(Correspondent: Xu Henghong, Li Xiaojia, Qin Yisong, Ning Jingbo) On the morning of October 27th, the closing ceremony of the First National Forum on the Growth and Development of Counselors in Higher Normal Universities was held in the lecture hall on the first floor of the Humanities Comprehensive Building. Li Diao, Deputy Minister of Office of Student Affairs and Director of the Ideological and Political Affairs Department, Li Honglei, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of School of Chinese language and Literature, the organizer Ma Ying, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of College of Physical Science and Technology, and Zhang Dehua, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of School of Physical Education and Sports, as well as nearly one hundred counselors and other ideological and political elites from 30 higher normal universities across the country, attended the closing ceremony. The ceremony was presided over by Li Xianling, Deputy Director of the Ideological and Political Department of Office of Student Affairs.
Firstly, all attendees watched the forum video collection and together reviewed the wonderful time of learning and training at the forum.
Subsequently, the representative Zhang Jingning, a counselor at Northeast Normal University, gave a speech. On behalf of all the attendees, she expressed gratitude to CCNU and the “The Party Building and Ideological Education in Schools” periodical office for carefully preparing this forum. And she used three key words to share her gains of this forum: The first one is “empowerment”. This forum invited senior counselors who had won major honors such as the Most Beautiful College Counselor in China and the Annual Figure of National College Counselors. They shared educational wisdom and experience in growth and development from aspects such as quality and ability improvement , career growth and development, and innovative practice exploration. Counselors present were empowered comprehensively in broadening work horizons, improving educational skills, and developing comprehensive qualities. All the participants expressed that they had gained a lot and had great confidence and hope for the career of counselor. The second one is “warmth”. CCNU had carefully planned and prepared for the forum, and invited leaders from the Ideological and Political Department of the Ministry of Education to provide on-site guidance, and provided academic support in conjunction with the “The Party Building and Ideological Education in Schools” periodical office. It had arranged rich learning content for counselors, such as team ice breaking, special reports, group discussions, centralized exchanges, and visit and study. Fine services were provided, making participants feel happy and fulfilled. Counselors had gained a deeper understanding of the characteristics and charm of the brand “Education With Warmth” of CCNU. The third one is “moving forward”. After nearly three days of concentrated learning, all participants not only improved their ideological understandings, political awareness, and qualities abilities, but also strengthened their confidence and determination in being a counselor for a long time. They determined to become one “most beautiful counselor”in the future, to strive to improve their internal skills, to devote themselves to strengthening moral education and cultivating people, to keep working in the field of ideological and political education, and to strive to promote the all-round development of college students of morality, intelligence, physical fitness, aesthetics and labor with high-level ideological and political education.
After that, Li Diao, Deputy Minister of Office of Student Affairs and Director of the Ideological and Political Affairs Department, presented course-completion certificates to the delegates.
Finally, Director Li Diao gave a speech. He expressed gratitude to the counselors from higher normal universities who actively participated in this forum, and expressed that the school would continue to hold this forum every year. He hoped that the attending counselors would continue to pay attention to and support the forum, and mobilize more counselors around to actively participate in the forum. The school will focus on building the forum into a high-end platform and academic think tank to assist in the professionalization, specialization of college counselors nationwide. He raised three hopes for the attending counselors: The first one is to strengthen learning and digestion, and to practice what they had learned. He hoped that counselors can strengthen the digestion and absorption of learning and discussion content, focus on improving their quality, ability, and work level, transform learning achievements into work results, and jointly contribute to the high-quality development of ideological and political work in universities. The second one is to strengthen cooperation and exchange, and to promote collaborative linkage. He hoped that counselors can unify their thinking, build consensus, deepen cooperation and construction among universities in various regions, strengthen communication and exchange , further expand their circle of friends, knowledge, and ability, and work together to build a “great ideology and politics”collaborative education pattern. The third one is to strengthen exploration and innovation, and to create brand characteristics. He hoped that counselors can always maintain their passion and vitality for innovation, fully combine the educational advantages of various colleges and personal strengths, continuously explore new concepts, ideas, and models for innovative ideological and political work, strive to build the brand of ideological and political work with school characteristics, regional demonstration, national leadership.
Source: Office of Student Affairs
Author: Xu Henghong, Li Xiaojia, Qin Yisong, Ning Jingbo
Translator: Zeng Yan
Date: November 7, 2023
