As late August arrived, Chu Kochen Honors College(CKC) welcomed a vibrant new chapterwith the enrollment of the Class of 2025. To help the freshmen adapt to university life smoothly and embark on a journey of self-growth , CKC has organized a series of orientation activities. With clear guidance and a supportive community, CKC will assist freshmen in navigating a sea of opportunities, exploring diverse paths, and sailing toward academic excellence with ambition and purpose.
On August 27, the 2025 Freshman Assembly of CKC was held at the Lecture Hall of the Main Library in Zijingang Campus. New CKCers gathered to celebrate the official start of their academic journey. At the assembly, Vice Dean Lu Xin reviewed CKC’s development history, introduced its seven major programs, three minor tracks, and unique educational features, andelaborated on the overall cultivating mission.
Ms.Tao Anna, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Secretary of the Disciplinary Inspection Commission of the College, focused on the CKC’s integrated cultivation plan of teaching and ideological and political education. Together with Lu, she highlighted CKC’s 10 majoradvantages, including tutorial mentorship, research-education integration, and mission-oriented guidance.Tao encouraged the students to be self-reliant, self-disciplined, and self-strengthening in dealing with others and matters, to maintain an inclusive and critical mind when engaging with others, to devote themselves toadvancing our nation’s strategic frontiers, and to make outstanding contributions through innovation. She concluded by inspiring students to find their most brilliant course in CKC’s boundless academic ocean.
Later, the 2025 freshman counselors—Teachers Lin Wei, Duan Weiyin, Wang Yuzhuo, and Chen Yiduo—met with all new students. They respectively introduced their work in student growth, psychological well-being, Party building and other key areasstudent affairs. They also extended their heartfelt wishes:
“We hope every student will keep in mind the College motto, ‘Entertaining lofty ambitions and pursuing eternal excellence’, bravely pursue your ideals, dedicate yourself to the urgent needs of national strategies, and become CKCers who have directions in eyes, ideals in heart, and strengthinsteps !”
On August 23, CKC successfullyheld the Training Program Interpretation Meeting for the Class of 2025 at the North Teaching Building and Graduate Building of Zijingang Campus. Professors responsible for each class, Teacher Zhang Zhiying from CKC’s Teaching Affairs Office and teachers from the teaching departments of various professional colleges interpreted the training programs of each platform for the new students at their respective venues. The training program, as a standardized document guiding teaching organization and quality evaluation, serves as the foundation for talent cultivation. Through this interpretation, new CKC students gained an initial understanding of their platform’s objectives, requirements, curriculum system, and credit distribution—helping them make informed plans for their undergraduate studies.
On the same day, the 2025 Class Meetings and Group-Building Sessions were also successfully held. Head teachers, full-time and part-time counselors, senior mentors, and freshmen gathered for in-depth exchanges, Students’ slightly inexperienced self-introductions and teachers’ serious teachings assembled the connection between heart and heart together. In the days ahead, they will become companions who help each other to develop a united class atmosphere.
Teachers’ guidance is like a light which illuminate the fog on the sea of study, but the voyage of exploration ultimately belongs to each student. There is no fixed paradigm fot life in the university. Only by staying proactive, thinking independently, embracing challenges and respecting the truth and innovation can they find their own direction and write a new chapter in the era of CKCers’ carrying forward the past and opening up the future.
