Students welcomed their long-awaited spring semester today after the long Chinese New Year holiday. Although the new academic year is just starting, new changes in the campus await SUSTechers.
The first classes of 2017 start today on the Southern University of Science and Technology campus — welcome back to campus. 2,927 undergraduates, 164 postgraduates, and 130 doctoral candidates were having their first class of the semester. The university did its best to make every new comer feel comfortable on their first day here.
A team of evaluators toured the campus unannounced, checking the books, syllabi, and faculty qualifications, visiting some classes and observing the facilities. President Chen Shiyi, Vice President Wu Chuanyue, and Vice Provost Huang Kefu were on the team to welcome the students on the very first day of the spring semester.
“Nothing can change our commitment to nurturing innovative talent and delivering new knowledge to the world. Students will learn in student-centered environments and teachers encourage higher-level questioning and thinking in the classroom,” President Chen said.
Then, the team arrived at the new No.1 teaching building at Lychee Hills to check the classes, especially the environmental sanitation and hygiene. “University is a place where one can learn many things. It helps students to grow into responsible people. Cleanliness, personal hygiene, and good sanitation provides a clean campus environment for the students to keep them in good health and safe,” said President Chen.
The improvement of the campus environment reflects our degree of internationalization to some extent. We hope, through our efforts, that we will go a long way towards improving the quality of SUSTech’s higher education through internationalization.
The executives, led by President Chen Shiyi, inspect the start to the new semester
President Chen Shiyi interacts with the students
The first class of the new semester
Students ask questions during a class break
A foreign teacher is immersed in teaching
