Educational Positioning: To cultivate high-quality skilled talents for the economic construction and development of Dalian and coastal regions.
Development Goals: To build the college into a higher vocational institution closely connected with local economic construction, featuring advanced and complete campus facilities and equipment, noble teacher ethics and exquisite professional competence, strong professional capabilities and high comprehensive quality among students, a rich campus cultural atmosphere, distinctive educational characteristics, and high recognition from employers.
Guiding Principles: With promoting employment as the orientation and serving regional economic development as the purpose, adhere to the guiding ideology of "Education evolves with the market, major construction evolves with industrial changes, and talent cultivation evolves with social needs." Following the policy of "Proactive Service, Proactive Adaptation," adapt to the development and changes of the market economy, with improving talent cultivation quality as the core, serving society, enterprises, and students.
Educational Approach: Adhere to the development approach of "Quality First, Connotation-Oriented, Scale Expansion"—laying foundations in three years, reaching new levels in five years, and achieving excellence in ten years. In the talent cultivation process, highlight faculty development, major construction, curriculum development, practical training base construction, and the enhancement of students' comprehensive capabilities and qualities. Build a talent cultivation model of "Competency-Based, Seamless School-to-Job Transition." Start with the "Three Grasps" (grasping systems, grasping order, grasping quality) and "Four Presentations" (presenting majors, presenting courses, presenting systems, presenting services) to improve quality, manage efficiently, highlight characteristics, and achieve scientific development.
Student Management Approach: Student management consistently adheres to ideological education as the main thread, formative education as the means, class atmosphere construction as the breakthrough point, and the "Four Civilizations Education" (learning civilization, behavioral civilization, language civilization, life civilization) as the entry point. Following the educational principle of "Strictness + Care + Appreciation," comprehensively improve students' comprehensive capabilities and qualities. The goal system for competency and quality cultivation has been established as "Six Competencies" + "12341," implementing all-round education through moral cognition in classrooms, moral practice on campus, and social practice expansion outside campus. The Six Competencies are: ability to distinguish right from wrong, independent learning ability, practical operation ability, interpersonal communication ability, psychological resilience ability, and self-management ability. "12341" refers to: one quality (integrity in conduct), two attitudes (doing things conscientiously and being optimistic and open-minded), three spirits (diligence and self-improvement, proactive progress, and unity and cooperation), four awarenesses (responsibility, initiative, obedience, and learning), and one heart (gratitude and thankfulness).
In the development process of the college, the "One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six" educational philosophy has been summarized:
"One Goal": Create nationally distinctive vocational education and ensure successful employment for every student.
"Two Initiatives": Proactive adaptation and continuous innovation; proactive service and excellence in refinement (Three Services: to society, to students and parents, and to enterprises).
"Three Satisfactions": Students are satisfied with teachers, parents are satisfied with the college, and employers are satisfied with students.
"Four Alignments": Align majors with the market, align courses with positions, align teaching with competencies, and align employment with enterprises.
"Five-Heart Education": Love, patience, carefulness, perseverance, and confidence.
"Six Awarenesses": Quality awareness, responsibility awareness, service awareness, innovation awareness, learning awareness, and development awareness.
