There is a popular saying in colleges and universities: "Teaching is public land, while scientific research is private land." The reason is that professional title evaluation is linked to scientific research papers and has nothing to do with teaching tasks, so teaching is not even a side job. .
In April 2014, Fang Yanhua, a female lecturer at Tsinghua University, was faced with a "promotion or resignation" policy according to the regulations that "those who have not been evaluated for professional titles after nine years of employment must resign". However, there are more than 50 graduates and graduates from all over the world. The petition of more than 40,000 words hopes that the school will retain this teacher who "has insufficient scientific research results due to his full devotion to classroom teaching". Later, Fang Yanhua was transferred to staff.
Similarly, Yan Caihong, a general lecturer at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, died of lung cancer on March 12, 2005. Within three days of his death, more than a thousand condolence articles by students were published on Jiaotong University's BBS. Yan Caihong's teaching level and ethics were widely praised by Jiaotong University teachers and students. One student described his state of mind in class: a cup of tea and a piece of chalk. He never brings textbooks or teaching reference books. He already knows the knowledge well, has examples at his fingertips, and his lectures are clear and self-contained. His circuit class is known as "Magic Electric" and almost every venue is packed with seats. Such a teacher who was loved by students was not promoted to associate professor until his death? The main reason is that he did not have a thesis.
When good teachers are not taken seriously, the students are naturally the ones who suffer the most. Students go through arduous college entrance examinations and pay high tuition fees to enter university, only to find that the education they receive is unsatisfactory. In many classes, teachers are not well prepared and seem to be distracted and overwhelmed. So why do colleges and universities “emphasize scientific research and neglect teaching”? Because scientific research results are considered the school’s hard power, an important indicator of university rankings, an important achievement of school leaders, and an important source of financial allocations. In the past 10 years or so, most of my country's 985 and 211 institutions have proposed the goal of building research-oriented universities. In the view of school administrators, in order to become a research-oriented university, the volume of graduate education must be increased and academic research must be emphasized. Therefore, The indicators for evaluating teachers formulated by many universities emphasize academic research indicators, including publishing papers, applying for projects, project funding, etc. Undergraduate teaching work is only a workload requirement, and if the scientific research is outstanding, it does not matter whether there is such a workload On the contrary, if a teacher attaches great importance to teaching, does not invest enough energy in academic research, and publishes few papers, even if his teaching is popular with students, it will be difficult to obtain favorable results in assessments, evaluations, especially professional title reviews.
The fundamental reason is that today’s colleges and universities implement administrative leadership rather than open education. The public’s doubts and even the complaints of students cannot affect the education strategy of colleges and universities. The running of colleges and universities only depends on the administrative plan. The leader is in charge.
What we want to object to is not the thesis, but the emphasis on quantity rather than quality