On the afternoon of January 14, 2019, the School of Mathematics voted new members of the Academic Committee at B924 Meeting Room of Zhixin Building. Chen Zengjing, Dean of Mathematics School, chaired the new election. Prof. Peng Shige, former director of the Academic Committee attended the election with all professional and technical staff holding ranks above the deputy senior level of the school.

The Academic Committee is the highest academic institution of the School. It exercises the power of decision-making, evaluation, deliberation and consultation of academic affairs coordinately. Before the election, the School held a symposium composed of institute directors and Party Secretaries. Meanwhile, it solicited opinions of teachers, members of the former Academic Committee and carried out a great deal of preparatory work. As a result, Electing Regulation for the Academic Committee of the Mathematics School in 2019, was formulated. According to Regulation, the new Academic Committee will consists of 15 members, including one chairman and two vice chairmen. The dean will act as the title member and the other 14 members will be voted by secret ballot. In order to select the most suitable candidates of the Academic Committee, full consideration should be given to their academic level, morality and prominence. Besides, the discipline they are studying should cover the secondary discipline to a larger degree. Moreover, the research institute and specialty distribution shall be fully taken into account.

The election proceeded in strict compliance with the details of the Regulation and the venue was kept in good order. Teachers who participated in the voting checked out candidates' names carefully and gave enough concern to the composition of discipline and professionals. After two rounds of voting, 15 professors including Prof.Peng Shige were elected as members of the new Academic Committee.

After the meeting, the new members held the first plenary session of the Academic Committee, at which Prof. Peng Shige was voted as the director of the new Academic Committee, Chen Zengjing and Hu Xijun as deputy directors. Prof. Peng Shige noted that the new Academic Committee should uphold the spirit of academics first, fulfill their duties in a fair, just and open manner and always maintain their integrity and righteousness. At present, the key task is to do well in the development of various disciplines, especially in the introduction of talents and balanced development of disciplines.

The new Academic Committee will be devoted in improving and standardizing the academic management system and mechanism. Bearing the mission in mind, they will actively explore effective ways to conduct the model of professors governing academic studies. In a bidding to promote academic prosperity and step up discipline construction and progress, the new Academic Committee will give full play to their initiative in discipline construction, academic evaluation, academic development and academic style construction .