the university to actively empower the exploration and implementation of the university's educational innovation strategy. "
" 'Learning Supermarket' is by no means a temporary initiative, but to shape global interconnection and cooperation in the future world. It is a new idea and new model of learning.” Principal Xi revealed that in July, the XJTLU Learning Supermarket website will be completely upgraded and will provide a more convenient interaction and login interface for users both inside and outside the school. In order to better meet the needs of different users, XJTLU Learning Supermarket will be upgraded to a dual platform: the on-campus learning platform provides online teaching support and services for degree courses to XJTLU teachers and students; the open learning platform is not only open to XJTLU teachers and students, but also external Users provide content and services for non-degree courses, and work with the world's leading education partners to provide high-quality learning resources to all users.
"Any citizen, no matter how old he or she is, can find the courses he likes in the learning supermarket. We hope to integrate the world's rich educational resources and education providers on our platform to truly become a society that follows interests and pursues lifelong learning. , a support platform for innovation and entrepreneurship.” President Xi said that the ultimate goal of XJTLU Learning Supermarket is to become an extremely attractive innovation community, allowing partners to freely develop and share resources in its innovation center. It is reported that since its launch, XJTLU Learning Supermarket has successively reached cooperation with many top global brands such as MIT, Apple, Microsoft, Huawei, Adobe, Cactus, Digital China, etc. protocol.
"In the past 16 years of development, XJTLU has boldly innovated, drawn up grand plans and strategic layouts, and at the same time taken down-to-earth and positive actions. We are pleased to see that XJTLU's actions and layouts are constantly taking root and having an impact on society." President Xi concluded.
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