On August 1, a female associate professor of Chongqing University committed suicide by jumping off a building from her home. She left a suicide note to reflect the problems in the college. In the early morning of the 7th, the official Weibo of Chongqing University issued a notice stating that it expressed deep condolences to the teacher who passed away, and conducted a detailed investigation of the matters reflected in the suicide note, and found no problems reflected in it.
The female teacher who jumped off the building was surnamed Dong. According to the school's official website information, in July 2005, Mr. Dong received a master's degree in philosophy from Yunnan University and a doctorate in philosophy from Tsinghua University in 2011. During his master's and doctoral studies, all his majors were ethics. Before she died, she was an associate professor of the school.
On the evening of the 1st, the Jimu News reporter noticed that after Teacher Dong jumped off the building, her suicide note was circulated on the Internet. In the suicide note, she reflected that there were problems in the college: some college leaders were corrupt, and some teachers monitored her private life. A teacher from Chongqing University told JiMu News that the reason why Mr. Dong jumped off the building was not necessarily because of work, but also because of family or spiritual reasons.
In the early morning of the 7th, the official Weibo of Chongqing University released the "Notice on the Investigation of the Death of a Teacher in Our School". The report stated: At 14:31 on August 1, 2021, Dong Mou, female, 42 years old, an associate professor, a teacher of the school, fell from a building outside the school and passed away unfortunately. After public security organs' on-site investigations, physical evidence inspections, investigations and visits, video surveillance, etc., they were determined to be autonomous and criminal cases were ruled out. After the incident, the school attached great importance to it and immediately established a special working group composed of discipline inspection and supervision, organization and personnel, teacher work and other departments to properly handle the aftermath, and conduct detailed investigations on the matters reflected in the suicide note left by Teacher Dong before falling down.
The report stated that: in response to the problems reflected in Teacher Dong’s suicide note, the special working group conducted inspections through conversations, accessing materials, and extracting relevant vouchers. 48 people had conversations, and 527 relevant files, materials, and account vouchers were consulted, but they were not found. Reflected issues. In the first half of this year, the school inspected its college. The inspection team talked with the faculty and staff of the college one by one. Teacher Dong and other comrades of the college did not report relevant issues.
The report read: It is understood that Mr. Dong is more serious and responsible in his work, and he has high self-demand. In 2021, the college recommended it to apply for the funding plan for the selection of college teachers and funded its publication of monographs. After Mr. Dong's divorce, his family's emotions changed and his emotions were affected; he usually had less contact with everyone, and his personality was more sensitive, and sometimes misunderstood the normal communication between colleagues; he also suspected that the master who normally installed the network cable installed surveillance in his home Device. When extracting the relevant physical evidence, the public security agency discovered that Teacher Dong had left a will on April 25, 2020 for the disposal of the property; a few days before Gao Zhui searched the Internet for keywords such as "falling from a building" and "neurasthenia" many times.
Finally, the school expressed its deep condolences for the passing of Teacher Dong and sincere condolences to the family of Teacher Dong. The school will further improve the psychological counseling and crisis intervention mechanisms for teachers and students, and promote the physical and mental health of teachers and students.