The establishment process of nyu shanghai

On March 28th, 211, the foundation stone was laid in nyu shanghai. This Sino-foreign cooperative university, founded by East China Normal University in China and new york University in the United States, has finally settled in Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone, Pudong New Area. This is the second time that a famous American school has landed in Shanghai after the operation of Harvard Shanghai Center in 21 and the groundbreaking of Duke University in Kunshan.

Like south university of science and technology of china, which has received much media attention before, nyu shanghai is also a brand-new attempt of higher education in China, but its direction is completely different from that of south university of science and technology of china. As the first international university jointly run by China and the United States, nyu shanghai is jointly built by Shanghai Education Commission, Pudong New Area, new york University and East China Normal University. It is located in the "golden position" of Lujiazui Zhuyuan Business District, with century avenue in the southwest, Songlin Road in the northeast, Shanghai Futures Building and Changjia Building in the southeast and Kerry Center Building under construction in the northwest. Based on the experience of

integrating new york University with Manhattan Financial District, and closely relying on Lujiazui Financial City, the school will be built into a first-class international city university.

Yu Lizhong, then president of East China Normal University, revealed that nyu shanghai is a fully-established university with independent legal personality and a non-profit teaching institution. The school will set up a board of directors and a management team. According to China's Regulations on Chinese-foreign Cooperation in Running Schools, the president of the university must be a China national, and the teaching staff is recruited globally, and some teachers from East China Normal University and new york University will also participate.

During the two sessions in p>211, Zhang Jishun, member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary of the Party Committee of East China Normal University, revealed to the media that nyu shanghai would be a university built by tall buildings. "new york University is a building by building, without walls, fully integrated into this city, and has grown up with the city of new york for decades." He said that nyu shanghai should also integrate schools into the city, and there are no boundaries.

in p>211, nyu shanghai will start postgraduate training and advanced training first. In 213, the university plans to recruit the first batch of undergraduates from all over the world. The first batch of open majors are finance, international business and economics, all of which are the strongest majors in new york University. China students can enter the university through the college entrance examination in China and the interview with new york University. They will have 1-3 semesters of study experience in the United States during their undergraduate years, and they can get double certificates from nyu shanghai and new york University after graduation. The press conference on the preparation of nyu shanghai was held in Shanghai on April 5, 212. The press conference announced that Yu Lizhong, president of East China Normal University, will be the first president of nyu shanghai, and Jeffrey S.Lehman, former president of Cornell University and current founding president of peking university school of transnational law, will be the executive vice president and CEO of nyu shanghai. Nyu shanghai is located in Lujiazui Financial and Trade Zone. This practice follows the example of new york University on Manhattan Island, the headquarters of new york University, and embodies the spirit of "in and of the city". The traffic is convenient near the campus, and it can be easily reached by public transportation. Covering an area of 11,661 square meters, the teaching building has 17 floors, with a usable area of 55, square meters. There are six teaching floors in the building, with 51 teaching classrooms and independent study rooms.

There are 13 teaching laboratories in the campus, including biology, physics, chemistry, computer science, electronic engineering and multimedia. The library, which occupies the entire fourth floor, is rich in collections, where teachers and students can log in to the global library database of new york University through the Internet.

The campus building is ingenious in the design of public space, with students as the center, and strives to build a compact and harmonious learning community. There is a student recreation room for table tennis and table football on the first floor of the basement, as well as a student lounge, comfortable sofa benches and office tables and chairs, where you can have a rest and study and work. The Student Government has an independent office, the student community has meeting rooms with different functions, and the coffee shop on the second floor is a good place for leisure. There will be piano room, dance room, gym, yoga classroom and other physical fitness facilities on the eighth floor. The ubiquitous desks and chairs and the 24-hour library give teachers and students a communication space that can be fully enjoyed and private.

In addition, audio-visual technology, teaching guidance technology, video conferencing and other technologies have enabled teachers and students of new york University in new york, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai to have close contact, and teachers and students can log on to the global network of new york University within any campus. On October 5th, 212, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, nyu shanghai, the first Sino-American university with independent legal personality, was formally established in Shanghai.

Universities are positioned as "a useful attempt to explore the construction of high-level Chinese-foreign cooperative universities". Educators in China and the United States say that nyu shanghai is a "testing field" in the field of education between China and the United States, and it also sows the seeds of hope for China to deepen its educational reform.

Yu Lizhong, the first president of nyu shanghai, has been the sixth president of East China Normal University since 26, and previously served as vice president of East China Normal University.

Yu Lizhong (September 14, 1949-), male, professor, doctoral supervisor, winner of special government allowance of the State Council. Born in Shanghai on September 14th, 1949. A senior high school graduate from Shanghai West Middle School in 1969 went to the countryside to work in Changshuihe Farm in Heilongjiang Province. In September 1978, he was admitted to the Department of Geography of East China Normal University. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in science in 1982 and stayed in school. In April, 212, the press conference of nyu shanghai's preparatory work announced that Yu Lizhong was the first president of nyu shanghai. He is simple and kind, keeps pace with the times, and often communicates with students in Weibo and other channels. During his tenure as president of East China Normal University, he was deeply loved by students. At 9: 5am on August 12th, 213, 295 freshmen from nyu shanghai lined up and walked into Siqun Hall of East China Normal University. Parents who had been sitting in the back row of the auditorium for nearly an hour, school leaders and teachers sitting in the front row all stood up and applauded to welcome the first students of this international university run by China and the United States.

Compared with Yu Lizhong, who gave a speech in less than a quarter of an hour, Jeffrey Lehman, the former president of the University of Michigan Law School and the 11th president of Cornell University, gave a speech in nearly half an hour, the core content of which was what kind of education these students from all corners of the country would receive in nyu shanghai and what kind of development they would have.