Schwarzman’s project content

The Schwarzman Scholars Program adheres to the principle of "based on China and facing the world" and selects undergraduate graduates from the world's top universities around the world who are academically outstanding, honest and upright, have a broad vision, have a sense of responsibility and mission, and have leadership potential. Go to Tsinghua University for a one-year postgraduate study in order to cultivate students who have a broad international vision, excellent comprehensive quality and excellent leadership skills, understand Chinese society and Chinese culture, and are willing to contribute their talents to promoting world peace and development. Future leaders strive to make important contributions to a rising China and a changing world. The project adopts innovative educational and teaching concepts and methods to provide students with a unique opportunity to comprehensively understand the world and explore China.

The curriculum system is designed with the world and changing China as the main line, highlighting the global perspective and the Chinese perspective. Through in-depth investigation of Chinese society, we understand the changes in China under the background of globalization and explore the fundamental issues of world development. and practical challenges. The project takes courses and training that integrate knowledge, ability, thinking and character as the main body, adopts a flat, experiential learning model, and establishes professional directions such as economic management, international relations, corporate management, and engineering management. By providing students with High-quality course learning, rich professional practice, multi-faceted academic exchanges and cultural experience activities, discussions and dialogues with senior industry figures, etc., combining in-class and extra-curricular, theory and practice, and through learning from experienced leaders Observe from the sidelines to promote the overall improvement of leadership and the systematic cultivation of critical thinking and cross-cultural understanding.

At the same time, the Schwarzman Scholars program recruits the best teachers from around the world, absorbs advanced international educational concepts, promotes changes and adjustments in the methods and directions of school education, teaching and talent training, and strives to update the concept and development of higher education in China. Deepen reform and play a leading role. The project director is Li Daokui, a professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University and director of the Center for China and World Economic Research. The advisory committee invited former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Key. Singh and other outstanding figures from international political, economic, social, scientific, artistic and other fields to provide consulting suggestions for project development; the academic committee is composed of Sir Colin Lucas, former president of Oxford University, Director of the Fairbank Center for China Studies at Harvard University, Harvard Business School Professor William Kirby, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Warren McFarland, Yale University Associate Dean of Yale College Jane Edworth and other outstanding educational figures from around the world discussed the characteristics and characteristics of innovative projects. The training model leads the development direction of education and teaching;

The admissions committee is composed of famous scholars or experienced senior administrators from first-class universities at home and abroad to select the best and most potential students in the world for this project. student. The teaching building of the Schwarzman Scholars Program was designed and completed by Professor Robert A.M. Stern, dean of the Yale School of Architecture and one of the founders of the postmodern architectural style. Construction started at the end of 2013 and is scheduled to begin in the first half of 2015. Completed. By then, the selection of students in the first phase of the project will also be completed. The first phase of students will adopt a district enrollment model. The early recommendation will be based on the "recommendation of famous people from top schools". The number of students enrolled in the first phase will be 100, and will gradually be expanded to 100 students in the first phase. 200 people, including 20 from mainland China, 45 from the United States, and 35 from other countries or regions around the world; at the same time, 10 internationally renowned scholars or top industry experts recruited globally by the Schwarzman Scholars Program will also be in place as chair professors, and they will Establish project courses, serve as student tutors, communicate with students regularly, and organize and lead students to conduct field investigations. Ultimately, the Schwarzman Scholars Program will build an extensive and excellent global alumni platform, mentor network and lifelong learning community through the experience of students from multiple countries studying and researching together, providing project members with a social network that will benefit them throughout their lives.

The advisory board of this project is star-studded, including former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, former French President Sarkozy, former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Nobel Prize winner Yang Zhenning, Yale University President Levin, and the former U.S. Secretary of State Kissinger and Rice et al.

The project has raised a total of US$300 million as a permanent operating fund. Schwarzman, the largest donor and founder of the American Blackstone Group, said that when Cecil Rhodes created the "Rhodes Scholarship Program" in 1902 to promote international mutual understanding, the center of gravity of the world economy was Europe. There is no doubt that a closer relationship with China is crucial in this century. With world-class resources and China’s most prestigious universities, we hope that future students in this program will have the power to impact the world. Tsinghua University President Chen Jining said that the project will recruit the best teachers from around the world, optimize talent training methods, advocate flat and experiential learning, and provide students with a social network that will benefit them for life. The school will build a brand-new "Schwarzman College" in the center of the school to create good learning conditions for students and strive to accumulate experience in deepening the reform of China's higher education. Li Daokui, director of the program, said that the program has brand-new standards in terms of enrollment, training, scholarships, etc., which are comparable to programs such as Rhodes and Gates, and will become one of the most influential leadership education programs in the world. This project will complete the first batch of student selection in 2015 and is expected to enroll in the fall semester of 2016.

Why does an education project allow "the heads of state of China and the United States" to send congratulatory messages at the same time?

Jiang Changjian, a special contributor to CCTV commentary, said that the reason why this project is so dazzling is not that it has international politicians and scholars as consultants, nor that it has educated people as academic committee members, but because of the international Insightful people regard "understanding China through academic exchanges" as a component of the leadership of future world leadership elites...

Schwarzman said: "China will become the largest economy in the world... For the West, this means a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of China's social, political and economic environment. It is crucial for both parties to establish a mutually respectful and win-win relationship. Asia and the rest of the world will benefit from this, and economic cooperation will increase. The world will enter a new era of common prosperity."