Recently, Department of Education of Shandong Province issued the Notice on Announcement of the 2021 Undergraduate Teaching Reform Research Projects List. Two projects of the School of Journalism and Communication were adopted as key projects: Professor Liu Mingyang's Research on innovation and practice of the “Fusion Type” collaborative education mechanism of business, science, gouvernment, industry, education and research, and Professor Qiu Ling's Construction of the education mode of excellent talents of journalism and communication based on red news culture.

Since its establishment, the School of Journalism and Communication has actively explored new models, new directions, new theories, and new methods for undergraduate education. The school will leverage this opportunity of this project by giving full play to the school's education characteristics and advantages in order to promote deeply the reform of undergraduate education and teaching and innovate the talent training mechanism. This will improve the quality of talent training in the school. Furthermore, the school will also encourage professors to actively carry out research on the reform of undergraduate education in order to accelerate the construction of a first-class talent training system, and further deepen the comprehensive reform of education.