ZISU 2014 Students going abroad projects promotion meeting held

ZISU 2014 students going abroad projects promotion meeting was held recently. President Hong Gang chaired the evaluation meeting of these students going abroad projects and said that students’ going abroad is an important part of ZISU internationalization strategy as well as an important way to integrate with oversea high-quality educational resources and elevate the quality of talents cultivation. Hong Gang affirmed the achievements that ZISU has achieved during the past years and put forward some specific requirements on concepts and ideas about how to promote students going abroad projects greatly.

The promotion meeting of 2014 stuck to the principle of “From the Students, by the Students, for the Students”. The preparation, implementation and feedback stages are all centered on students.

Exploit students’ potentials of creativity

The overall planning activities, early online questionnaire, online media publicity, writing and making of sponsored stories, event execution and late feedback of the promotion meeting are all led and conducted by students with support and help from office of international cooperation and exchange. In terms of effects, this promotion meeting is close to the student's perspective and thinking, which attracted much more students compared with previous years.

Provide cross-culture experience that welcomed by students

In addition to the traditional activity of listening to elder students’ stories of studying abroad, this promotion meeting sets special activity of “endorsement for my school”, which invites guests from Moldova, Kazakhstan and the U.S. to share their countries and lives in universities. This activity created a proper atmosphere for the meeting and brought an exotic feeling for students who attended.

Listen to the voice of students

Surveying and researching ran through the whole process of promotion meeting. Project score tables for students who are studying abroad as well as more than 300 on-line questionnaires have provided a thorough diagnosis for students demand levels, types and time points, which is an important reference for works on students going abroad projects in the next step. One students remarked that attending going abroad projects is not only for broadening one’s horizon, but also for broadening one’s mind, thus could make one person become more inclusive and understand the existence of differences.

It is reported that ZISU have set 34 projects in 12 categories from the year of 2010, and supported 406 students to study or communicate in 19 countries and regions. In the future, ZISU will stick to the goal of international application talents cultivation, and further fulfill the collaborative innovation between schools and related departments, try to develop and run students going abroad projects in a high-quality, creative, smooth and thorough way. Thirty four teachers from department of student affairs, office of academic affairs and related schools evaluated the 34 projects as a whole, and discussed on topics such as optimization of structures and contents of these projects, procedures for sending out students within projects as well as the work team.