On October 17, ShanghaiTech University held the Fourth Meeting of the Second University Governing Board. Members of the University Governing Board, Ding Zhongli, Chen Qun, Zhou Xiaochuan, Fu Chengyu, Zhang Jie, Gong Ke, Jiang Mianheng and Li Ruxing attended the session. Members of the university leadership, Yin Jie, Zhu Zhiyuan, Ding Hao, Wu Qiang and Jiang Ge attended the session as non-voting participants.
The Board members reviewed the report by Executive Vice President & Provost Yin Jie on the recent development progress of ShanghaiTech, and fully affirmed the achievements in the past year in different domains including serving the national development strategy, enhancing faculty development, optimizing student training, driving science and technology innovation, promoting technology transfer, and strengthening the leadership of CPC. The Board members also reviewed the report on Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center.
The Board members reviewed the planning of the Institute of 2060 and approved the appointment of Zhu Zhiyuan as Dean of the Institute of 2060.
The Board members reviewed the draft of ShanghaiTech’s 2022 financial budget.
The University Governing Board believe that ShanghaiTech has made remarkable achievements in the past year, and has a promising development path. The Board suggested that ShanghaiTech should make disciplines more focused, actively get involved in the National Laboratory system, pay great attention to the influence by AI technology in student training, and strengthen the discipline deployment in serving the national energy development strategy.
The University Governing Board hope that ShanghaiTech can always be committed to its mission and vision, emphasize its unique characteristics, achieve more developments with higher quality and speed, and keep making progress to realize its original goal of serving the national development strategy and cultivating students with technology innovation capability.