Chapter 398: Special Book Friend
If you want to run a primary and secondary school, you may be able to achieve results in a short period of time, but for universities, it is definitely not possible to achieve results in just a few years.
The starting point of the Talent College is not high, the hardware conditions aside, the school itself does not offer enough majors, and wanting to increase the major does not mean that the school itself wants to add it, but has a set of clear and standardized processes.
According to the Regulations on the Administration of the Establishment of Undergraduate Majors in Ordinary Colleges and Universities, colleges and universities must have the basic conditions of relying on relevant disciplines and majors, having a stable demand for social talents, and having a full-time team of teachers and teaching assistants necessary for the completion of the professional talent training program.
The Ministry of Education has set up a special website as a public information service and management platform for this work.
However, as long as there is no new major that is not in the "Professional Catalog", you can just go to the Ministry of Education for the record.
Yingcai College did not have a philosophy-related major before, so Liang Qichao was in the least hurry to come over now, and he would not return to teach until the next semester when the school added a philosophy major and accepted students.
Luo Zhenyu originally wanted to teach agriculture, but the school did not have this major for the time being, but he was not idle, but decided to teach history courses first.
In addition, Zhuang Yan needs to consider a very practical problem, that is, the enrollment problem in a few months.
Although many people on the Internet expressed their willingness to study at the school, when they returned to reality, it was not so ideal.
Shizhong Academy has just come out, and although it has gathered many academic masters, no one knows what will happen to Shizhong College in the end. There is potential and strength, after all, they are two different things, netizens on the Internet are talking lively, but if they really put the notice of Shizhong College and the notice of Yenching University in front of them, will they choose Shizhong College?
Even if you don't compare it with Yenching University, even other public schools have more advantages than Shizhong College.
Better infrastructure, more secure paths, more visible prospects, and last but not least, cheaper tuition fees.
That's right, this is the reason why most private schools can't do public schools. Normal public schools, no matter how good the school is, except for special majors, the general tuition fees for majors are about four or five thousand.
But private schools are different, without the state's annual subsidies, a student's tuition fee is at least seven or eight thousand a year. This is the least, and most of the private schools have tuition fees of more than 10,000 yuan.
The difference between public and private schools is more than double in one year, and in four years, you may have to pay 20,000 or 30,000 yuan more to study in private schools.
It is impossible for Zhuang Yan to reduce the tuition fees, imagine that if a school accepts 10,000 or 20,000 people, the tuition fees alone will have to be discounted by tens of millions every year. The school now has to build a building and buy all kinds of hardware facilities, and Zhuang Yan can't build it no matter how much money he can make.
However, although he was worried about the enrollment in the future, he couldn't rush this matter, so he could only develop slowly.
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Just when there was a lot of discussion on the Internet, in mid-April, Zhuang Yan had already boarded a plane to the United States.
The English version of "Sophie's World" was released in the United States on April 14, and this time it sold a little less than the last "Catcher in the Rye" and "The Old Man and the Sea", with only more than 600,000 sales on the first day.
Zhuang Yan went to hold the first overseas signing meeting this time, and overseas netizens had been making trouble for a long time, but Zhuang Yan had not responded here, so he just took this opportunity to hold a signing meeting, which can be regarded as giving overseas netizens some benefits.
It is not easy to come to the United States once, so Zhuang Yan could not go back after holding only one signing meeting, he chose several big cities and prepared to hold a total of five signing meetings.
The first stop is New York, which is the first choice for signing sales in the United States as an international metropolis. And according to previous statistics, Zhuang Yan's books tend to be the best-selling in New York.
Because it was Zhuang Yan's first overseas book signing, the book lovers in New York were very good. Barnesamp in Midtown New York; amp; At the door of Noble, two or three thousand book friends gathered, which made Zhuang Yan feel the enthusiasm from New York.
As usual, Zhuang Yan wrote a special sign for the first book friend, he wrote it in Chinese characters, and the first person in line was a blonde foreigner, so Zhuang Yan didn't know if he could read it or not.
But no matter whether this foreign book friend understands it or not, he is also very excited to see the special signature on the book, he has long known that Zhuang Yan has the habit of writing a special signature for the first person, so he came to line up early, and now he is getting what he wants, and he is naturally very happy.
To sign for foreigners, Zhuang Yan is not foolish, how to sign in China, how to sign here.
Occasionally, some book friends were more enthusiastic and wanted to chat with him, but he laughed and did not speak, because time was tight and he was not allowed to communicate with them more. Of course, everyone knows that he can speak English, after all, he has translated his own books before.
The signing went well, but around noon, something special happened.
Although Zhuang Yan does not require books to be bought on the spot to sign, under normal circumstances, book lovers will sign Zhuang Yan's works, just like this time, although most of them are holding "Sophie's World", but there are also many books from Zhuang Yan's past, such as "The Catcher in the Rye" and the like.
Of course, there are some special ones, Zhuang Yan met a girl before, holding a signature book for Zhuang Yan to sign, and Zhuang Yan also signed.
That is already the most special one that Zhuang Yan has ever signed, but today there is an even more special one.
Zhuang Yan looked at the middle-aged man in front of him, about thirty years old, in a suit and leather shoes, combed a middle point, and looked quite energetic.
The book he was holding was not one of Zhuang Yan's, and the title on it was "theromanticadventuresofagentleman".
The title of the book is very long, which translates to: Our Mr. Ryan - A Gentleman's Romantic Journey.
He looked at the man and the meaning was obvious, big brother, even if you bring a blank piece of paper, I will sign it for you, what do you mean by taking someone else's book?
Zhuang Yan smiled and said, "My name is Zhuang Yan, do you recognize the wrong person?" Of course, he spoke in English.
The man touched his nose awkwardly and said, "Mr. Zhuang Yan, in fact, I wrote this book myself, and it still has my name on it. ”
Zhuang Yan looked down, and it said that the author's name was "SinclairLeis".
"Oh, so your name is -" Just about to say the other party's name, Zhuang Yan suddenly remembered something, looked at the man in front of him with a surprised face, and exclaimed in his heart: This thing can't be Sinclair?