The School of History invited eight specialists in various fields outside the university to discuss the preparation for the fifth round of discipline evaluation and future discipline construction planning on December 29.
The symposium was presided over by Dean Zhang Sheng and attended by the school’s CPC secretary Zhao Qing, vice dean Liang Chen, and teachers in charge of the departments of Chinese History, World History, Archaeology and Cultural Relics, as well as members of the discipline evaluation team.
At the symposium, Luo Xiaoxiang, director of the Department of Chinese History, Zhu Hongjun, director of the Department of World History, and Liu Xinglin, standing deputy director of the Department of Archaeology and Cultural Relics, reported the major ideas and progress in the evaluation preparation on behalf of the three first-level disciplines: Chinese History, World History and Archaeology, respectively.
Professor Ye Meilan, president of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Professor Wu Chunmei, president of Hefei College and other specialists took turns to speak.
They highly appraised the achievements of the school’s three first-level disciplines in the past five years and believed that the three disciplines have made significant progress in talent training, team building, research and service to society. Chinese history has significantly reinforced its academic strength comprehensively and has become a leading discipline. World History and Archaeology have given full play to its original strengths to develop in a promising manner, and have basically established distinctive and advantageous disciplines.
They also made comments on the textual expressions and data presentation of the discipline evaluation profile and put forward suggestions on future development of the three disciplines.
Dean Zhang Sheng expressed his gratitude to the specialists in his concluding speech. He said that the school’s working group will continue to revise and improve the evaluation profile according to their requirements in order to fully present the characteristics and strengths of each discipline.
Meanwhile, the purpose of discipline evaluation is to promote discipline construction. Discipline evaluation is temporary, but its construction is always on the way, so the school will carefully study and adopt the specialists' advice, continue to strengthen the construction of first-class disciplines, and build a distinctive and high-level school of history.
It is reported that since the beginning of the fifth round of discipline evaluation, the School of History has established a leading group under the school’s Party secretary and dean to coordinate the Party committee, administration, student affairs and core teachers of each faculty.
The group has initiated data collection, text writing and form filling work, and at present, the work of filling forms of each discipline is progressing smoothly, and the first draft of the profile has been formed.
On the basis of this time’s solicitation of opinions, relevant disciplines will continue to integrate and finely polish their strengths, further revise and improve the preliminary profile, and summarize the experience from it, so as to lay the foundation for the next first-class discipline construction.
(Article written by He Xin)
