At 8:30 a.m. on September 4, the appointment ceremony of Professor Yu Liandong and Professor Mao Haoran, respectively new deans of school of Control Science and Engineering and School of Foreign Studies, was successfully held in the lecture hall of Yifu building.
The ceremony was hosted by vice president Cao Yingchang, with president Hao Fang, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, vice president Zhang Lingling, and leaders and representatives of Secretary of Party Branches from the two Schools attending the ceremony.
Dean appointment ceremony
Speech by academician Hao Fang, President of China University of Petroleum
Vice President Cao Yingchang hosted the appointment ceremony
The appointment ceremony started from the announcement of appointment documents by vice president Zhang Lingling to hire Professor Mao Haoran as the Dean of the School of Foreign Studies.Then, Hao Fang, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and President of UPC awarded the letter of appointment to professor Mao Haoran .
Vice President Zhang Lingling announced appointment documents
President Hao Fang awarded the letter of appointment to Professor Mao Haoran
At the appointment ceremony, Dean Mao Haoran expressed his gratitude to school leaders, the Organization Department, the Personnel Department and other relevant departments, as well as the team members for their great efforts in the preparation. Dean Mao summed up the speech with six key phrases: highness, bigness, forging ahead, starting from details, clearness and newness. Highness refers to the high expectations of school leaders and high starting point of teachers. Bigness refers to leaders who think big and position themselves as servants instead of officers. Forging ahead is about going upwards, such as increasing doctoral disciplines. He also suggested that we should integrate internal training and external introducing to make continuous progress by explaining 1:1, 1+1 and 0-1 measures. Starting from details requires us to pay attention to ordinary teachers, who are also essential parts of the whole team, and every teacher who has contributed to the school should be treated with tenderness and respect. Clearness refers to openness and transparency. We should adhere to regulations stipulated, follow scientific procedures and stay away from academic politicization. Newness is about new thinking, knowing what thing we should do and what not, what can be delayed and what is a must. Finally, Dean Mao pointed out the importance of height, strength, speed and even warmth, with which to build a respectable university of respectable staffs and students. All conditions now are favorable, waiting for us to participate in.
Speech by Professor Mao Haoran, Dean of School of Foreign Studies.
Zhang Yongning, Secretary of the Party Committee of School of Foreign Studies, congratulated and welcomed Professor Mao Haoran on his appointment as the Dean. Zhang pointed out that the appointment fully reflects the school’s concern and support for the foreign studies, endowing us with great confidence to run School of Foreign Studies. Professor Mao Haoran visited our school from July 25 to 29. During this period, the team members reached consensus with Professor Mao in close communication between them on the development strategy and working ideas of the School. They even discussed issues about the 14th Five-Year Plan. Facing the new school, new mission and new journey, the faculty members have the confidence and determination to actively participate in teaching reform, scientific research and social services with enthusiasm and solid actions to provide strong support for the realization of the school’s strategic objectives. With everyone’s joint efforts, the current team will certainly achieve its mission to make a good start and build School of Foreign Studies into a respectable school, making the School a bridge which links international culture and Chinese voices.
Speech by Zhang Yongning, Party Secretary of School of Foreign Studies
President Hao Fang highly praised the high sense of responsibility, professionalism and the concept of “open” demonstrated by Professor Yu Liandong and Professor Mao Haoran in their work. Then he set four goals for the two new deans: Firstly, to build a clean, united and capable leader team together with theSchool Party Secretary; secondly, to lead the School to make progress in its culture development, teaching and research team building, and discipline construction, so as to continuously improve the quality of personnel training and scientific research level; thirdly, to realize the value of life by developing their own career,fourthly, to get familiar with the UPC and Qingdao as soon as possible, and to devote themselves into their work with more passion and higher efficiency.
President Hao Fang claimed that: firstly, the leadership of the School should work together to fully support the work of the Dean, be committed to talent training, scientific research and social services, so as to drive the development of the School; secondly, under the background of the UPC’s plan of upgrading basic general disciplines and the introduction of national top discipline leaders, all the teachers should take this opportunity to devote themselves to their work, thirdly, all relevant functional departments should fully support the work of the two schools and help them solve the problems encountered in their development; fourthly, all relevant departments should care about and support the two deans to facilitate their work and life.
President Hao Fang pointed out that the UPC will fully support the development of the school of Control Science and Engineering and the School of Foreign Studies, and will endeavor to obtain resources to improve the teaching and living conditions of the two schools. It is believed that under the leadership of the two deans and other personnelof the schools, with the joint efforts of all teachers and students, the two schools will achieve leapfrog development with faster speed and higher quality, thereby making greater contributions to the long-term development of the university.
According to the university’s discipline development strategy of consolidation, expansion and improvement. In the new stage of development of the School of Foreign Studies, the appointment of Professor Mao has brought new vitality and a broader international perspective to the School, together with new ideas and new enhancements brought to the construction of foreign language disciplines and majors. The School of Foreign Studies will stay true to the original aspiration and founding mission, continuing to strive in educating people and making contributions to the development of the university.
Let us learn more about the Dean Mao Haoran.
Prof. Mao, born in 1972, Ph.D of English language and literature, doctoral supervisor, once served as the Dean of College of Foreign Languages in HuaQiao University. He enjoys many titles, such as executive editor of Translating China, chief editor of International Rhetoric Studies, president of Chinese Rhetoric Society of the World, vice president of Comparative Rhetoric Society of China, vice president of Fujian Foreign Language Association. He is also the member of Expert Committee of Peking University Press, Fujian Foreign Affairs translator, reviewer and editorial board member of more than 20 journals including SSCI, A&HCI and CSSCI, expert for major projects evaluation, such as national social science fund projects, social science of Ministry of Education, China’s post-doctoral fund and humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of education, visiting professor of National University of Defense Technology and University of International Business and Economics, review expert of National Teaching Contest for the English Teachers, English reviewer of Applied Linguistics.
Prof. Mao has long been engaged in the study of discourse rhetoric and experimental psycholinguistics. With more than 100 journal articles published in Cognitive Linguistics, Journal of Language & Politics, Discourse Studies, Discourse & Communication, Intercultural Pragmatics, Foreign Language Teaching and Research, Journal of Foreign Languages and Contemporary Linguistics. Besides, he has published 10 monographs, editorials and translating works, and presided over 10 projects, including national social sciences, social sciences of Ministry of education and Fujian social sciences. He has been awarded “Fujian social sciences excellent achievement award”, “Fujian teaching achievement award”, “Fujian new century excellent talents” and “Quanzhou second level excellent talents”. Previously, he has undertaken more than 20 undergraduate and graduate courses, and also established one of the top 10 public education websites, “Haoran examination website” in China and eight official education websites.
Translator: Zhao Yanhan, Xiu Wenxing, Dai Zhenshan, Wang Di
Proofreader: Fu Xiao
Tutor: Fu Xiao
