What is the board of directors of Shanghai Jiaotong University? Why do universities have boards of directors like companies?

Shanghai Jiaotong University is one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in China. It is a national key university directly under the Ministry of Education and jointly established by the Ministry of Education and Shanghai. It is also the first batch of national key construction universities in the "Seventh Five-Year Plan", "Eighth Five-Year Plan" and "21Project" and "985 Project". After 1 13 years of unremitting efforts, Shanghai Jiaotong University Education Group has become a "comprehensive, research-oriented and international" domestic first-class and internationally renowned university, and is steadily moving towards a world-class university. In order to build a platform for socialized education enterprises and give full play to the resources and advantages of century-old Jiaotong University in education, talents, technology and information to serve the society, Shanghai Jiaotong University Education (Group) Co., Ltd. was jointly established by Shanghai Jiaotong University Industry Group and Shanghai Jiaotong University Nanyang Co., Ltd. on August 4, 1999, with a registered capital of1500,000 yuan. It is an independent legal person economic entity that develops lifelong education in Shanghai Jiaotong University. The total assets of Education Group are 330 million yuan; The net assets are 65.438+70 billion yuan.

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The board of directors of Shanghai Jiaotong University Education (Group) Co., Ltd. consists of five people. Wu Zhuping, general manager of Shanghai Jiaotong University Nanyang Co., Ltd. is the chairman; Gong, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Shanghai Jiaotong University Industrial Investment Management (Group) Co., Ltd., Professor Tao Aizhu, Chairman of Shanghai Jiaotong University Overseas Education College, Zhao Jianmin, President of Shanghai Jiaotong University Education (Group) Co., Ltd. and Executive Dean of Shanghai Jiaotong University Overseas Education College are directors. The Advisory Committee of Education Group consists of more than 20 Jiao Tong University professors and department leaders.

Professor Ding Wenjiang, deputy director of the School Affairs Committee of Shanghai Jiaotong University and vice chairman of Shanghai Association for Science and Technology, is the director of the Committee, and Ji Kaifeng, assistant to the president, is the deputy director of the Committee.