Making another Splendid Achievement Hand in Hand: The 11th Mentorship Ceremony of the 2016 Academic Year of the University Successfully Held
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?? On the afternoon of September 25, we held the mentorship ceremony of the 2016 academic year at Room B102 in the administrative building of eastern campus in the university town. The Party Committee Secretary Qi Xiaoping, and Vice Secretary Dai Honghui of our school, Zhang Yifang, the Minister of Information Management Department of the Education Development and Alumni Affairs Office, Lan Qi, the counselor for 2014’ undergraduates, 49 career mentors and all 2014’ undergraduates (about 200) attended the ceremony. ??
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????Mr. Qi Giving a Speech????
After a solemn school song, a speech was given by Mr. Qi. He first offered a warm welcome and sincere thanks to all the alumni who always support the school’s work. He then introduced the work of the school and the university have done in the past year and encouraged the students to grasp the opportunity for communication with mentors, and to study hard to find their own development way.??
In the course of the ceremony, the video for reviewing the 2015 academic year plan of career mentors showed the information of mentors and the valuable memories between mentors and students of the past year. Everyone was touched when seeing the travel, the tea meeting and the dinner party joined together by mentors and students. The latter also expressed their appreciation to the school and teachers by the video.??
??Huang Xunjing, as our alumni and the representative of mentors this year, shared his ideas on the theme “We should feel gratitude for yesterday, focus on students’ development today, and remain committed to improvement tomorrow.” Lu Bin recalled his experiences and gave several pieces of advice to students. He was a student of Mr. Huang in 2006 when the career mentorship program was implemented for the first year and now is also a mentor. Yang Rui, the representative of 2013’ undergraduates, shared her gains and growth in the last year when she took part in the program, and expressed gratitude for her mentor’s teaching and caring. Chen Xiaoyun, the representative of 2014’ undergraduates, shared her experience of choosing mentor and visiting alumni.??
?? Huang Yucheng, Xu Qilin and Ye Huan, 2014’ undergraduates, have respectively added joy to the ceremony to celebrate the inheritance and development of the program for 11 years. They won acclaim from the audience through their performance. Amid the cheerful song of Mountains and Waters, the most noticeable part of the ceremony began. It was the acknowledging ritual. Students bowed to mentors, then presented gifts and took photos together. The scene was much moving, cosy and warm. ??
??Photo of Mentorship Ceremony??
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The alumni in attendance expressed their sincere gratitude to the college for providing the career mentorship program. This platform, on one hand, offered an opportunity for them to contribute to their alma mater and the students in school, and on the other hand, helped cultivate many excellent management elites for companies. 2014’ undergraduates also felt lucky to be a part of the management school, the program of which provides them a platform to contact with society and grow rapidly. They also thanked their mentors who help them enter and explore society. Those mentors are not only outstanding predecessors and instructors, but also adorable alumni. Impressed by the generosity of mentors in communication, students felt proud of their alumni and wished that they could be as outstanding as their alumni, in hopes of taking up responsibility and contributing to students of the management school.??
??The Career Mentorship Program, implemented by the Sun Yat-sen Management School since 2006, is a program that instructs junior undergraduates in vocational development and professional practice. It is designed to promote students’ comprehensive development in terms of virtues, intelligence, sports, arts and diligence. That is how we improve students’ career competitiveness to meet the demand for qualified talents in the society. Our social resources have helped us a lot to launch this innovative program. A total of 628 alumni and 2,157 students participated in the program, which has gone through ten years since the very beginning. On May 18, 2014, the Career Mentorship Program was awarded the Excellent Project of University on Student Affairs Management in Guangdong Province. Only this program won this honor in our university. It is the enthusiasm and commitment of our alumni who work as mentors that students of our school benefit greatly from, grade by grade. The ever-improving program provides a broader vision for students to contact the society and offers useful advice and help from different perspectives. By connecting alumni and students together, this talent development program promises a bright future for all parts involved.
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