Digitization Empowering Local Universities to Integrate Talent Cultivation and Campus City Integration:Dilemma and Strategy
Cultivating high-quality talent to meet local needs is the core function of local universities.The integration of university and city is the key path for local universities to break away from the chronic illness of being detached from the local area and industry.Digitalization provides new opportunities for the integration of university and city for talent cultivation.This study proposes the core elements,trends and basic principles of digitalization to help local universities integrate talent cultivation with the city.It also analyzes the practical difficulties of digital integration through in-depth interviews with managers from five local universities,namely,the serious tendency of homogenization in digital concept planning,the difficulty of ensuring diverse participation in digital organizational systems,the failure to achieve joint construction and sharing of personnel and technology,the insufficient circulation and application of data resources,the difficulty of adapting professional courses to the needs of dynamic regional development,and the sluggish digital innovation in teaching practice and training.On this basis,this study proposes a strategy to promote the integration of universities and cities through digitalization,that is,to give full play to the role of digitalization in breaking through the boundaries of time and space,and to achieve collaborative discussion,open governance,joint construction,connection and sharing,dynamic adaptation,and interactive integration between universities and other entities in the city,so as to build a"big ecology"of talent cultivation integrating universities and cities.
Local universitiesTalent cultivationDigitizationSchool city integrationSchool local cooperation