Recently, Hedvig Tindberg, the Head Secretariat of Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME), informed us that LUSM has been officially promoted as the Advanced Signatory of the initiate. At the same time, we have been granted the right to use its logo. This not only indicates that LUSM’s educational concept and practice of leadership and social responsibility has been internationally recognized, but also shows that LUSM’s educational reform of "root in western China and look to the whole world” will further acting on international convention, so as to leading the sustainable development and educational innovation in the western China.

PRME Logos and LUSM’s Signatory Status

Developed in 2007 at the Global Compact Leaders Summit, Geneva, PRME is an initiative supported by the United Nations to stimulate and support global education, research and practice of responsible management. To date, there are more than 600 higher education institutions worldwide signing PRME including Cornell University, University of Oxford, Tsinghua University, China Europe International Business School and other well-known universities, and 11 higher education institutions including LUSM has joined PRME in mainland China. LUSM launched to signing of the Principles in October of 2017 and submitted the application in December 2018. In the first half of 2019, we have submitted our Sharing Information on Progress (SIP) report, making the signing process completed. SIP was successfully submitted and PRME signing process was completed. On the basis of summing up the concept and practice of the LUSM's responsibility education for years, the SIP report highlights the achievements of the LUSM in the field of distinctive research, high quality management education and regional embedded services. It also introduces the stakeholder’s participation, integrated training process, as well as Lanzhou Summit, the Success Plan and demonstration seminar for research and studies of students’ leadership and social responsibility to peers from home and abroad.

Screenshots of LUSM’s SIP

By signing PRME, LUSM will further promote its pilot reform, create an educational feature with leadership and social responsibility as the main line, and build a more extensive platform of international cooperation. Together with more than 600 signatories, the School will share the development experience and achievements of responsible management education and promote the sustainable development of management education. In addition, as an important support for the AACSB international accreditation, this will further promote the integration of LUSM’s education reform with international standards. In the future, LUSM will promote the transformation from outstanding to excellence with a more positive attitude of global perspective, local commitment and social responsibility in the construction of the "world-class universities and first-class disciplines" and its pilot reform, so as to accelerate the sustainable development and innovation with high-level scientific research outcomes, responsible management education and social services in western China and beyond.

【Six Principles】

Principle 1 | Purpose: We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy.

Principle 2 | Values: We will incorporate into our academic activities, curricula, and organizational practices the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact.

Principle 3 | Method: We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership.

Principle 4 | Research: We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value.

Principle 5 | Partnership: We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges.

Principle 6 | Dialogue: We will facilitate and support dialog and debate among educators, students, business, government, consumers, media, civil society organizations and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global social responsibility and sustainability.