It has always been our guiding ideology to run schools around the needs of the central work of the party and the needs of old comrades for knowledge and dedication. Therefore, according to the arrangement of the county party committee and the county government, we hold 1 to 2 training courses or special remedial classes every year to give centralized theoretical guidance to retired veteran comrades directly under the county and party branch secretaries of county-level veteran cadres, so that veteran comrades can always keep up with the pace and requirements of the times. We always insist that the first class of each major every semester is politics, all of which are lectured by the principal, Comrade Cui. He repeatedly preached to veteran comrades that supporting the party's leadership and the socialist system is the minimum political quality of veteran comrades and also the need to safeguard their own vital interests. We have worked with the producers of * * * for a lifetime. When we are old, the Party gives us a pension, and lets us sit in this classroom which is warm in winter and cool in summer and go to the university for the aged. If the Party is not in power, who cares about us? Who do we ask for a pension from? After the former Soviet Union's * * * production party fell from power and influence, many old Red Army and generals were left unattended and had no food. Isn't that a living example? Furthermore, if there is no socialist harmony and stability, we old people will suffer the most, because we can't run away from young people in any case when we avoid chaos. Therefore, we veteran comrades must consciously safeguard the party's leadership and the socialist system. After listening, the students said that such a political lesson without preaching was unpretentious, practical and interesting, and was deeply inspired after listening.
In the course setting, we should respect the wishes of the vast majority of veteran comrades and set up majors that veteran comrades are willing to learn, require to learn and apply what they have learned in a timely manner. 20 1 1 In the spring, outdoor dance specialty was added on the basis of setting up microcomputer, poetry and music majors in the city's senior universities. Since then, there are vigorous figures of old comrades everywhere inside and outside the campus of the university for the aged, and melodious songs are floating around.
The instability of students has always been an important factor affecting the improvement of teaching level in universities for the elderly, and it is also a difficult point that we should pay attention to overcome. In order to better solve this problem, since the beginning of this year, we have taken targeted measures to improve or perfect teaching management services on the basis of finding the root causes. First of all, we have improved some professional teaching methods. In view of the fact that it is difficult for elderly students to accept professional theories and are more willing to learn specific knowledge and skills, we have changed the focus of theoretical teaching and practical teaching to practical teaching, supplemented by theoretical teaching, which has been welcomed by students, and the number of students in these majors has gradually increased from time to time and tends to be stable. Secondly, flexible and diverse teaching forms suitable for the characteristics of the elderly, the combination of classroom teaching and social practice, and the combination of going out and inviting in have achieved good results. Every year, students majoring in calligraphy are organized to write couplets, slogans, etc. for the masses in the society together with the elderly book association and other departments, so that they feel that they have applied what they have learned and have a sense of accomplishment; Organize music class students to often participate in the county-wide cultural performances to improve themselves in social practice activities; Organize students from poetry classes and art classes to visit and study in county-owned enterprises and rural areas. Then, in deepening the service, students' awareness that they should put themselves in the old comrades' shoes and optimize the learning environment has been strengthened. In addition to providing air conditioners, water separators and disposable water tanks for students, we often go to Heze, Kaifeng and other places to wholesale school supplies such as pens, ink and paper. The original price is provided to students, and the expenses are borne by the school, which is very popular among students. Some students want to buy materials or books, and the retail price is undoubtedly much higher, so the school contacted them and ordered them at the wholesale price. A book that costs 100 to 200 yuan is often bought for tens of yuan, saving money for students. Only in this way can students save about 1 ten thousand yuan in study expenses every year. We have never confiscated any fees for students' admission, which is the only one in the province. In addition, we often print some study materials or books and distribute them to students for free. Therefore, many old comrades sincerely say that it is a kind of enjoyment to learn whatever they want without spending money on senior college, and to save money by not going out to buy things.
It is a common problem for old comrades to learn what they see if they are not specialized in learning. In order to ensure students' success in old age, we mobilized every student to choose the major of 1 to 2, and made a breakthrough in key research. After several years of hard work, students' studies are basically good now.
Teaching management services and professional level have been significantly improved. When it comes to the rapid improvement of teaching business and students' skills, the teachers and students of the whole school feel the deepest. At the beginning of the class, students' homework in art class and calligraphy class was hung on the wall, and most of them were at most the graffiti level of primary school students. After five years' efforts, today, looking at the works displayed by the students, we can say that they have entered the art palace, and everything is fine. Two teachers and students were hired as members of China Calligraphers Association and China Artists Association. In just 20 1 1 year, 35 people were accepted as members of the China Society of Painting and Calligraphy for the Aged, making it the largest number of senior universities in all counties and districts of the province. By the end of this year, the Golden Autumn Poetry Society, which was established with students majoring in poetry as the backbone, has edited and published 20 issues of Golden Autumn Magazine and selected more than 960 poems. Among them, more than 20 newspapers and periodicals at or above the municipal level were selected/kloc-0. Throughout the year, teachers and students participated in the painting and calligraphy exhibition at or above the county level 1000 times, and won more than 600 awards at or above the city level, and their works were selected into more than 300 paintings and calligraphy collections at or above the county level. Among them, in the calligraphy and painting contest to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China held by the China Society of Calligraphy and Painting for the Aged, only 37 people in the province won the prize, and 6 students from our county's senior college. This is a concentrated display of old comrades' learning achievements, and it is also a true portrayal of old comrades' colorful life in their later years.