On the afternoon of October 17, the School of Art and Design held an All-Staff Meeting and an Employment Work Conference in the teaching building of the Changning Campus. The meeting was presided over by Li Yunxian, Secretary of the School's Party Committee.

Li Yunxian led a study session on documents including the "Ten Professional Conduct Guidelines for Shanghai Higher Education Faculty in the New Era." She emphasized that all faculty members must thoroughly study and comprehend each guideline, using the "primary standard of professional ethics and conduct" to anchor the direction of educating students, firmly establish the red lines and bottom lines of professional ethics, strengthen the concept of holistic and collaborative education across all positions, and strictly adhere to safety boundaries. Furthermore, she stressed the importance of integrating knowledge with action, translating these guidelines into actionable guides for teaching and educating. She outlined the following work requirements: First, maintain a firm political direction to ensure all tasks are aligned and synchronized with the fundamental goal of nurturing students. Second, actively implement the "Three-Rotor" development strategy, promoting disciplinary integration from a higher perspective and with more concrete measures. Third, strictly uphold safety boundaries to fortify the foundation for the school's stable development. Fourth, enhance employment services to promote more sufficient and higher-quality employment for the 2026 graduating class.

Dean Gao Zhu outlined strategic deployments for the school's development: focusing on the goal of building a "world-class application-oriented innovative university," deepening the implementation of the "Rainforest-style" talent cultivation model; highlighting the "Three-Rotor" development framework, with emphasis on strengthening the core role of "Design-Driven Engineering + Management" in talent cultivation and resource integration; fully advancing the new round of doctoral program application; expanding strategic cooperation with world-class universities and diversifying resource channels; and optimizing internal governance efficiency, using strict baseline requirements to ensure the realization of strategic objectives.

Liu Jiang, Deputy Secretary of the School's Party Committee, provided a comprehensive deployment for the employment work of the 2026 graduates, clarifying work milestones and responsibility assignments. Other responsible leaders also detailed arrangements for undergraduate teaching, scientific research, international cooperation, and student management for the current semester.

This meeting not only clarified the school's future development path and core tasks for the semester but also, using the doctoral program application as a key opportunity, set the direction for accelerating the construction of a world-class application-oriented innovative design discipline. Moving forward, the school will continue to strengthen faculty development, deepen the reform of the educational model, fully support student growth and success, accumulate strength for cultivating high-quality talents in the design field, and drive the high-quality development of design disciplines.