Author(s)

Zuo Qianwen ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Education, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, China

Corresponding Author

Zuo Qianwen

ABSTRACT

Mission is an important duty and task, and the mission of the university is the concrete embodiment and external form of "what kind of people the university cultivates". Universities are the product of social development, and their missions are constantly diversified with the development of society. It is recognized that universities have the three major missions of "talent training, scientific research, and social service", which are not innate to universities, but have been given in different historical periods. The mission of the University defines the direction of the university's development and reflects the functions of the university. From cultivating talents to scientific research, and then expanding to serve the society, the evolution of university functions reflects the new requirements that social development constantly puts forward for higher education. With the expansion of the scale of schools and the influence of education marketization, China's universities are violating the basic mission, and the goal is constantly moving closer to the market, so that university education is getting farther and farther away from the mission of the university, and returning to the essence of educating has become an urgent problem to be solved.

KEYWORDS

University; university mission; higher education; college students

CITE THIS PAPER

Zuo Qianwen, The Mission of the Contemporary University. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2023) Vol. 7: 105-112. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2023.070518.

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