Abstract:The ideological security of colleges and universities is of great significance to safeguarding national ideological security, ensuring the direction of running socialism with Chinese characteristics, cultivating qualified socialist builders and reliable successors. The infiltration of Western ideology, the low efficiency of domestic security education, the wide spread of ideas and so on have brought great challenges to the ideological and political maintenance in colleges and universities. Comprehensively building and improving the ideological safety prevention and control mechanism, emergency mechanism, and security mechanism is undoubtedly the maintenance of long-term stability of colleges and universities