There was an incredible exclamation from the audience. After a short period of silence, the entire open-air press conference burst into thunderous applause. Many parents were so excited that they were beyond words.
Even some senior high school students from poor families who were watching the live broadcast thought they were dreaming when they saw this. They slapped themselves hard and realized that this was not a dream. They immediately screamed with excitement.
Students across the country are excited, especially those from poor families.
"This is an anomaly. If the education world is disturbed by him like this, there will be a big earthquake." A senior person in the education world said with emotion.
"I don't know how many high-quality students can be grabbed just by free tuition. As long as the teaching staff is strong, outstanding poor students will definitely choose Coastline University. How can the teaching staff with an annual budget of 165 billion be any worse?"
"Yes, even if I don't know the salary, I would like to work and teach at Coastline University."
"He spends 165 billion like this? You can't spend it like this even if you have money!"
"The problem lies in money, and it can only be solved with money. Yes, but the problem is that only Shoreline University in the world can solve it with money. It is impossible for other universities to do it."
"It really proves the popular saying on the Internet that if you have money, you can really do whatever you want."
All the people in the education field who attended the meeting were filled with emotion. In fact, they had previously confirmed that Ye Hua would probably cause some ups and downs in the education field, but they never expected that he would be so powerful right away that he would bring down the whole education industry, especially the higher education industry.
It stirred up great changes.
More than 5,000 parents and students at the scene were very excited, and the applause was endless.
If other private universities told parents that tuition was free, they would never believe it. Private universities are generally run as businesses and want to make money.
But Coastline University is obviously a non-profit private university, and with this kind of funding budget, even if it is given a hundred years, the university itself may not be able to meet the income to maintain expenses. Free tuition is completely different from Ye Hua's mouth.
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Finally, the thunderous applause lasted for several minutes, and Ye Hua said again: "Second, in terms of employment orientation, we must also pay special attention to research-oriented talents. As long as you can achieve success in your studies,
I am not afraid of not having jobs. To be honest, just because of the development of Coastline Group, there are more than 150,000 jobs available. I have been looking for talents all over the world, but I am almost going crazy. There are none, so I can only run my own university."
The whole audience laughed at the last sentence, and everyone was caught off guard. Netizens laughed even more. Principal Ye just pretended to compete and no one else had anything to worry about.
In the future, some people will ask under what circumstances Coastline University was established. Well, it is like this.
"Third, we must create a mechanism that is conducive to the transformation of scientific research results, so that people who engage in scientific research can also become rich, and the phenomenon that 'engaging in scientific research means poverty' can be eliminated. At least we, Coastline University, will eliminate this phenomenon." Ye
Hua said this with an extremely firm tone, which again attracted overwhelming applause from the audience.
In the following reporter's question-and-answer session, the most concerning issue was how Coastline University's terrifying 165 billion budget expenditure would be spent. And above this focus, an even more concerning issue was the issue of university scientific research funding.
In this regard, Ye Hua answered these questions from the media one by one.
University staff are relatively complex, but they are mainly divided into three types of positions: teaching positions, management positions and work staff positions.
Coastline University has established an on-campus research fund pool, and all funds applied for project research are allocated from this fund pool. There are more than 20 projects involving the decentralization of scientific research accounting budgets, but they are limited to the field of basic science and technology research because they involve exemption from review.
This is the most unique system.
In other categories, such as the School of Economics and Management and other sub-disciplines, all funds need to be reviewed, and the funds are relatively small. At the same time, students who choose such majors are not exempt from tuition. Tuition exemption is limited to the field of scientific research. Coastline University certainly does not lack this.
Money, but also to highlight the emphasis on basic research, mainly to train scientists and engineers, not white-collar workers.
If Coastline Group didn't also need white-collar jobs, Ye Hua would actually want to cut off these branches and directly establish a purer university of science and technology.
The biggest highlight is that the adjustment of funds is linked to the professional titles of scientific and educational personnel. The teacher levels of Coastline University are divided into "levels one to thirteen", which are divided into four categories from high to low: professor, associate professor, lecturer and teaching assistant.
Among them, professors are divided into "one to four levels". At Coastline University, the first among them is the tenured professor, who is also an academician. However, academician universities do not have the right to evaluate and establish, and the conditions are extremely high. In short, they can become tenured professors at Coastline University.
Professors must be academicians or top scholars in the world.
Tenured professors guarantee the independence of outstanding researchers. As long as they obtain the title of tenured professor and do not do anything extraordinary, such as academic fraud, serious criminal offenses, etc., Coastline University can hardly fire them. Tenured professors are completely free to research the topics they want.
Within one year, you can have up to 300 million yuan in research funds without review. After application, the research fund pool will be allocated directly without review. As long as this benefit is not used for secondary operations, the school cannot directly reject it.
The so-called secondary operation, to put it bluntly, means that the tenured professor takes the research funds and uses them for other purposes to third parties. Once investigated, it will be regarded as academic fraud, and the tenured professor and his benefits will be revoked or even fired.
In addition to the above-mentioned benefits, high salaries and long vacations or even full-year vacations can help you focus more on research. However, this system, which is based on the tenured professor system in the United States, will also cause professors who have stayed in this position to be ineffective.
, and the gradual saturation of tenured professorships.
But having said that, among schools of a slightly higher standard, let alone the Coastline University run by Ye Hua, it is aimed at the world's top universities. There are very few people who live a retired life every day after getting the title of tenured professor. It's really
Very few.
At this time, a tenured professor will have a large group of student postdocs waiting for you to provide him with food. Furthermore, there will be evaluations for distinguished professors or outstanding professors. There are still members outside the school who need to evaluate this award.
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Even for those super-powerful people who have won everything from the Nobel Prize to the Fields Medal and the Turing Award, they still have to think about how future generations will evaluate them when they write history. Academic research
There is no end.
There is no doubt that this is an unparalleled attraction for the world's top researchers. Just imagine that it is equivalent to receiving more than 40 million US dollars in unconditional funding every year. With this money, you can study whatever topics you want to study.
, which is a treatment not found in universities around the world.
Moreover, this is a grant application without review. Shoreline University now has nothing but money.
Some basic scientific research projects costing hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars cannot be supported by other universities or scientific research institutions, and capital has little interest in basic scientific research. However, Coastline University is definitely the most likely to do so because of its money.
, rich!
After tenured professors, there are first-level professors, who are also academicians. They are national treasure-level talents. Many universities do not have academician-level professors, and the total number of second-level professors is relatively small. Third-level and fourth-level professors are the main body of full professors in universities.
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First-level professors can enjoy review-free research funding of less than 100 million yuan within one year. After application, the research fund pool will be directly allocated without review. As long as this benefit is not used for secondary operations, the school cannot directly deny it. This is
It works for other professors.
Second-level professors can enjoy 70 million yuan in review-free research funding.
Third-level and fourth-level professors can enjoy 30 million yuan in review-free research funding.
Levels 5 to 7 are the three levels of associate professors from high to low. They have different salaries and benefits, and all enjoy an exemption of 10 million yuan in research funding.
Levels 8 to 10 are the three levels of lecturers from high to low. Other benefits are different. They all enjoy an exemption of 3 million yuan in research funding.
Level 11 to level 13 are the three levels of teaching assistants from high to low. Other benefits are different. They all enjoy 1 million yuan in research funding without review.
Of course, there is no real result in any professional title that can tell the level of a scholar. Assistant professors are not necessarily worse than full professors. Moreover, Ye Hua’s ultimate goal is to recruit young geniuses from around the world. At that time, students were better than teachers.
There will definitely be some outstanding ones, and there will even be many. Therefore, the teacher evaluation system of Coastline University is completely different from that of traditional universities in China.
In existing universities in China, as long as a professor is hired, he can be evaluated step by step from lecturer to professional title. Even if he does nothing, he can become an associate professor before retirement.
Coastline University is almost independent of itself. The assessment criteria for the appointment of professors at the university are mainly based on years of experience and the quality of academic achievements. Generally, teachers are required to advance to a higher level every five years. If they cannot be awarded a higher-level professional title, the teacher will be dismissed.
Dismissal.
This point is learned from European and American universities. There is no doubt that it is a cruel system of "promote or leave". For dismissed teachers, Coastline University will give them a year and a half of buffer time to find a new job.
Professor promotion is based on academic achievements. The core of professor promotion at Coastline University is that ability takes precedence over qualifications, and level takes precedence over diplomas.
The judging indicators are based on published papers and books, but there are no quantitative restrictions or word count requirements. Einstein's paper is only a few pages, the photoelectric effect won the Nobel Prize, and the theory of relativity is only a few pages, but it has a profound impact on modern physics.
The significance is so great that it needs no elaboration.
It is worth mentioning that the role of interpersonal relationships in Coastline University is generally very small, or even negligible. Without real hard work, no matter how hard you try to build relationships, it will be useless, because Ye Hua of Coastline University has the final say. Unless you can
Even so, Ye Hua would never do anything beyond his academic principles.
In addition, Coastline University's research fund pool is also open to students at the school. Yes, students can also apply, but students' applications for funds for research need to be reviewed. There is no exemption mechanism.
Even graduate students may have their own laboratories. This will not be a new thing at Coastline University in the future. In a word, as long as you prove to the school that you are awesome enough, other schools will not be a problem at Coastline University.
