On July 3, the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Hubei Province and the Hubei Provincial Department of Education released the list of winners for the 2025 Hubei Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards.SCMU secured a total of ten awards, including three Special‑Class Prizes, two First‑Class Prizes and three Second‑Class Prizes for undergraduate education; one First‑Class Prize for postgraduate education; and one Second‑Class Prize for basic education. This represents a historic breakthrough for the university in obtaining Special‑Class Prizes.

The awarded achievements span multiple disciplinary categories. Closely centering on the primary task of fostering the sense of community for the Chinese nation, they fully integrate the requirements for advancing the New Liberal Arts and New Engineering initiatives, yielding a set of distinctive teaching outcomes. These awards epitomize SCMU’s long‑term commitment to teaching reform and consistent efforts to enrich educational connotations.

The three Special‑Class‑Prize‑winning projects highlight the integration of ideological‑political guidance and professional education, demonstrating the sense of responsibility of ethnic‑affiliated universities in serving national strategies and regional economic and social development.The South-Central Minzu University Model: Innovation and Practice of Education for Fostering the Sense of Community for the Chinese Nation is anchored in the Party’s guiding principles for ethnic work in the new era. Targeting the educational goal of delivering“tangible, perceptible and effective”outcomes, it systematically addresses three prevalent challenges in relevant education:“the disconnection between knowledge and practice, inaccurate evaluation mechanisms, and insufficient collaborative efforts”.Dual Guidance, Three-Round Driving Force and Four-Dimensional Coordination: Innovation and Practice of Community-Oriented Training for Finance and Accounting Talents in the Digital-Intelligent Eraresponds to digital-intelligence trends. It innovates the community-based educational philosophy involving inter-university and university- enterprise partnerships, builds a virtual- and- physical integrated training platform, and establishes a cross-disciplinary talent training mechanism featuring dual guidance, three driving forces and four-dimensional coordination.Ideological Political Cultivation for Soul Shaping and Field Work-Based Nurturing: Exploration and Practice of the“Ethnology plus”New Liberal Arts Talent Training Model follows the core task of fostering the sense of community for the Chinese nation and aligns with national strategic requirements for ethnic work. It embeds curriculum based ideological and political education throughout the whole process of ethnology-oriented talent training and establishes the“Ethnology plus”New Liberal Arts talent training paradigm.

SCMU has always attached great importance to teaching. Since the launch of the application cycle for this round of Teaching Achievement Awards, it has adopted forward‑looking planning, tier‑based cultivation, dynamic refinement and coordinated promotion. The university has organized end‑to‑end work covering sorting‑out, distillation and submission for each candidate project. Based on their respective disciplinary strengths, each college systematically summarized years of talent‑training reform practices, repeatedly polished application documents, and fully showcased the remarkable results and distinctive highlights of SCMU’s educational reforms.

List of award‑winners:

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