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14:45, 15-Sep-2017
Professors become students' 'landlords' at C China university
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At the beginning of the school year, newly admitted freshmen at central China’s Wuhan International Culture University discovered a surprise – their dormitories weren't being cleaned by cleaning ladies, but by their new "landlords," their professors.
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A professor explained that the tradition of professors cleaning apartments for freshman started in 2014. It's been widely praised by students, parents and teachers, and the university decided to keep this routine by establishing a "landlord-tenant" relationship between newly admitted students and teachers.
The school assigns one professor to every two apartments as their landlord, to keep the tenant on top of their academic and everyday lives. The professors met their new tenants on the registration day.
Photo from ThePaper.cn
Photo from ThePaper.cn
The university’s unprecedented tradition has gone viral, with many criticizing this relationship as a public show, rather than actually being beneficial for the students. Others hold that professors should focus on teaching, not cleaning up their students' dorms.
However, there were also lots of supporters who thumbed up for the university’s creativity.
Staff in the university have responded by saying that their purpose is to serve the students and they would let time prove whether the new relationship would be effective.