On the morning of March 16, a review meeting for the 2025 undergraduate talent cultivation programs was held at the Academic Exchange Center. The meeting was attended by Qin Rui, Standing Committee Member of the University Party Committee and Vice President, along with the entire Academic Affairs Office staff, deans and vice deans for academic affairs from each school, program directors, and heads of teaching and research sections. The meeting featured 25 specially invited expert reviewers, including academic leaders from various “double first-class” universities across the province and beyond, members of the Ministry of Education’s Teaching Guidance Committee, and senior technical executives from leading enterprises, who engaged in in-depth exchanges on optimizing undergraduate talent cultivation programs and developing specialized programs in the new era.
The meeting was structured in three parts: an expert meet-and-greet, group deliberation sessions, and an expert summary session.
During the meet-and-greet, Vice President Qin Rui emphasized that talent cultivation programs are central to implementing the fundamental task of moral education. He noted that this is a crucial period as the university strives to achieve “double first-class” status, making the development of the 2025 talent cultivation programs not only a key annual task but also an essential requirement for deepening educational reforms and implementing improvements based on evaluation feedback. He asked the experts to provide precise diagnoses and address critical issues, assuring them that the university would fully incorporate their recommendations to optimize and implement the programs.
Following this, the attending experts divided into four groups—humanities and arts, economics and education management, science and engineering group one, and science and engineering group two—to review 83 undergraduate talent cultivation programs from 20 schools, comprising 68 specialized programs and 15 experimental class programs. Directors from each program presented their design concepts, improvements, and distinctive features for the 2025 programs, while expert panels offered feedback on curriculum design, program characteristics, faculty support, and other crucial elements.
During the expert summary session, each panel leader presented their conclusions. Professor Liu Renshan, leader of the humanities and arts group and Vice President of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, recommended constructing an independent knowledge system integrating humanities and social sciences to accelerate the development of new liberal arts disciplines. He advised aligning with national strategic needs while focusing on Chinese-style modernization and cultural inheritance and innovation to strengthen China’s discourse system. He also emphasized enhancing program distinctiveness, fostering students’ independent thinking in the AI era, andensuring comprehensive delivery of all essential core courses.
Professor Huang Mingdong, leader of the economics and education management group and faculty member at Wuhan University’s School of Political Science and Public Administration, suggested standardizing program formats and improving the general education curriculum system. He recommended strengthening the “Introduction to Community for the Chinese Nation” course cluster, optimizing the “course offerings-graduation requirements” matrix design to reinforce goal orientation, increasing the proportion of artificial intelligence-related courses, and enhancing specialized faculty teams.
Professor Ke Changjian, leader of science and engineering group one and Dean of the Institute of Science and Technology Development at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, advised clarifying program adjustment directions to enhance differentiation, refining program positioning to reflect the university’s overall goals and contemporary requirements, implementing curriculum reforms with solid faculty support and teaching quality assurances, and guiding students toward independent learning to achieve higher-level capability development.
Professor Yu Faquan, leader of science and engineering group two and Vice President of Wuhan Institute of Technology, recommended clearly defining program development positioning, coordinating and optimizing program structures, enhancing course sophistication, strengthening innovative practical skills development, reinforcing core curriculum design, and highlighting distinctive features between programs.
In his concluding remarks, Vice President Qin Rui expressed gratitude to the experts for providing valuable suggestions with their rigorous academic attitudes and profound professional expertise. He noted that this review meeting provided important guidance for the university’s educational reforms. He pledged that the university would use “double first-class” construction goals as a guide to systematically organize and implement expert recommendations, focusing on advancing reforms in program structure adjustment, curriculum system renovation, faculty team optimization, and quality assurance mechanism improvement. These efforts aim to comprehensively enhance talent cultivation quality and inject new momentum into building a high-level modern comprehensive university.
