The college draws on the model of Princeton University's residential college to introduce a student guidance system. Senior students or graduate students with excellent academic and academic performance are the guidance students and are responsible for leading 20-30 boarders (7-8 dormitories form a community). The Student Guidance Committee is a student team composed of all the mentors. It aims to better build the mentoring team, enhance the communication and communication between the mentoring students, improve the mentoring work ability, and strengthen the cohesion of the mentoring team.

　　The student guidance work in the college is an important measure for the self-management of the boarding students. The instructor is mainly responsible for the work of each small team. The task is to assist the residents to grow into talents, build a community culture, enhance the residents' sense of identity and belonging, and strengthen the students' self-management and self-service. For example, the dormitory exchange work of the college students is completely managed by the students themselves. The "Interim Management Measures for the Exchange of Dormitories of Zhicheng College Students" mainly organized and formulated by the Student Guidance Committee, according to which a temporary student committee is established to be responsible for the dormitories of the students on a regular basis Exchange application. Through the development of student guidance, an effective mechanism of self-help, mutual assistance and other assistance for college students is formed to enhance students' self-management ability and enhance their independence.

Shantou University learned from the advanced educational concepts and experience of excellent overseas universities and took the lead in establishing the first four-year full-course residential college for undergraduates in mainland universities, Zhicheng College, and began to reform the student training model. The academy breaks the form of arranging student accommodation and extracurricular activities in colleges, departments, and classes, which is common in domestic universities, and adopts a life mode that is closer to the real society of students of different majors and different grades. More care, support, and a broader space for development potential, to provide the best quality educational environment; through the establishment of community activity platforms such as the party group, student union, and student interest club organizations, as well as the college team, discipline, physical fitness, psychology and career, etc. The development of five types of expansion courses establishes the cultivation of self-confidence, independence and social responsibility, enhances students’ overall quality, and implements the education of “how to be a human” in the community of college students, so that students’ life, learning, and growth can be integrated and promote Body, mind, and spirit develop in an all-round and healthy way.

Focusing on the overall goal of Shantou University’s reform, Zhicheng Academy uses the Academy as a platform to provide better services and more powerful support for the healthy growth of students. In essence, it promotes the integration of professional education and humanistic education, and promotes students to think and practice "building self , Pursue the concept of educating people without self. The academy uses the Latin Veritas as the English name, and the Chinese name is derived from "The Doctrine of the Mean" "Only the world is sincere, to do its best". It inherits and promotes China's excellent traditional culture as its education concept, and thereby establishes the right of students. The sense of identity of the academy’s culture and spirit will build a warm humanistic community.