“If Wuhan Wins, Hubei Wins. If Hubei Wins, the Whole Country Wins.”
Since the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia epidemic, all Chinese people including our whole faculties and students have a common concern—Hubei. In the face of current severe pandemic, all faculties and staff are at different places, but our heart are firmly tied with every Hubei students together!
“Comprehensive screening, accurate assistance”
The Student Affairs Office and the Graduate School promptly responded to the relevant notice issued by the Ministry of Education about prevention and containment against the epidemic when it occurred, and established the Student Work Leading Group for the “Novel Coronavirus Prevention and Control”, and formulated the “Prevention and Control Plan on the Novel Coronavirus-Caused Pneumonia in the Student Affairs Apartment”. The relevant knowledge of “ Novel Coronavirus Infection Prevention” was forwarded to all students and “paying close attention to students in Wuhan” was clearly required.
After the outbreak, the Student Affairs Office and the Graduate School strived to accurately grasp the information of Hubei students, and organized the school counselors to conduct detailed information screening. The comprehensive statistics on the names, colleges, grades, addresses and contact information of 427 undergraduates and 139 graduates from Hubei Province have been provided with guarantee of basic data for accurate assistance. At the same time, the one-to-one contact mechanism was established for Hubei students. The deputy secretaries and counselors of 19 colleges (departments) conducted telephone communication one by one to collect the information about students’ recent physical health, psychological health, life and learning status, etc., to stabilize the students’ mentality and solve the puzzles, and immediately achieve a full coverage of the contact work of the deputy secretary from all departments which Hubei students belong to. The dean and secretary of these colleges have also contacted Hubei students through videos, WeChat and other means to pay attention to their learning and life. So far, there has been no one confirmed or suspected case among 566 Hubei students from Northeast Normal University.
“Go where there is epidemic, fight it till it perishes.” All the staff of the Student Affairs Office and the Graduate School are striving to make a comprehensive screening and detailed investigation, and to take matters of Hubei students as the top priority, and care for the safety of every Hubei student all the time.
“To make the psychological work of epidemic prevention deeply in students’ heart”
“Well! It’s so great that you can think like this! Calm down and accept your tension.” “It's also important to maintain a regular schedule. I can work out a daily work schedule with you.” “If it makes you uncomfortable, you can chat more with friends and classmates.” The teachers of the Psychological Development Guidance Center treated each online consultation like this patiently and meticulously.
After the outbreak of epidemic, the five teachers of the center scientifically judged the possible psychological impact of pandemic on students, especially Hubei students, and quickly communicated with the colleges. They promptly established a three-level linkage mechanism of “psychological center-psychological commissioners of colleges(departments)-peer counselors and psychological committee member” and opened online psychological counseling for epidemic prevention. The 43 indicators of four dimensions of Hubei students' living, personal, relatives and psychological status were investigated, and the students were divided into four levels according to the impact of the epidemic situation, and then specific guidance and assistance were given to students according to the actual situation.
Long distance does not separate love, and the lockdown of city and road does not seal off heart. The teachers of the Psychological Development Guidance Center give full play to their professional advantages in the face of the epidemic and actively accompany with “heart”. Some teachers flew to Changchun for the first time to fight boldly and took on important tasks; some teachers maintained online communication with the students for a long time regardless of eye discomfort, just in order to relieve the students' anxiety. Eventually we make sure to cooperate with the school's epidemic prevention work, and implement psychological support services to every Hubei student. Passing on our hearts, we build an invisible protective wall for the students in face of the epidemic; keeping them warm, we help the students to get through the difficulties at special times; expressing our love, we are always with them despite a great distance.
“Safeguard form Multi-party, Transmission of warmth”
Where there is epidemic, there is a battlefield. In this war without smoke, every department that runs day and night to defeat the epidemic, every staff who sticks to the post to protect the safety of teachers and students, and every teacher who worries about the safety of students all the time, they are all making unremitting efforts for the physical and mental of Hubei students.
The Student Employment Guidance Service Center vigorously strengthens the construction of employment market, sending letters to all graduates and employers, integrating the information of all employers, making full use of the network platform to realize online publicity, double selection, interview, consultation and other functions, and launches personalized recruitment cloud service of “Online Recruitment, Publicity and Double Selection”, and pay close attention to and serve this year’s graduates, especially Hubei graduates, and provide better service for them.
“If the delay of resuming work and lockdown of city and roads have an impact on the family, please tell us so that school will help you solve the financial difficulties!” After the announcement of lockdown of many cities in Hubei Province and delay of national resuming work, the party brunch of Student Assistance Administration immediately organized several special conferences through online video, telephone conferences, etc., and established four publicity groups to consider and analyze the possible difficulties of funded Hubei students. We conducted telephone interviews with 63 funded Hubei students across the school, and cared for various problems in their lives, and formulated assistance programs based on actual conditions, and provided comprehensive support and assistance to funded Hubei students from Northeast Normal University. At the same time, the school launched the “Special Financial Assistance for Epidemic Prevention and Control” to help temporary and special family financial difficulties that have occurred since the outbreak of COVID-19.
In addition, the Communist Youth League of school issued a notice “Warm prompt from the College Students’ Union: To postpone the start of school and fight against epidemic at home!” to guide students to correctly treat the delay of opening date of school and put forward eight anti-epidemic initiatives, planning and launching a series of online activities of “cloud growth” for NENU students, and to encourage the majority of Hubei students not to be afraid of the epidemic and overcome the difficulties. The 19 colleges (departments) where Hubei students are enrolled are also cohesive and united, sticking to the principle of “Not One Less, everyone is good”, and prevent and control the epidemic carefully. We should also pay close attention to student status, collect student situation, achieve direct information on the process of screening, actively carry out joint prevention and joint control with relevant departments, effectively ensure the health and safety of all students, work hard to fight against the epidemic, and work together to overcome the difficulties and fight to win this battle.
Fear not the want of armor, for mine is also yours to wear. To agglomerate mental efforts, NENU will help you overcome difficulties; to share weal and woe, all NENU people will stand together with you. When we meet again, I welcome you from the city where the cherry blossoms again, and then enjoy the beautiful scenery in the Silent Lake. It will be a wonderful time without hardship and pain!
(From News Center, translated by Zhang Wanying, revised by Chen Yanxu)