Many colleges and universities ＂open their arms＂ to enter the school form to realize the ＂two-way trip＂ between universities and the public.

CCTV News:Recently, whether the university campus should be open to the public has aroused extensive discussion. In order to promote knowledge sharing, many colleges and universities have recently changed into school forms and adopted more open and flexible management measures to facilitate public visits. Let’s watch together.　

This winter, many tourists came to Tsinghua University No.2 School Gate and Auditorium to take photos and punch in, feeling the heavy sense of history.

Visitor Wang Jiashuo, a student of Jintang Primary School in Dandong City, Liaoning Province:I came in by appointment. Simon came in and walked all the way to tsinghua campus. I feel that there are some historical details here.

Visiting tourist Zhao Sufang:My husband and I are alumni of Tsinghua, so it’s just a holiday to bring our children, so that they can feel the environment when we used to go to school and some changes now.

It is understood that since the summer vacation in 2023, Tsinghua University and Peking University have started to promote campus opening in an orderly manner, and they are open to the public during winter and summer vacations, weekends and holidays.

On the eve of New Year’s Day in 2024, both colleges and universities announced that they would further expand the scale of campus opening, and the time for receiving tourists into the school was one hour earlier than the previous morning and afternoon. Tsinghua University will also increase the number of people who can make an appointment to visit the public campus on weekends and holidays to more than 12,000 per day, which is about 50% higher than before, and will explore the opening of the campus on weekdays, so as to gradually keep the campus in a normal and open state.

This winter vacation, Tsinghua University has specially planned four excellent sightseeing routes and six red explanation routes, and organized more than 200 student volunteers to provide free explanation services. In addition, it also provides an appointment service for primary and secondary school students to visit the school.

Cheng Zhengyu, Deputy Secretary of Tsinghua University Youth League Committee:Now, the Tsinghua Art Museum and the Science Museum are also open to the public. Universities are actually people’s universities, and we are also an open university.

In Peking University, the reporter saw that some tourists learned about the scenery story of Peking University through the voice explanation in the "Visit Peking University" applet.

Visitors Wang Yueting, a student of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications:I feel that every building has its own history and every tree has its own story. I can feel the strong humanistic environment.

In order to better serve the needs of visitors, Peking University is independently developing a service platform for entering and leaving the school, which mainly serves all kinds of visitors to enter the school conveniently in various ways and conditions. With the coming of winter vacation, Peking University has also formulated the service guarantee measures of "study tour".

Wang Liya, Director of the General Office of Peking University Student Affairs Department:Fully tap the educational elements of the campus in history, culture, popular science, practice, etc., and each of our routes may be designed with at least eight to ten classic points.

It is reported that up to now, Peking University, Tsinghua University, China Renmin University, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University, Fudan University, Tongji University, Wuhan University and other universities have issued documents saying that social workers can enter the campus by making an appointment, registering to enter the school or directly swiping their ID cards.

Strengthening management to cope with passenger flow in colleges and universities with "scenic spots" on campus

The situation in schools is also different. How and to what extent is the university campus open? Colleges and universities need to comprehensively consider many factors such as school resource supply capacity and campus area. In recent years, some well-known universities have experienced a process of continuous adjustment and improvement in management in dealing with tourists’ visits, and accumulated some experience. Let’s go and see how they do it.

Sakura is a business card of Wuhan University. In the spring of March, punching in cherry blossoms in Wuda University has been a popular item for spring tourism on the Internet for many years.

In 2016, Wuhan University issued an announcement to cancel the fee-based ticket system for cherry blossom viewing season and implement online booking and free cherry blossom viewing. The number of people who make an appointment to enjoy cherry blossoms in school is also dynamically managed. In the first year of implementing the appointment system, that is, in 2016, the number of people who make an appointment to enjoy cherry blossoms in Wuhan University is limited to 10,000 on weekdays and 20,000 on weekends. By 2023, the number of people who have reserved cherry blossoms has increased to 15,000 on weekdays and 30,000 on weekends.

However, romantic cherry blossoms also bring "troubles" to the campus of Wuhan University. From March to April every year, on the way to class, there are many tourists on Sakura Avenue. Visitors visiting the teaching site will also interfere with teachers and students. The most disgusting thing is uncivilized flower viewing.

Since 2018, Wuhan University has added a "face recognition" system, and the official Weibo has also opened an "exposure platform for uncivilized behavior" to announce the capture of uncivilized behavior. During the cherry blossom period, Wu Da stipulated that beverage sales services should be provided at designated places and mobile toilets should be set up. At the same time, the teaching, scientific research, office buildings (halls, rooms, research institutes) and student dormitories in the school are refused to be visited by the public, and the student canteen does not provide public dining services.

Xiamen University, which also has a picturesque reputation, has also faced the trouble of "campus tour". As early as 2012, Xiamen University implemented a "travel restriction order", which did not allow tour groups to enter the campus. Most canteens did not accept tourists and no longer accepted cash consumption. Ordinary tourists had to register at the school gate before entering the school.

Since October 2018, Xiamen University has launched a visitor reservation system. Off-campus personnel need to make an appointment to visit the school in advance, and they can only enter the school after passing the identity documents and face recognition. Xiamen University also made it clear that the scheduled visit time is from 12:30 to 14:00 on weekdays, with no more than 1,000 people per day; No more than 5,000 people per day during winter and summer vacations and weekends; There are no more than 10000 people on national holidays every day.

Scholars say that universities are "scenic spots". In the face of this social governance problem, how to find the value consensus of all parties needs the common answer of the whole society.

Zheng Yaomin, Vice President of the Institute of Culture and Tourism Development, Beijing Technology and Business University:From the perspective of this kind of university with tourism attributes, we should think about several aspects, one is the carrying capacity of the environment, and whether the service supply of the school can keep up, and the third may be the impact on normal teaching. If the passenger flow exceeds the threshold, whether there will be some noise outside the classroom or whether the management cost will increase is also a factor that the school will consider.

Ministry of Education: Improve the Mechanism to Balance the Opening and Internal Management of University Campus

University is a symbol of culture and spirit. Open university visits can give full play to the educational function of universities, but they also need to be opened in an orderly and scientific manner within the scope of campus tolerance, and constantly improve the management level and openness level. On January 2nd, the Ministry of Education also gave a reply on the opening of university campus.

On January 2nd, official website, the Ministry of Education, gave a reply to the proposal No.04329 (Education No.428) of the First Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, on the proposal on practicing the important concept of people’s city, serving urban and regional development through campus opening, and strengthening the construction of socialist spiritual civilization.

In its reply, the Ministry of Education said that it is of positive significance for the university campus to be better open to the public, which is conducive to the university’s better integration into and service to society. The Ministry of Education will further study with relevant departments, establish and improve the prevention and control mechanism of campus security risks, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of colleges and universities according to law. At the same time, it will guide colleges and universities to improve relevant management systems, so as to achieve a balance between campus opening and internal management without affecting the normal order of schools and the study and life of teachers and students.

Let the university campus open better in benign interaction.

Rationality, openness and tolerance are important ideas of modern universities. We see that more and more colleges and universities are optimizing the openness of their campuses through refined management, and achieving a harmonious balance between the social service function of universities and teaching and scientific research work. In order to achieve better opening, universities also need the "two-way trip" of the public, and they should pay attention to civilization when entering the school, abide by the school regulations and maintain the order in the school. I believe that in this benign interaction, the university campus can better meet the legitimate needs of people outside the school to study and visit, and ensure that the teaching activities in the school are not affected.