The Sponsoring Idea And Construction Of Campus Culture Of American Universities

The sponsoring ideas of universities to a large extent set forth requirements to the specifications of cultivating, including the ideological and political requirements, which, only reflected in the construction of campus culture, can play its practical guiding role and improve their ideological and political quality. From the perspective of training students' ideological and political quality, according to what kind of talent the universities should cultivate and how to train them, this paper inspected the sponsoring ideas of American universities, analyzed how the American universities put their school concept of stressing the ideological and political education in the specific factors into the campus cultural activities, thus completing the task of ideological and political education, and drew on inspiration China's construction of campus culture.This paper can be divided into five parts.The first part is the introduction. It has mainly expounded the theoretical value and practical significance of the topic, analyzed the achievement and weak points of the campus culture, and introduced the research methods, contents and innovation.The second part stated the relationship between the sponsoring ideas and the campus culture. First, it analyzed the concept of personnel training of some people, like Humboldt,Hutchins,Flexner,Karl Jaspers and Clark Kerr. Although their points were not the same, but reflected the universities' value orientation in the different periods , and in varying degrees, promoted the development of the concept and practice of the universities' sponsoring. Moreover, it pointed out that only when specified into the campus cultural activities, the sponsoring ideas can really play their ideological and political education function.The third part inspected of the sponsoring ideas of the universities of the United States. It analyzed the Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, the West Point Military Academy, and other 20 universities from the United States, and studied from four aspects, such as training citizens moral, taking part in social services, cultivating leadership, and stressing cultural plurality. These elements not only reflected the clear concept of personnel training of American Universities, but also the value they pursued. Part four analyzed the construction of campus culture of American Universities. They put their sponsoring ideas into concrete campus cultural activities mainly from five aspects, such as shaping the schools' material and culture, holding ceremony, creating the honor systems, passing on the campus stories, conducting community service activities and training leadership, in order to enhance ideological and political quality of students.The fifth part proposed suggestions to the construction of campus culture of China's universities. China's colleges and universities should strengthen their material and cultural construction, pay attention to creating and giving the school ceremonies, stress the establishment and improvement of honor system, focus on the accumulation of the campus stories, emphasize the development and enrichment of the campus cultural activities, in order to achieve the optimization of the construction of campus culture.