Change, The Early Days Of Private Universities

After the founding of PRC, the Chinese government made a massive restructuring of departments and majors among different colleges and universities and put forward institutional reform. Private colleges in this reform gradually disappeared. With Shanghai Datong University as an example, the process of the reform process focused on three aspects, namely the college system, the management system and the teaching system. In the first round of the restructuring, most of the liberal arts are closed down. In the second round, the whole university was closed down and merged into other public universities. And in this process, based on the special situation of the private universities, the attitudes of the teachers and the students have changed from the opposition to the agreement. In the aspect of the management system, the government took more indirect, ways. The government weakened the powers of the old institutions, established new management institutions and enlarged their members. In the aspect of the teaching system, the government abolished the old courses from KMT and promoted ideological and political education through various channels. At the same time, the government carried out curriculum reform and strengthened professional education in order to meet the needs of a planned economic system. Through these reforms, Datong University's characteristics as a private university gradually disappeared, and was put under unified management finally.