Character of counselor and head teacher

[Counselor Style] Du Shujun: Use love and wisdom to illuminate students’ research paths

Published: January 13, 2025 Editor: Zhang Xinyun


Du Shujun, a member of the Communist Party of China, is a graduate counselor at the w88 casino of International Economics and w88. Since 2011, she has been working in the w88 casino as one of the first batch of administrative postgraduate graduates. She has been engaged in student work in the w88 casino Youth League Committee and the w88 casino of International Economics and w88 for 13 years, training and serving 3,272 graduate students in 6 sessions. She has been awarded the honorary title of Outstanding Individual in the National College and Vocational w88 casino Student Volunteers' Summer "Three Going to the Countryside" Social Practice Activities, Advanced Individual in the Summer Social Practice of Capital College and Vocational College Students, Advanced Individual in the Employment of Beijing College Graduates, Outstanding Educator, and Excellent Counselor. Hosted and participated in 5 projects and published 8 academic papers.

Du Shujun keeps in mind the original mission of “educating people for the party and educating talents for the country”, takes root in the front line, is diligent in thinking, selfless dedication, and actively exploresConsolidate the foundation with party building, use ideology and politics throughout the entire process, integrate industry and academia, empower and educate people with digital intelligence, and protect the heart with warmth’s new approach to postgraduate ideological and political education, and strive to be a guide for students’ thoughts, a fellow traveler in their growth, and a pathfinder for their progress.


Party building strengthens the foundation and lights up the beacon of faith

Du Shujun’s students have many party members. She often thinks about how to give full play to the ideological and political leadership of postgraduate party building and cultivate high-level talents for a powerful country in education. She serves as the instructor of the college's "Fengmao" Student Party Building Center, establishing a contact system between the center and the college's graduate party branch secretaries, party members, and activists, regularly conducting party class study and practical research activities, and strengthening party building leadership. Faced with the difficulties in party member development, education and management caused by the large number of students, she selected outstanding student party members to devote themselves to party practice, strengthened party building work, promoted the formulation of the "Seven Ones" standard system for party members' daily management, and ensured that party member education supervision was implemented.

She actively promotes innovation in postgraduate party building work, breaking the traditional way of setting up party branches by class, setting up postgraduate party branches vertically across grades with majors as "anchors", deeply integrating party building work with subject training, organizing postgraduate party branches to co-build with enterprises, and won the Beijing University Red "1+1" Demonstration Activity Excellence Award. She actively targets the "mass entrepreneurship" work of postgraduate party building, focusing on grassroots party building projects, cultivating 9 excellent w88 casino-level postgraduate party-building projects, and establishing 3 outstanding student party members at the w88 casino level. She selects advanced models and gives full play to the leadership of her peers. She actively mobilized the strength of party members to serve the overall situation. Among the graduate party members she led, 12 participated in the Tiananmen Square ceremony celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, 3 participated in performances at the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, and 2 participated in special internships for the Winter Olympics.

Lead student party members and activists to participate in off-campus labor education practice


Innovate ideological and political approaches and create a unique platform

Under the guidance of the college, Du Shujun fully mobilized all resources to create a panoramic graduate student characteristic ideological and political education platform with interactive teaching between teachers and students + output of theoretical study results + integration of knowledge and action to forge ahead - Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Youth Learning Society (hereinafter referred to as the "Learning Society"). On campus, she gathered ideological and political resources from all sources to build a diverse platform, and invited "Contemporary Lei Feng" Guo Mingyi to give a special report on "I Grow Together with the Motherland", allowing students to feel the power of role models up close and deeply understand the moving connotation of "serving the people"; she organized an interview with teacher Chen Renkang to deeply trace the revolutionary story of her father and founding general Chen Shiju, and condensed the interview results into the article "Original Aspiration on the Road to Dreaming", which won the Ministry of Education's "Understanding China" award. The best essay award in the activity continues the red blood while tracing the footsteps of the revolutionary ancestors; we continue to launch theoretical study columns such as "Learning and Studying Weekly Talks" and "Daily Xi'hua" to cultivate students' theoretical learning consciousness, and lead the launch of a series of themed education activities such as "Listening to economic and w88 students telling the party history story in their hometown", "Young people have the right to learn from their peers", and "Century Long March Red Cross-country" to stimulate students' enthusiasm for learning and let ideological and political education enter their minds and hearts.

Not only that, she made good use of the red resources in the capital and carefully planned off-campus practices. From the Red Building of Peking University to the Party History Exhibition Hall, from the National Museum to the Military Museum, the members of the study club have traveled all over the red education base in the capital. She also closely integrated ideological and political education with social practice classes, organized teachers and students of the college to go deep into the rural grassroots, and carried out special social practices for rural revitalization in Liangjiahe, Yan'an City, and Jingbian County, Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, and promoted ideological guidance and family and country sentiment education in practical education. At present, the Learning Club has trained and educated more than 10,000 people, and the series of activities have been specially reported by Guangming Daily. Many students have grown and progressed on this platform, and actively moved closer to the party organization. After graduation, batches of outstanding students went to the forefront of national construction, transforming the fruits of ideological and political education into practical actions to serve the country and contribute to society.

“Youth Learning Club” received a special report by Guangming Daily


Focus on the integration of industry and academia, and strive for w88 casino-enterprise linkage

Focusing on the major strategy of integrating education, technology, and talents, and further promoting the integration of industry and academia, Du Shujun took the lead in establishing a youth career development center to break the "fragmented" career guidance model and build a training system of "demand-driven-subject collaboration-same-frequency resonance" to guide students in all aspects to deepen their professional understanding, improve learning efficiency, and accurately anchor the development direction. She has carefully created a w88 casino-enterprise co-education plan, invited enterprises to participate in the formulation of graduate training programs, built a digital literacy elite class, and provided students with a learning and practice platform that is in line with the forefront of industry. Through the Youth Growth Plan and the Alumni Mentor Plan, she invites current students and alumni groups to participate in education work such as academic guidance, scientific research competitions, innovation and entrepreneurship, internship and employment, forming a normalized, institutionalized, and systematic "one-on-one" career consulting work mechanism, and building an education matrix that covers the entire process of student growth. She also actively establishes contacts with enterprises and institutions to jointly build internship bases, coordinates and organizes special lectures and double selection meetings, and builds a broad platform for students to find employment. Under the guidance of Du Shujun, the college's "Riding the Wind and Waves" series of employment brand activities has been organized for more than 200 events, covering more than 10,000 students. She has led the team to write more than 300,000 words of "Riding the Wind and Waves Employment Guidance Guide" for three consecutive years. 99% of the graduate students she has led have achieved high-quality employment, and more than 3,000 high-level talents have been exported to the country's economic and social development.

Opening Ceremony of the First Digital Literacy Talent Class of "Digital Economy Innovation Talent Plan"


Keep up with the pace of the times, empower people with digital intelligence

In the digital era, Du Shujun is keenly aware of the importance of digital technology for ideological and political education and student management. She actively explores the application of digital means in educating people, and improves work efficiency and educational effects through innovative working methods. She presided over the college's student work official account "UIBE Economics and w88 People" and launched the five education sections of "Morality, Intelligence, Physical Education, Art and Labor". She has published a total of 2,265 tweets in 4 years, with 5.1 million clicks, ranking at the forefront of the w88 casino in influence. She also invited leading companies in the digital industry to jointly build digital literacy courses, organized scientific and technological innovation event case sharing and expert lectures on cutting-edge applications of artificial intelligence to improve students' digital literacy and continuously empower students' growth and development.

She actively explores the innovative application of digital technology in educating people, organizing students to watch the National Day military parade through VR panoramic view, and jointly express their love to the motherland. The "Minecraft" game engine was used to reconstruct the University of w88 and Economics campus and hold a cloud graduation ceremony, which received more than 1.4 million on-demand views across the entire network. These innovative measures not only left deep memories for students in special times, but also expanded the infinite possibilities of intelligent education.

Holding "Minecraft" 2020 Cloud Graduation Ceremony


Warmth protects the heart and illuminates the road to growth

In her daily work, Du Shujun always insists on being student-centered and warms every student with love and care. She pays attention to classified guidance, regularly provides in-depth tutoring, pays attention to students' individual differences, explores students' interests and strengths, and helps students formulate personalized development plans. She cares about students' living and learning conditions, and is "always attentive to students' needs, responsive to everything, and everything is taken care of." When students encounter difficulties, she is always the first to lend a helping hand and provide help and support. The student was suffering from a serious illness. She went to the hospital many times to discuss with the student's family and the attending doctor. When she learned that the student's family had financial difficulties, she organized multiple channels to raise funds to help the student relieve financial pressure and encourage the student to face the disease bravely. She pays attention to class construction, builds a multi-level work echelon, strengthens learner empowerment training, and improves class cohesion and management level. She has established a solid bottom line for campus safety and has achieved zero complaints, zero safety incidents, and zero major public opinion as a counselor for nine consecutive years.

Distributing large gift packages to overseas students on New Year’s Eve

In many years of working as a counselor, Du Shujun has deeply realized that the job of a counselor is not only a profession, but also a great career carrying countless hopes and dreams. Every communication with students, every organization of activities, and every difficulty solved made her more determined in her original intention of education.

She knows that to do a good job as a counselor, she must constantly improve herself, keep up with the times, grasp students' ideological trends, and innovate working methods. We should use love as a bridge, listen to students' voices with heart, and use wisdom as light to illuminate the way for students to grow and become talents. Youth breeds unlimited hope. As a guide for students on the road to growth, she will lead with the spirit of an educator, uphold a hard-working attitude, embody the wisdom of educating people, and continue to move forward towards the goal of professional and expert development of counselors, making steady and long-term progress.

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