Since March 2022, new COVID-19 cases appeared successively in Quanzhou, Xiamen and other places in Fujian Province. Facing the severe epidemic situation, the Party Committee of International College actively responded to the school's call, accurately identified the changes, scientifically judged, combined with the college's cross- campus situation, focusing on the learning and living needs of teachers and students at the first time, deploying work according to the local conditions, leading the teachers and students of the whole college to implement various epidemic prevention and control work, and weaving a dense campus epidemic prevention and control network to maintain a safe and healthy campus environment.

Strictly Implement the Epidemic Prevention Work with Timely Response, Scientific Judgement, and Measures Suitable to Local Conditions

On March 14, after attending the school epidemic prevention and control arrangement meeting, International College held the epidemic prevention and control arrangement meeting immediately. IC leaders clearly pointed out that we should effectively improve the sense of responsibility and mission of doing a good job in the epidemic prevention and control, and stressed that all teachers and students of IC should strictly implement epidemic prevention and control measures and do a good job in personal protection in strict accordance with the requirements of school epidemic prevention and control.

With the escalation of the epidemic situation, according to the deployment of the school's epidemic prevention and control work, International College has urgently started a comprehensive survey and arrangement work as soon as possible to fully grasp the health conditions and travel trajectories of teachers and students, especially the situation of teachers and students in key areas of epidemic prevention and control, and achieve the goal of being clear about the situation, and the data is accurate. At the same time, the "daily report and zero report" system is strictly implemented, and the grid-based fine management ensures that 100% of the teachers and students of the college complete the daily health check. The college immediately strengthened building management and environmental disinfection, strictly implemented temperature measurement, wearing masks, one-meter distance, and showing the health codes and itinerary codes. Strengthen the cleaning and disinfection of offices, classrooms and other public places, elevators and other public facilities and public utensils. Strengthen garbage classification management and do a good job in cleaning garbage containers. The college actively organizes teachers and students in the school to participate in multiple rounds of nucleic acid testing organized by the school, so as to achieve the test with "zero omissions".

From March 19, the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of International College and the class counselors settled in the dormitory park. They visited all the student dormitory, distributed masks and other anti-epidemic materials, paid attention to the students' anti-epidemic measures, psychological status, dormitory culture construction, academic planning, dining needs, etc., and went deep into the dormitory to provide psychological counseling and comfort for students with impetuous emotions and psychological panic; urge students to make good use of their time in school and cherish the opportunity of online learning; strengthen the publicity of prevention and control knowledge, effectively implement emergency response, isolation and observation, etc., and inject solid strength into the fight against the epidemic.

From March 19th to 20th, according to the school's epidemic prevention and control deployments, the college held two meetings on the college's epidemic prevention and control deployment, thoroughly studying and implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech at the meeting of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China on March 17. According to the requirements of the "Notice on the Prevention and Control of Epidemic on the Campus of Xiamen University" ([2022] No.2), International College continues to upgrade the prevention and control plan. Combing with the epidemic prevention and control policies of the two campuses, the college carried out scientific deployment, discussion of online teaching plans, and strictly implemented various epidemic prevention and control work, set up a college emergency commando, guarantee the reserve of anti-epidemic materials, implement closed management of the building, adhere to the daily sanitation and killing strengthen the grid health management of teachers and students, and implement the flexibility of faculty and staff entry management, etc., do a good job of humanistic care for teachers and students living in the health observation area, prepare for public opinion response, strengthen epidemic prevention health education and publicity, and improve teachers and students' awareness of epidemic prevention and self-protection capabilities.

Scientific deployment of teaching work, efficient linkage, and strict classroom management

According to the No. 2 Announcement on Campus Epidemic Prevention and Control, the school fully implements online teaching. The leaders of the Party Committee of International College attached great importance to it. On the morning of March 20, an online teaching work meeting was quickly held, and a teaching service guarantee team composed of administrative staff, teaching secretaries, class counselors, and technicians was established. On March 21, the college fully launched online teaching activities. In order to strengthen classroom teaching management, standardize the online classroom teaching order, and strict attendance is carried out. The attendance data of students are simultaneously input into the educational administration system of the college, and the online learning status of students is included in the daily assessment. Each class is equipped with an administrative teacher as the "deputy head teacher". According to the class schedule, the deputy head teachers will attend classes and cooperate with the class counsellors to follow up the situation of each student. For those students who did not attend classes online in time, the "deputy head teacher" called to them to attend class as soon as possible, and set up the learning files for each student, formed a daily class situation table, and timely provides feedback of students' class and school situation.

There are 110 classes of the foundation program on the Zhangzhou Campus and Xiang'an Campus and 363 courses are offered this week. The course categories include professional courses, English courses, Japanese courses, art courses, and ideological and political courses. The Dublin program started 10 professional courses online this week.

Concerned about students' campus life, "Cloud Anti-epidemic" in action with Students as the Main Body

During the epidemic prevention and control period, the college also designed and released the epidemic prevention and control theme posters and epidemic prevention measures on the college official account, college LED display screen, and student dormitory bulletin boards.

In order to improve students' awareness of epidemic prevention and help students adapt to campus life under the epidemic situation as soon as possible, with the college as the leading role and students as the main body, the youth force is introduced into the campus epidemic prevention and control system. The "Self-Improvement" New Youth Network Culture Studio of the International College evolves with the times and the situation. It starts from the concerns and issues of the students, makes concerted efforts.  Students participates in the studio and make full use of the advantages of new media platforms, using Vlog and other forms that young people like to see to release micro-videos on campus learning and life demonstrations such as anti-epidemic spirit preaching, epidemic prevention tips, active cooperation with nucleic acid testing, anti- fraud on campus, and active response to the canteen's comprehensive take-out policy on the official video account of the college. As of March 25, a total of 7 micro-videos have been released, attracting more than 12,990 views.

At present, the epidemic situation is still complex and changeable. International College will continue to strictly implement the school's unified deployment and prevention and control requirements, gather the strength of teachers and students in the whole college, and work together to fight the epidemic. Strictly and tightly, take multiple measures, respond scientifically, and keep integrity and innovation, improve the level of education and teaching under the normalization of epidemic prevention and control, resolutely win the battle of epidemic prevention and control, maintain a safe and healthy campus environment, respond calmly, move forward with determination, and wait for the epidemic to disperse and spring to bloom.