Meeting on the Establishment of AACSB-AoL System for SYSBS Undergraduate Program Successfully Held
?The meeting on the establishment of AACSB-AoL system for SYSBS undergraduate program was held on April 28-29, 2011. Executive Dean Li Zhongfei, Associate Dean Fu Zhengping, Associate Dean Wang Fan, chairmen from various departments, teacher representatives and staff of International Accreditation and Quality Improvement Office participated in the meeting.
?Executive Dean Li Zhongfei presided over the meeting on 28th. First, from a strategic point of view, he illustrated the significant influence that AACSB would have on the internationalization of SYSBS, the development of the teachers as well as the discipline construction. At the same time, he also pointed out that the AoL system would play an important role in improving the quality of SYSBS's current projects. In his opinion, the construction of AACSB-AoL system not only constituted a pivotal link in the process of acquiring international accreditation, but also contributed to enabling SYSBS to move closer to the leading international business schools and realize self-development.
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(Executive Dean Li Zhongfei was giving a speech during the meeting)
During the meeting, all the participants were introduced to the essence of AoL system and discussed issues concerning how to establish an AoL system with SYSBS characteristics. In the evening, teachers were grouped based on their departments and wrote drafts on AACSB-AoL system construction. All the teachers were invariably conscientious and most of them worked late into night for better constructing an AoL system in line with international standard and SYSU characteristics.
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(Teacher representatives were writing drafts in accordance with the accreditation requirements in the evening)???
On 29th, participants reported their work and each aired his/her own views. In the report, the purpose of undergraduate education and the characteristics of various departments were demonstrated in details. Thanks to their effort, the task of this meeting had been accomplished successfully, which contributes to reconstructing education scheme for undergraduates, figuring out learning goals and making curriculum plans.
(Associate Dean Fu Zhengping and Associate Dean Wang Fan in the meeting)
(Participants were discussing during the meeting)
This meeting marks that SYSBS has entered the substantial improvement phase of AACSB accreditation and it also lays a solid foundation for AoL system's follow-up construction.
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