Shandong University is called "the world's largest university" because on the 120th anniversary of its founding, Shandong University proposed to enter the top 100 universities in the world and initially build a world-class university. It was later called "the world's largest university". One big".
The title "World University" comes from the fact that on November 25, 2012, at a meeting of the Ministry of Education, the president of Shandong University said on the stage that Shandong University planned to complete the project in 9 years. On the 120th anniversary of the founding of Shandong University (2021), it will enter the top 100 universities in the world and initially build a world-class university. This sentence later spread, and the "World No. 1" meme spread on the Internet.
The meaning of the title "World University" not only expresses the large number of campuses and complete colleges of Shandong University, but also implies Shandong University's desire to strive to develop into a world-class university. Shandong University is the origin of modern higher education in China. Its main body is Shandong University, founded in 1901. It is the second government university founded in China after the Capital University.
The impact of the title "World University" has both positive motivating and encouraging effects and negative sarcastic and ridiculing effects. The positive thing is that Shandong University has taken this as its goal to continuously improve its comprehensive strength and international influence. On the negative side, Shandong University's domestic rankings have steadily declined in recent years, and its discipline construction has experienced an obvious decline. This sentence has become a way for others to ridicule Shandong University.
Discipline development of Shandong University:
1. Discipline planning
Shandong University has formulated a plan based on national and local strategic needs and combined with its own advantages and characteristics. The "Double First-Class" Construction Plan of Shandong University clarifies the overall goals, key areas, major tasks and safeguard measures for discipline construction. Shandong University has also launched the "Discipline Peak Plan" to focus on supporting the development of emerging interdisciplinary subjects, such as precision oncology, Chinese studies, big data processing and visual computing, brain science, etc.
2. Discipline Construction
Shandong University implements project construction management in accordance with the principle of "integration, division and integration" and has established a first-class subject area construction committee to coordinate the overall planning and coordination of each first-class subject area. construction work. Shandong University focuses on promoting the construction of teaching staff, talent training, platform bases, scientific research, cultural inheritance and innovation, international cooperation and exchanges, etc., gathering first-class teachers and cultivating first-class talents.
3. Discipline Management
Shandong University has established a "double first-class" construction leading group and working group, responsible for the top-level design, resource coordination, overall promotion and daily implementation of the construction of first-class disciplines. Service management. Shandong University has also improved the institutional mechanisms related to the construction of first-class disciplines, such as talent introduction and incentive mechanisms, fund allocation and use mechanisms, achievement recognition and reward mechanisms, etc.