Gao Weiyuan rides a donkey and looks for a horse to deal with? Tsinghua University excludes alumni from opinion survey, survey questions exposed

Gao Weiyuan, president of Tsinghua University. (File photo)

Tsinghua University. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)

Tsinghua University held an additional school affairs meeting this afternoon. The meeting discussed the proposal of the Board of Regents on whether to conduct an opinion survey regarding the renewal of President Gao Weiyuan and his participation in the selection of President of the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The discussion lasted three hours. During the meeting, a school representative proposed that the proposal be shelved in a secret vote, and an amendment would be proposed later. It was finally passed that an opinion survey would still be conducted on the Gao Weiyuan incident, but alumni would be excluded, and only about 20,000 faculty, staff, and students would be surveyed. This opinion survey would be conducted by the Computer and Communications Center and supervised by the School Supervisory Committee. But how long does the opinion survey last? There was no specific discussion at the school meeting about when the results would be announced.

There are two questions in the opinion survey. The first question is: President Gao Weiyuan’s participation in the selection of the president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa has harmed the reputation of Tsinghua University. Options include strongly disagree, disagree, no opinion, agree, and strongly agree. The content of question 2 is that the principal participated in the selection of the president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which has a negative impact on the development of school affairs. There are also options such as strongly disagree, disagree, no opinion, agree, and strongly agree. This opinion survey will be conducted by the computer and communication center on campus among faculty, staff and students, and will be supervised by the school supervisory board.

However, the school affairs meeting did not discuss the time and results of the opinion survey on the Gao Weiyuan incident, and it ruled out conducting opinion surveys on alumni. Some representatives of the Tsinghua University administration believe that the Gao Weiyuan incident has continued to rage because Tsingta University has never encountered such a situation in the past. Judging from the results of the school affairs meeting, the Gao Weiyuan incident will only continue to drag on like an eight o'clock TV series.

The Tsinghua University School Council approved an opinion survey on the Gao Weiyuan incident, but excluded alumni, and the survey questions were released. (Photo by reporter Hong Meixiu)