As a result, not long after Pang Xuelin got in the car, he received a call from Shi Yi: "Professor Pang, do you have time tomorrow?" I would like to invite you to visit Westlake University. ”

Pang Xuelin was slightly stunned, thinking that this was really sleepy, someone would send a pillow, and he was thinking about how to find a suitable platform in the field of biology, so Shi Yi took the initiative to send it to the door.

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Okay, I will definitely go tomorrow." ”

Pang Xuelin knew very well what Shi Yi was looking for him.

In September last year, Shi Yi found himself and hoped that Westlake University and Qiantang Laboratory would reach cooperation in the fields of teaching and scientific research.

Pang Xuelin put forward a condition at that time, saying that Westlake University needed to be included in the system of Jiangcheng University, Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study, and Qiantang Laboratory, and at the same time, he could provide 3 billion yuan of financial support for Westlake University every year.

At that time, Shi Yi said that he needed to go back to discuss it, so he never followed.

Pang Xuelin originally thought that the board of trustees of Westlake University might not be willing to hand over the leadership of the school.

After all, after so many years of hard preparation, when he was about to get on the right track, he was picked a peach, and it is understandable that he was unwilling.

Unexpectedly, after nearly half a year, Shi Yi took the initiative to call him.

Although he didn't say it explicitly on the phone, Pang Xuelin understood that this matter should have a result.

Early the next morning, Pang Xuelin, accompanied by Zuo Yiqiu and others, drove to the Yungu Campus of Westlake University.

The Yungu campus is located in the northwest of Jiang University, which is not far from Jiang University.

This campus is the main campus of Westlake University, which was completed just last year.

When Pang Xuelin arrived, Shi Yi and a group of school leaders had been waiting at the gate of Westlake University for a long time.

As soon as Pang Xuelin got out of the car, Shi Yi took the lead and said with a smile: "Professor Pang, hello, welcome to Westlake University. ”

"Hello, Principal Shi." Pang Xuelin and Shi Yi shook hands.

Immediately afterwards, Shi Yi introduced to Pang Xuelin: "Professor Pang, let me introduce to you, this is Professor Qian Zhongning, the chairman of our school board of directors. ”

"Hello, Professor Qian!"

"This is Professor Chang Hao, vice president of Westlake University, who was previously the director of the State Key Laboratory of Optical Instruments and the director of the Institute of Micro-Nano Photonics of Jiangxi University, and came to work at Westlake University three years ago."

Next, Shi Yi introduced the remaining scholars to Pang Xuelin, all of whom are top scientists who are well-known in the world.

For example, Deng Li, a world-renowned organic synthetic chemist, Li Ziping, the highest member of the International Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Maud Savan, an academician of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, and so on.

Most of these people welcomed Pang Xuelin's arrival.

After all, this big guy has a good reputation, and if he can be interested in participating in his projects, maybe he can go up a step in terms of academic achievement.

Not to mention, if Pang Xuelin can really fulfill the scientific research funding commitment of 3 billion yuan per Chinese New Year's Eve, it will have many benefits for the research of every scholar in Westlake University.

Therefore, they were quite enthusiastic about Pang Xuelin's arrival.

Pang Xuelin greeted everyone at the school gate for a while, and then walked into the campus of Westlake University surrounded by them.

At present, Westlake University is only eligible for doctoral students, and it will not be able to officially admit the first batch of undergraduates until next year.

Therefore, although the Yungu Campus, which covers an area of 1,500 acres, has been completed, there are not many students inside.

Under the leadership of Shi Yi, Pang Xuelin and the others walked into Westlake University.

In front of you is a circular water system, which is a large circular building with a wide area, and the ring building is surrounded by auxiliary buildings.

Shi Yi introduced: "Professor Pang, the building in the water ring has been called an academic ring by us, which mainly undertakes most of the teaching, research and communication functions. Each annex building is a teaching building for a discipline, and the academic ring connects different disciplines together to promote the sharing and exchange of multiple disciplines. Outside the water ring is the life ring, which concentrates the functions of catering, accommodation, leisure, life, management and other functions, and provides social, living and leisure spaces outside of learning and scientific research. There are a total of 36 buildings on the campus of Westlake University, and this circular scientific research building and its auxiliary building occupy more than half of the construction area, which can be called the core of the entire Westlake University. ”

Pang Xuelin nodded with a smile, and under the leadership of Shi Yi, everyone walked through the water ring, entered the academic ring, and came to a conference room on the third floor to sit down.

Shi Yi said: "Professor Pang, when we met last year, you said that you hoped to incorporate Westlake University into the unified system of Jiangcheng University, Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study and Qiantang Laboratory. ”

"What's the matter?"

Shi Yi said: "We hope that you can serve as the chairman of the board of trustees of Westlake University and at the same time serve as an adjunct professor at Westlake University. ”

"The chairman of the school board?"

Pang Xuelin was slightly stunned, and turned his gaze to Qian Zhongning on the side.

The former dean of Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management seems to be the current chairman of the board of trustees of Westlake University, right?

Qian Zhongning saw Pang Xuelin's doubts, and said with a smile: "Professor Pang, if you agree, I will resign as the chairman of the board of directors and serve as the vice chairman of the board of directors!" ”

Pang Xuelin couldn't help but smile bitterly: "You guys are chasing ducks to the shelves, it's okay to be a part-time professor at Westlake University, but forget about the chairman of the board of directors, I have too many positions now, and I really can't do both." ”

Qian Zhongning said with a smile: "Professor Pang, this is not a duck to be put on the shelves, after all, after the two sides sign the agreement, you still need a lot of support in terms of funding, so the position of chairman of the board of directors of the school is really necessary for you." ”

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said: "In this way, just give me the title of honorary chairman of the school council, I am not personally responsible for specific affairs, as for the funding issue, I will arrange Transwarp Technology to dock with you at that time." ”

Qian Zhongning and Shi Yi glanced at each other, nodded and said, "That's okay!" ”

In fact, the reason why they want Pang Xuelin to be the chairman of the board of directors of the school is that in addition to hoping that Pang Xuelin will contribute in terms of teaching and research funds, there is also a careful thought.

That is, Pang Xuelin will be used as the signboard of Westlake University for future enrollment publicity.

You must know that in the past two years, as Pang Xuelin has made more and more achievements in Jiang University, the college entrance examination admission score line of Jiangcheng University has also risen.

Especially this year, the score line has been on par with Qingbei.

And mathematics, materials science, electrochemistry and other majors are even more scary.

The output of top-level scientific research achievements, the improvement of the quality of students, and the improvement of scientific research funding and faculty of Jiangxi University have formed a positive cycle relationship.

With Jiangda Zhuyu in front, Westlake University, which has not yet officially enrolled undergraduates, is under great pressure.

Because of this, they will try their best to pull Pang Xuelin into Westlake University.

If at this time, the news that Pang Xuelin is also the honorary chairman of the board of directors and an adjunct professor of Westlake University spreads, it will undoubtedly be a major positive for the enrollment work of Westlake University in the coming year.

Pang Xuelin naturally understood Qian Zhongning and Shi Yi's thoughts.

But it also gave him an idea.

Shi Yi founded Westlake University in the hope of studying at Caltech and opening up a new path for China's higher education.

In the past two years, with the rapid rise of Jiangcheng University, the status of Westlake University in Jiangcheng has become a little embarrassing.

Westlake University went to become China's version of Caltech more than ten years later, but within a few years, Jiang University has become the so-called Chinese version of Caltech.

Therefore, even if Pang Xuelin is an adjunct professor at Westlake University, at best, it will make Westlake University develop a little better and become another Jiangxi University.

This is not what Pang Xuelin wants.

Shi Yi and Qian Zhongning's work in the past few years has laid a very good foundation for the next development of Westlake University.

Whether it is the talent pool or the hardware facilities, there is gradually a prototype of a world-class university.

The best thing is that Westlake University has not yet begun to recruit undergraduates, and has not yet formed a complete undergraduate education system.

This is like preparing a good pen, ink, paper and inkstone for Pang Xuelin, waiting for him to splash ink in this huge work.

Therefore, Pang Xuelin feels that he has an obligation to let Westlake University play the role of an explorer of China's higher education.

As for the direction of reform, of course, it is not the American-style higher education system.

In the world of the Dark Forest, when Pang Xuelin was the wall-facer, he once established the Star Ring University and the Star Ring Institute for Advanced Study, and made it a scientific research center for human civilization.

Even in the later era of deterrence, Star Ring University still firmly occupies the throne of the top university in human civilization.

Therefore, Transwarp University is undoubtedly the best template for studying at Westlake University.

Pang Xuelin pondered for a moment and said: "President Shi, Chairman Qian, I can hold part of the position at Westlake University, and I can also give a commitment in terms of the school's annual funding, and even I can let some scientists from the Qiantang Laboratory and the Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study serve as professors at Westlake University, but I also have a few requirements." ”

"What do you want, please say."

Pang Xuelin said: "First, the teaching goal of Westlake University should be positioned to cultivate academic talents, and the goal of our school is to make every graduate have the ability to become a unique scholar. Therefore, for the quality of students, we must adhere to high standards, strict entry and strict exit. At present, the enrollment criteria are tentatively set as the top 100 in the college entrance examination in each province and the gold medalists in the National Olympiad in mathematics, chemistry, physics, biology and informatics......"

Qian Zhongning and Shi Yi couldn't help but be taken aback, Pang Xuelin's request was much higher than that of Qingbei and Jiangda.

"What if the enrollment is not enough?"

Shi Yi frowned.

Pang Xuelin said: "It's better to lack than to excess!" ”

After a pause, Pang Xuelin said: "Second, any student who is admitted to Westlake University can be provided with scholarships and tuition waivers. However, this is only for first-year students, starting from the sophomore year, we adopt the last elimination system, and the top 30% of students can provide full scholarships, tentatively 20,000 yuan per person per semester. Students who rank in the bottom 10% of their grades are directly discouraged. This should be explained before the student applies for the exam. In addition, each course can provide two opportunities to retake the exam, and if you fail to pass the second retake, you will also be directly discouraged. ”

Qian Zhongning frowned and said, "Professor Pang, will this be too strict?" In addition, don't we engage in independent enrollment? Like an interview or something? ”

Pang Xuelin shook his head and said with a smile: "We don't engage in independent enrollment, many independent enrollments have interview links, but the interview is too subjective, and we want to recruit academic talents, this kind of talent is not the most important thing, and even their own talent is not the most important." The most important thing is to be able to endure loneliness and have excellent self-discipline, and students who can fight out of the thousands of troops in the college entrance examination generally have such ability. ”

Qian Zhongning and Shi Yi glanced at each other, and said with some tears and laughter: "Professor Pang, are there any other requirements?" ”

Pang Xuelin laughed and said: "The third requirement is that all students who can get a full scholarship from this university for four consecutive years are prohibited from going abroad, and must stay for graduate school, and during their graduate studies, they can go to Qiantang Laboratory, Jiangcheng Institute for Advanced Study and other places to participate in various projects. ”

"This ......" Shi Yi couldn't help frowning, "What if the students don't want to?" After all, there is still a certain gap between our graduate education and the top foreign universities. ”

Pang Xuelin smiled and said, "Professor Shi Yi, do you believe me?" ”

Shi Yi looked at Pang Xuelin with some puzzlement.

Pang Xuelin stretched out four fingers and said: "The first batch of undergraduates will be enrolled this year, give me four years, within four years, I will make the Qiantang Laboratory one of the top national laboratories in the world, and then it will not be the talents we have worked so hard to cultivate to go abroad to study, but those foreign students who will try their best to come to us to study." ”

Everyone in the conference room couldn't help but look at each other, although they felt that what Pang Xuelin said was a little incredible, but no one raised a rebuttal.

After all, there are two Nobel Prize bigwigs in the Qiantang Laboratory, and there are also countless big names in graphene, carbon nanotubes, electrochemistry and other fields.

What's more, these big bulls were not introduced from the outside world, but through cooperation with Pang Xuelin, they were killed all the way in the academic world.

For example, Li Changqing and Wan Yi of Jiangda Carbon Nano Research Center, Qian Xingmin of Jinlong Battery Research Center and others, before the change, these people also had a certain reputation in the domestic academic community, and their popularity in the world was not large.

But now, the status of these people in the academic world has changed dramatically.

There was once a grapevine that the Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered Li Changqing a tenured professorship, hoping that he could lead the research of carbon nanotubes in the past, but Li Changqing refused.

Shi Yi was silent for a long time, then nodded, "Okay, Professor Pang, then do as you say." ”

Pang Xuelin laughed and said: "That's okay, tomorrow I will ask Ms. Wang Zhi of Transwarp Technology to come over and discuss cooperation with Westlake University, in addition, there are still more than four months before the college entrance examination, and the enrollment work can almost start preparing for this year's efforts to recruit more than 100 undergraduates." ”。

"Good!"

Shi Yi nodded.