The SEM general conference was held in classroom 313 on the day of Oct. 30th ,2014. All the faculty and staff participated in the meeting, which was conducted by associate dean Liu Mingzhu.
At first, the associate dean Liu Mingzhu published the announcement of starting teachers annual assessment which will be totally finished by Nov. 30th. Then related materials about the Fourth Plenary Session of the Thirteenth Central Committee and campus security & stability during APEC period was strongly emphasized. Related department personnel and staff was required to strengthen the management in public places and exclude the potential safety hazards.
Next, the dean Wang Wenbin expressed his congratulations to school’s successfully holding the national MBA case competition and winning the honor of second place in final competition. Besides, the school faculty volleyball team finishing runner-up and four school teachers’ attending and finishing Marathon was also mentioned. For another, the school’s enrollment problem and financial distress on EMBA and MBA program was reported. Facing with such severe challenges, some measures was introduced, such as the adjustment of orientation fees for MBA and EMBA students. Additionally, the dean expressed that the school will firmly carry forward the AACSB accreditation process to improve the education quality of SEM, based on which the AACSB and AOL committee was to be established.
Finally, the director of International Accreditation Office--Zhao Xia, gave a report to all faculty about current situation and process of AACSB accreditation, including that the new English Website of SEM has been established in the end of last year; the equality application for AACSB international accreditation was passed in Aug. Additionally, the following task assignment for faculty and related staff was also simply introduced.
