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After taking office, Gao Weiyuan, President of Tsinghua University, went to the United States to participate in the presidential selection debate. The School Council yesterday decided to shelve the original proposal and instead conduct a census of the approximately 20,000 faculty and students across the school.
Controversy continues to grow over Gao Weiyuan, President of Taiwan’s Tsinghua University, looking for a job in the United States. Tsinghua University held a school affairs meeting yesterday, at which it was decided to postpone the school’s opinion survey proposed by the school supervisory committee and conduct an opinion survey of only the school’s 20,000 faculty and students, excluding alumni, to investigate whether Gao’s behavior harms the school’s reputation and has a negative impact on the school’s affairs. However, there was no specific discussion during the meeting on when the school-wide census would be conducted and when the results would be declared.
Reason for the incident: Gao Weiyuan was approved for re-election as President of Tsinghua University in March 2025, and his second term will start on May 1, 2026. However, only three days after taking office (May 4–5), it was revealed that he had traveled to the United States to participate in the selection for president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
Tsinghua University held a school affairs meeting adjournment meeting on October 20 this year, and held an additional meeting yesterday. The School Supervisory Committee’s proposal was examined among alumni, professors, staff, and students of Tsinghua University. After three hours of discussion and the proposal was put forward by the school representatives, the proposal of the School Supervisory Committee was postponed through secret voting.
Later in the meeting, delegates proposed amending the Board of School Supervisors’ opinion survey to a school-wide census by excluding alumni. An opinion survey of approximately 20,000 faculty and students will be conducted. Two questions will be asked to clarify the impact and impact of the Gao Weiyuan case.
It is understood that the first headline is “President Gao Weiyuan’s involvement in the selection of the president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, which has damaged the reputation of Tsinghua University” and the second headline is “The President’s involvement in the selection of the president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa has had a negative impact on the development of school affairs.” The respondents can check the options like strongly disagree, disagree, no opinion, agree and strongly agree.
Some school representatives believe that the Gao Weiyuan incident may drag on like an eight o’clock TV series.
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Because after being re-elected and before the official start of his second term, he went to the United States to participate in the selection of president of the University of Hawaii at Manoa just three days after taking office. The outside world questioned whether the move would affect Tsinghua University’s reputation and operations.
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The meeting first held a secret vote to shelve the opinion survey proposed by the school Board of Supervisors, and then passed a modified version to exclude alumni and conduct a survey of the opinions of approximately 20,000 faculty, staff and students across the school.
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The census is expected to focus on two questions, namely whether Gao Weiyuan’s involvement in the selection of the University of Hawaii president has harmed the reputation of Tsinghua University, and whether it has had a negative impact on the development of school affairs, allowing faculty and students to express their opinions.
