About two months after the central inspection team was stationed, the 71-year-old former secretary of the Beijing Normal University Party Committee Liu Chuansheng took the initiative to surrender.
On July 8, the official website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Liu Chuansheng, the former secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University, took the initiative to submit a case for serious violations of discipline and law. He is currently undergoing disciplinary review and investigation by the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection.
Liu Chuansheng retired in November 2016 and served as the party secretary of Beijing Normal University for 11 years. Including her, two central management cadres in the education field have been investigated this year. Prior to this, Yu Zhigang, former member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress and former vice president of China University of Political Science and Law, was expelled from the party and public office for serious violations of discipline and law. Liu Chuansheng has also become the first provincial and ministerial-level senior official to fall in the field of education this year.
Zeng said to "do your best" to Beijing Normal University
Liu Chuansheng, female, a native of Shanxi, was born in Sichuan in December 1950. She has a very rich life experience. She has worked in universities, state ministries, media, and diplomatic systems. In her early years, she jumped in the Heilongjiang Production and Construction Corps.
In 1972, she entered the Department of Automation of Tsinghua University as a worker, peasant, soldier, and then studied as a postgraduate at Tsinghua School of Economics and Management. She served as a teacher and deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee of Tsinghua University. She has "studied, worked and lived in Tsinghua University for 13 years." After that, he joined the National Education Commission and served as the first secretary of the Education Office of the Embassy in the UK five years later.
In September 1994, he moved to work in the education media of China Education News, and served successively as deputy secretary and deputy president of the party committee, secretary of the party committee and vice president and president of the society. He later served as Minister Counselor of the Education Section of the Embassy in the United States.
In June 2005, she returned to the education system and served as Secretary of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University until her retirement in November 2016, which is 11 years later.
"On June 10, 2005, I reported to Beijing Normal University," Liu Chuansheng once told the media, "I think my mission at Beijing Normal University is to serve teachers and students. If you regard yourself as an official, you will not be able to serve well. ."
In reviewing this experience at Beijing Normal University, she said, “For Beijing Normal University, although I have some shortcomings in my work, I think I have at least done my best, fulfilled my duties, and grasped the political direction.”
During her work at Beijing Normal University, she also had many part-time jobs, such as the vice president of the Chinese Education Development Strategy Society, the president of the National Institute of Ideological and Political Education Research Association of Higher Education, and the chairman of the Human Resources Promotion Special Working Committee of the Confucius Institute Headquarters of Hanban, etc. , Used to be the executive director of the China Women Entrepreneurs Association.
After retiring, he attended the related activities of the school as the chairman of the sixth council of the Beijing Normal University Alumni Association and the chairman of the ideological and political education branch of the Chinese Higher Education Association.
Volunteer to surrender during the inspection
In the field of education, Beijing Normal University has a very high degree of recognition in society. The official website of Beijing Normal University shows that Beijing Normal University is a key university directly under the Ministry of Education. It is a well-known university featuring teacher education, educational science, and basic subjects of liberal arts and sciences. Its school motto is: learn to be a teacher and behave as a model.
A teacher from Beijing Normal University told China News Weekly that he was shocked to hear the news because he felt that Liu Chuan was very kind at work in his life and had a certain reputation among teachers and students.
Liu Chuansheng has repeatedly talked about the need to "seek truth from facts" and "do a good job in the present, and go down to earth". However, according to previous media reports, during Liu Chuansheng's tenure, the private school of Beijing Normal University with a "hat" was sought after by real estate developers across the country. Under the "real estate + prestigious school" sales model, it was often difficult to find a room.
In February of this year, Xinhua News Agency’s media reported that various types of cooperative education under the name of prestigious schools are blooming everywhere. In the process of cooperating with some prestigious schools, there have been problems such as the namelessness of the name and name of the school, and the fact that the real estate business runs the school as a "sale signboard".
The report mentioned that the quality of cooperation with prestigious schools varies from good to bad. Since 2011, the High School Affiliated to Beijing Normal University has successively opened experimental schools in Guanshanhu District and Gui'an New District in Guiyang City.
The report also mentioned that in some places, real estate companies have participated in cooperative school establishment, and the signs of prestigious schools have become "signs of sales."
At the beginning of May this year, the third inspection team of the Central Committee held a mobilization meeting to inspect the work of the Party Committee of Beijing Normal University. According to the central government's unified deployment of inspections, the central inspection team will work at Beijing Normal University for about two months, and the inspection team will accept letters and visits until June 30, 2021.
According to the regulations of inspection work, the central inspection team mainly accepts letters and calls that reflect the problems of the leading group of the Beijing Normal University Party Committee and its members, the main person in charge of the leading group of the next-level party organization, and leading cadres in important positions. The focus is on violations of political discipline, Organize reports and reflections on disciplines, integrity disciplines, mass disciplines, work disciplines, and life disciplines.
Frequent cases of corruption in colleges and universities
Colleges and universities are often called ivory towers, which are temples of knowledge. However, corruption cases in colleges and universities have been frequent in recent years.
Public research data shows that there are many forms of corruption in colleges and universities, and there are spaces for power to seek rent and use power for personal gain in academics, educational affairs, personnel, finance, enrollment, infrastructure, and school-run enterprises. Among them, infrastructure, procurement, finance, and personnel are all areas with a high incidence of corruption.
Previously, Li Lisha, associate professor of the Chongqing Anti-Corruption Research Center, published a paper entitled "Big Data Analysis of Corruption Crimes in Colleges and Universities from the Perspective of Containment Theory: Based on the Empirical Study of Corruption Crimes in Colleges and Universities from 2007 to 2019", which showed that school leadership positions have the highest corruption risk.
On July 5, the official website of the Beijing Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection announced that Shen Zhili, former member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of North China University of Technology, was expelled from the party and from public office. In May, Ding Hui, the former deputy secretary of the party committee and president of North China University of Technology, was also "double-opened."
The report mentioned that Shen Zhili had bad political conduct, repeated anonymous false accusations, resisted organizational censorship, participated in superstition activities, indulged in beauty, lived extravagantly, used the convenience of her position, sought improper benefits for others, and illegally accepted other people's property.
As for Ding Hui, the official report stated that he failed to perform his supervisory duties in the process of managing and using state-owned assets, resulting in huge losses; he abused his power when handling compensation for the relocation of his subordinate units, resulting in particularly heavy losses in national interests; For the convenience of others, seeking benefits for others, illegally accepting property from others.
In addition, according to the news on the website of the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection on June 28, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, the State Supervision Commission of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection dealt with the serious violation of discipline and law by Yu Zhigang, former member of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People’s Congress and former vice president of China University of Political Science and Law. A case was filed for review and investigation.
After investigation, Yu Zhigang abandoned his original mission, lost the bottom line of discipline and law, violated the morality and style of teachers, and violated the spirit of the eight regulations of the central government. He accepted gifts and gifts, accepted banquets and travel arranged by others; his organizational concept was weak, and he did not truthfully report personal concerns. Matters; private use of public power to engage in power and money transactions; use the convenience of one's position to seek benefits for others, and illegally accept other people's property.
According to incomplete statistics, since the beginning of the year, more than 10 officials in the field of colleges and universities have been dismissed, most of whom are the school’s party committee secretary or the “top leader” of the principal.
Some research materials indicate that the fight against corruption in colleges and universities requires a combination of punches, based on the reality of colleges and universities, and comprehensive policies. It is necessary to seize the education, management and supervision of the "critical minority" of leading cadres, especially the main leading cadres, and to strengthen supervision of key areas and weak links of colleges and universities such as infrastructure, enrollment, finance, procurement, and school-run industries.
At the same time, it is recommended to take the construction of a clean government culture as an important work to improve the punishment and prevention system of corruption, strengthen the construction of the style of university leadership, the construction of the morality of the teachers, the construction of academic ethics and the style of study, and strive to create a clean campus environment.