Head anchor Li Jiaqi fell into the "high school education" storm. The Internet circulated a picture of Li Jiaqi's candidacy for the 198 constituency of the Shanghai Pudong New Area People's Congress Deputies, in which Li Jiaqi's information reads: Male, born in October 1992, Han ethnicity, masses, high school education. Previous public reports show that Li Jiaqi's alma mater is Nanchang University, and Li Jiaqi has also appeared in the official Weibo of Nanchang University as an alumnus many times.
Is it the previous college alumni identity fraud, or is there another hidden plot? In this regard, on the afternoon of November 10, the Alumni Work Office of Nanchang University released the "Explanation on the Relevant Situation of Li Jiaqi Alumni", which mentioned that recently we have paid attention to the discussion about Li Jiaqi alumni on the Internet. After verification, Li Jiaqi is a full-time undergraduate student majoring in dance studies in Nanchang University in 2011, who has studied and lived in the school for nearly 4 years, and left the school early due to work reasons and was completed.
This response confirmed Li Jiaqi's status as an alumnus of Nanchang University, and according to the school's response, according to Article 32 of the Regulations on the Management of Students in Ordinary Colleges and Universities (Decree No. 21 of the Ministry of Education): "Within the prescribed years of the school, students who have completed the content of the education and teaching plan and fail to meet the graduation requirements are allowed to complete the course, and the school will issue a certificate of completion." "According to this clause, the state recognizes the academic qualifications of undergraduate graduates, and the academic qualifications are recognized as undergraduate completions. Therefore, Li Jiaqi's academic qualifications should not be high school degrees, but undergraduates.
But there are still netizens who question, full-time university has not graduated, can it be counted as an alumnus? This requires the popularization of the concept of alumni. Not only do full-time universities do not graduate to obtain a certificate of completion, but they are alumni of the school, that is, they receive non-academic continuing education and training, obtain training certificates, and can also be called alumni in the broad sense. For the concept of "alumni", many college students have an "alumni contempt chain", but for the alumni association of schools that attach importance to alumni resources, they continue to broaden the "alumni circle". Schools should cherish the brand of academic qualifications, but also develop alumni resources.
There are different "algorithms" for who can be counted as alumni. Some count full-time undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees as alumni; some count students with part-time continuing education as alumni; and others count non-degree continuing education and training students as alumni. Different algorithms, the size of the "alumni circle" obtained is different, and it also reflects the different recognition of different alumni. Generally speaking, the recognition of alumni of full-time academic education is higher than that of alumni of academic continuing education; non-academic continuing education students are also considered alumni, and they are considered "rubbing alumni".
From a worldwide perspective, the "alumni circle" also has a "chain of contempt". For example, some elite universities regard undergraduate students as the most important alumni, followed by doctoral students, followed by master's students, and the last in line is other forms of on-campus learners. This chain of contempt, the essence is still to look at the identity of academic qualifications, and to sort the gold content of academic qualifications. In recent years, China's colleges and universities have generally expanded enrollment, and many full-time colleges and universities not only hold full-time academic education, but also carry out academic continuing education and carry out non-academic continuing training. Since academic continuing education students will receive diplomas issued by the school, full-time academic education students will question, which will lead to the dilution of academic content, and then oppose the school to carry out large-scale academic continuing education, unwilling to call them alumni.
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And this chain of contempt is not conducive to the development of the school. First of all, no matter what kind of academic qualifications and which kind of alumni identity, we should adhere to the same training standards, otherwise, it will cause an impact on the gold content and brand of school qualifications. The recognition of full-time academic education in China is higher than that of academic continuing education, because the enrollment and training standards of academic continuing education are lower than that of full-time academic education. Some famous schools in China have thus stopped holding academic continuing education, which seems to maintain the brand of academic qualifications, but it has affected the radiation of educational resources and benefited more educated people.
Second, a school should use alumni as the most valuable resource to give all alumni a high-quality education during their time at the university. In the United States, the alumni donation rate is an indicator to evaluate the university, the alumni donation rate refers to how many alumni donate to the alma mater, the higher the alumni donation rate, indicating that the higher the quality of education given by the school to the students, and the better the career development of the graduated alumni. To use alumni donations to promote the school, it is necessary to treat all students who have studied in the school as alumni, so that they can get a good education during their time at school, and continue to pay attention to their career development after they leave the school. In recent years, China's colleges and universities have set up alumni associations to attach importance to the development of alumni resources, which is a good thing.
Back to Li Jiaqi, although he did not get a bachelor's diploma, this did not prevent him from becoming an alumnus of Nanchang University, because he did study here for four years, but did not graduate with a degree and diploma. Like Bill Gates who dropped out of Harvard, he was still known as a Harvard alumnus and later received an honorary doctorate from Harvard.
It is worth noting that in China, for students like Li Jiaqi who have not obtained a degree or graduation certificate, they usually do not mention that they are alumni of a certain school, because they have withdrawn from school and have not obtained a graduation certificate, which is always less "glorious". But for those who left the school to achieve career success, it is different, Li Jiaqi said that he is an alumnus of Nanchang University, and Nanchang University has also mentioned Li Jiaqi alumni many times, obviously because Li Jiaqi has achieved career success. This also shows that the hero should not be based on academic qualifications, a student's memory of the alma mater, not the final diploma, but the process of receiving education and growth, the alma mater can give any student a good educational experience, then, you can let more alumni become talents, and remember the alma mater, return to the alma mater.