Like South University of Science and Technology, which has received much media attention before, nyu shanghai is also a brand-new attempt of higher education in China, but the direction is completely different from South University of Science and Technology. As the first international university jointly run by China and the United States, nyu shanghai was jointly built by Shanghai Education Commission, Pudong New Area, new york University and East China Normal University. Located in the "golden location" of Lujiazui Zhuyuan Business District, century avenue is in the southwest, Song Lin Road in the northeast, Shanghai Futures Building and Changjia Building in the southeast, and Kerry Center Building under construction in the northwest. The school will borrow it
Learn from the experience of "integration" between new york University and Manhattan Financial District, and rely on Lujiazui Financial City to build a first-class international city university.
Yu Lizhong, then president of East China Normal University, revealed that nyu shanghai is a fully established university with independent legal personality and a non-profit teaching institution. The school will set up a board of directors and a management team. According to the regulations of Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools, the president of a university must be a China citizen, and the teachers are recruited globally, and some teachers from East China Normal University and new york University will also participate.
20 1 1 During the two sessions, Zhang Jishun, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary of the Party Committee of East China Normal University, told the media that nyu shanghai would be a university with many tall buildings. "new york University is a building without walls, fully integrated into the city, and has grown up with the city of new york for decades." He said that nyu shanghai should also integrate schools into cities, and there are no boundaries.
20 1 1, nyu shanghai will start postgraduate training and high-end training first. In 20 13, the school plans to recruit the first batch of undergraduates worldwide. The first open majors are finance, international business and economics, all of which are the strongest majors in new york University. China students can enter universities through the college entrance examination in China and the interview in new york University. They will have 1-3 semesters of studying in the United States during their undergraduate years, and after graduation, they can get double certificates from nyu Shanghai and new york University. Nyu shanghai's preparatory press conference was held in Shanghai on April 5, 20 12. The press conference announced that Lieutenant General Yu Li, President of East China Normal University, will be the first president of nyu shanghai, and Jeffrey S.Lehman, former president of Cornell University in the United States and now founding dean of Peking University Transnational Law School, will be the executive vice president and CEO of nyu shanghai. Nyu shanghai is located in Lujiazui Finance and Trade Zone. This practice follows the example of new york University on Manhattan Island, the headquarters of new york University, and embodies the spirit of "a harmonious city". The traffic near the campus is convenient and it is easy to get there by public transport. Covering an area of 1 16 1 m2, the teaching building17th floor, with a usable area of 55,000 m2. The sixth floor of the teaching building, 5 1 teaching classroom, independent study room.
There are 13 teaching laboratories in the campus, including biology, physics, chemistry, computer, electronic engineering and multimedia. The library, which occupies the whole fourth floor, is rich in books, and teachers and students can log in to the global library database of new york University through the Internet.
Campus architecture is unique in the design of public space, taking students as the center and striving to build a compact and harmonious learning community. There is a student recreation room for table tennis and table tennis in the basement, as well as a student lounge, comfortable sofa benches and office tables and chairs, where you can rest, study and work. The student government has an independent office, the student community has meeting rooms with different functions, and the coffee shop on the second floor is a good place for leisure. There will be piano room, dance room, gym, yoga classroom and other fitness facilities on the eighth floor. The ubiquitous desks and chairs and the 24-hour library give teachers and students a space for full enjoyment and private communication.
In addition, audio-visual technology, teaching guidance technology, video conferencing and other technologies make the teachers and students of new york University in new york, Abu Dhabi and Shanghai closely connected, and teachers and students can log on to the global network of new york University at any campus. 20 12,1010.5, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, nyu shanghai, the first Chinese-American university with independent legal personality, was formally established in Shanghai.
The university is positioned as "a beneficial attempt to explore the construction of a high-level Chinese-foreign cooperative university". Educators in both China and the United States say that nyu shanghai is a "testing field" in the field of education between China and the United States, and it has also sown the seeds of hope for China to deepen its educational reform.
Yu Lizhong, the first president of nyu shanghai, has been the sixth president of East China Normal University since 2006, and previously served as the vice president of East China Normal University.
Yu Lizhong (1949 September 14-), male, professor, doctoral supervisor, winner of special government allowance of the State Council. 1949 was born in Shanghai on September 4th. A senior three graduate of Shanghai West Middle School, 1969, went to the countryside to work in Changshuihe Farm in Heilongjiang Province. 1978 September, admitted to the Department of Geography of East China Normal University, 1982 graduated with a bachelor's degree in science and stayed there. 20 12 in April, the press conference of nyu shanghai preparatory work announced that Yu Lizhong was the first principal of nyu shanghai. He is simple and kind, keeps pace with the times, and often communicates with students in Weibo and other channels. During his tenure as president of East China Normal University, he was deeply loved by students. 2013 At 9: 50 a.m. on August 2/KLOC-0, 295 freshmen from nyu shanghai lined up to enter the Siqun Hall of East China Normal University. Parents, school leaders and teachers who sat in the back of the auditorium for nearly an hour all stood up and applauded to welcome the first batch of students of this Sino-American International University.
Compared with the speech in less than a quarter of an hour, Jeffrey Lehman, former dean of the Law School of the University of Michigan and president of Cornell University 1 1, gave a speech for nearly half an hour, the core content of which was what kind of education these students from all corners of the country would receive and what kind of development they would have in nyu shanghai.