Chapter 151 The frustrated Senior Brother Chen

To be honest, Chen Zhuoyang has not been doing well recently. He actually feels that he has made many things simple.

In a sense, colleges and universities are the most fertile ground for the development of factions.

The teacher-student relationship and the relationship between classmates can often form a natural alliance.

As for why there is an alliance, two words, competition!

In the eyes of outsiders, colleges and universities are ivory towers, but in fact, internal competition is no different from society.

Needless to say, there is competition among universities.

The most significant difference between Chinese higher education and other countries is that the more powerful the school, the cheaper the tuition.

985, the tuition fee for most undergraduate majors in double first-class universities is only 5,000 yuan, even if it is a second-class school, it is not much more expensive.

But for those three colleges whose names I have never heard of, the tuition fees range from 15,000 to 30,000 yuan, and some even have tuition fees of 50,000 yuan a year.

As we all know, first-class schools are definitely many times better than the three universities in terms of teaching staff and various hardware configurations, and these require huge amounts of money to maintain, but the tuition is several times less than those of the three universities... …

It is generally accepted that the saying that cheap products are not good products is not only ineffective when it comes to college education resources, but also directly the opposite.

The funding gap will naturally come from subsidies. After all, high-quality teaching resources cannot be generated out of thin air.

But there is only so much funding for education and scientific research every year. If your family has more, others will have less.

Therefore, most of the presidents of powerful universities are academicians. Even if they are not academicians, if you check their resumes, you will find how brilliant these big guys have been.

In short, the principal must not only manage effectively internally, but also at least speak well externally, so that he can have the confidence to fight for more when dividing the cake...

In the same way, after external competition is over, there will also be competition between various colleges within universities.

If you look carefully at the deans of dominant majors in various universities, you will find that most deans are not the most powerful ones in the college, or even the most powerful ones. And generally speaking, they are only three or four. A ten-year-old middle-aged man.

Why?

Because such a person is the most suitable. And the candidate is often recommended by the upper management and internal staff after various discussions.

You must know that the resources of each secondary college under the school are allocated by the school. Middle-aged people in their thirties and forties may become deputy school-level leaders in the future after working in the administrative position of dean for a few years.

In addition, the home department is the dominant major of the school. If a deputy school-level leader is trained, when the school allocates resources in the future, it will naturally be more inclined to the college that trained him.

This is also in line with maximizing the interests of factions. Therefore, advantaged colleges in universities are often very united internally, because everyone compromises with each other to make the cake bigger and maximize interests.

However, the logic of some less dominant secondary colleges within the school is different.

Such a major may not have had a school-level cadre in the past ten years, so it naturally does not have a strong say when allocating resources within the school.

In addition, the professional strength is not dominant, and the resources cannot compete with other advantaged departments rated A or above, so we can only focus on internal fighting and fight for those resources within the college.

Yes, the logic of competition within universities is actually no different from that of the international community. The worse the departments, the more serious the internal strife. This is similar to the poorer the place, the more chaotic it is.

These are things that Chen Zhuoyang never experienced when he was at Yanbei University.

After all, the volunteer code of the School of Mathematics at Yanbei University is 001. It is one of the majors in Mathematics at Yanbei University, and everyone within it is relatively united.

Not to mention anything else, there are currently only 42 academicians in the Chinese Academy of Mathematical Sciences, and Yanbei University alone has seven.

But Jinzhou University is different. Since the School of Mathematics was separated from the School of Science, its development can only be said to be unsatisfactory.

Pulling out the internal major ratings, you can see that there are many A-category subjects, most of which are concentrated in engineering. The mathematics major only received a B grade.

Of course, it doesn’t mean that B is bad, it is ranked among the top 20%-30% in the country, but there is no way, who makes other majors good?

Among a bunch of A+/A/A-, a B is very inconspicuous. Not to mention that none of Jinzhou University’s double first-class subjects are related to mathematics.

So even before the official class started, Chen Zhuoyang already felt that something was not quite right.

For example, during the induction training for new teachers, it can be clearly felt that several new colleagues have a lukewarm attitude towards him.

Today's new semester teaching arrangement work meeting, he came early deliberately, intending to take an opportunity to report to Director Xu of the Teaching and Research Department.

He learned this from Qiao Yu.

As a newcomer, he plans to focus on teaching again, so it would be a good idea to have more exchanges with the director of the Teaching and Research Department.

Then he felt something was wrong again.

Director Xu, who was quite enthusiastic towards him before, has also become very strange in his attitude. It's not that he just shows his face directly, but it's obvious that he doesn't have any patience, and what he says to him becomes cliche.

It’s not that Chen Zhuoyang is sensitive. People who can become PhDs in mathematics will definitely not have a low IQ. People with a high IQ are often more sensitive to changes in the attitudes of the people around them.

Of course, some people think that people who are good at mathematics are not so magical. Many times when they are in contact with such people, they feel that the other person has low emotional intelligence, like a nerd who has lost his mind in reading... This is indeed possible.

But the greater possibility is that the guy is being arrogant, or that the damn guy doesn't regard the person he is communicating with as a similar person, especially when he feels that the person he is communicating with seems to be talking about extremely stupid topics.

In short, this has already made Chen Zhuoyang feel very uncomfortable. This is probably the reason why Qiao Yu can make Chen Zhuoyang excited by drawing pictures of cakes casually.

After all, in this era, for a doctor, thirty years old is just the beginning. He is still considered a young man, and he still needs to save face.

Not to mention that after graduating from Yanbei International Mathematics Research Center, Chen Zhuoyang has clearly felt that he is actually very good.

Although it is said that he was able to come to Tianjin University this time because of the favor of his mentor. However, there was also a qualification review and assessment process before officially joining the job.

Especially in the academic evaluation interview and defense meeting, it can be said that his performance was definitely among the best.

Similarly, when he tried out the lecture content, he was well prepared. It can even be said that the moment he stood on the podium, Chen Zhuoyang was really passionate and could even be said to have performed beyond his level.

This must make him feel that he is really suitable for the podium. Whether it is the PPT of the teaching content or the teaching method, he feels that he can give himself a score of 90 or above.

And these are all audio and video recordings. It’s not his fault. The Oxford returnees who participated in the interview and assessment with him did not perform as well as him in terms of professional theoretical literacy, academic expression, and logical thinking ability when doing academic defenses.

When answering questions, he kept saying "um, ah, and then..." which made him feel uncomfortable.

The same was true during the lecture. Chen Zhuoyang even wondered whether the competitor had made any lesson plans. It was obvious that he seemed to have missed the point.

Just like that, the other party passed the review and became the new lecturer of the School of Mathematics like him.

To be honest, this future colleague has become a source of confidence for Chen Zhuoyang. If someone with this level can come to Mathematics College as a lecturer, Chen Zhuoyang feels that he will have no problem at all.

Even if the other person is just not good at speaking, maybe not good at lecturing, but has strong scientific research ability, Chen Zhuoyang feels that since he is a lecturer and not a researcher, the ability to express himself in lectures is at least as important as scientific research.

So he really couldn't figure out why he felt that this colleague seemed to get along well with everyone. He wanted to get along well with everyone, but everyone seemed to be on guard against him.

Just like in today's meeting, he just saw several people looking at their mobile phones. So he took out his mobile phone and took a look after feeling the vibration.

As a result, he was called out by the deputy dean who was speaking. What the hell is this?

Of course, it doesn't matter if he complains in his heart. If the vice-dean asks him to speak, he still has to say it.

Fortunately, although he was looking at his mobile phone, he also heard what the deputy dean said just now. As a new teacher, he wanted to tell everyone about the planned teaching work in the new semester.

This is obviously not a problem for Chen Zhuoyang. Naturally, he has no fear in speaking.

And after going through it in his mind, he even planned to talk about his ambitions in depth in conjunction with the differential geometry he wanted to teach.

"Hello, leaders and colleagues, first of all, I would like to thank Dean Zhang for giving me the opportunity to talk to you..."

"Ahem...Teacher Chen, don't use these clichés. Be more pragmatic and just talk about your work. Keep it as brief as possible."

As soon as Chen Zhuoyang started speaking, he was directly interrupted by Dean Zhang on the stage.

Chen Zhuoyang was stunned for a moment, and then he heard someone beside him laughing secretly.

Some anger began to rise in my heart, but I suppressed it when I saw that the leaders sitting on the stage didn't express anything.

"Okay, Dean Zhang. The course I am responsible for in the new semester is differential geometry. According to the syllabus, students are mainly required to master the first and second basic forms of space curves...

...In terms of course arrangement, I will follow a teaching arrangement that combines theory and practice, and formulate a series of open-ended tasks and design exploratory topics.

And through some physical phenomena and application cases, such as specular reflection, surface modeling, etc., students are allowed to study the application of differential geometry based on practical problems. I’m done.”

Chen Zhuoyang finished his speech expressionlessly.

If he is not allowed to thank you, he will not be grateful.

My mentor is also an academician, so even if I am at Yanbei University, I have to endure my temper.

The main reason is that there is nothing I can do about it. Even if there is a random person around me, Chen Zhuoyang will feel that he is much better than him.

Even the new junior fellow student, Qiao Yu, who is only sixteen years old, does not discuss mathematics directly with him. Any small achievements he makes are just combination boxing.

But it's not like he hasn't seen the research results of other colleagues since he came here.

He admitted that there were indeed people stronger than him. For example, there were strong people in school who had plans for thousands of people, but Chen Zhuoyang really felt that there were not many.

And in his opinion, the biggest difference between the School of Mathematics of Jinzhou University and Yanbei University is that there is no foundation in basic mathematics. This is why he feels that he can flex his talents.

Most of my colleagues are engaged in applied mathematics, and they particularly like to pursue hot topics, which leads to the fact that most of the papers published are in more general journals.

Now that he is protected by his younger brother, it is hard to say who will have higher academic achievements in the future.

So even though he had a rough idea of ​​what was going on, he had no intention of enduring it any longer.

The only thing he didn't understand was probably that he had never dealt with the vice-dean before, and today was the first time they met. Why did the other person seem to dislike him?

But thinking about it carefully, there is no need for him to kowtow to those who dislike him. He has already been recruited. No matter how powerful this person is, he cannot be sent back.

Not to mention that his mentor is also a Top 0 academician. He is really going to break up with him. Chen Zhuoyang doesn’t think he will definitely be able to please him.

As for him, the worst he can do is just follow his junior fellow apprentice!

"As a new lecturer, Mr. Chen has some ideas, but how to implement them into the course, such as the actual effect of interactive teaching, the executability of challenge activities and the quality of results, all need to be explored.
To be continued...