Ankang University is the only provincial full-time general public undergraduate college in Ankang. Its main task is to cultivate applied talents with high comprehensive quality and innovative spirit. Its predecessor was Ankang College, which was founded in 1958. 1963 closed due to national economic difficulties and resumed in August 1978. 1984 was renamed Ankang Teachers College with the approval of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government in June, and was transformed into Ankang College with the approval of the Ministry of Education in February, 2006.
Ankang City is located in the south of Shaanxi Province, between Qin and Ba, on the bank of Han River, adjacent to Hubei, Chongqing and Sichuan provinces, and in the geometric center of Guanzhong, Chengyu and Jianghan economic zones, with pleasant climate, abundant resources and convenient transportation. The multi-cultural patterns of Qin, Chu, Ba and Shu blend here and become an ideal place for life and study.
The school has established the direction of "serving basic education, agriculture, countryside and farmers, and regional economic and social development", implemented characteristic development, firmly adhered to the road of localization, application and openness, strengthened the position of teaching center, actively explored the training mode of applied talents, greatly improved the conditions for running schools, accelerated the transformation and development, comprehensively improved the quality of running schools, significantly improved the reputation of running schools, and maintained a good momentum of running schools. 20 14- 12 became the first batch of pilot universities for the transformation and development of provincial public undergraduate colleges in Shaanxi province.
The school is divided into two campuses: Jiangnan and Jiangbei. The campus covers an area of 8 13 mu with a total area of 279,485.01square meter. Paper books 1 120825 volumes, electronic books 888527 volumes, and 753 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The export bandwidth of campus network is double gigabit, which is used for telecommunications and communication, teaching and learning. At present, there are full-time undergraduates 1 1252, and the subjects cover ten categories, such as law, teaching, literature, science, engineering, agriculture, management, arts, economics and medicine. Secondary college 13, undergraduate major 4 1, forming the cultivation of tea, konjac and pigs. The discipline direction of teacher education is characterized by teacher training, the discipline direction of humanities and social sciences is characterized by folk culture in southern Shaanxi, and the discipline direction of Qin-Ba resources protection and utilization is characterized by ecological economy, eco-tourism and water resources in Hanjiang River in southern Shaanxi. The school has 1 national education and training plan for outstanding talents in agriculture and forestry, 1 national specialty and comprehensive reform pilot specialty, 2 provincial specialty, 3 provincial comprehensive reform pilot specialty, 4 provincial first-class specialty, 1 provincial key disciplines, 5 provincial teaching teams, 16 provincial excellent resource sharing courses and online open courses, and provincial experiments. It has three provincial-level off-campus practical education bases for college students, three provincial-level innovative experimental zones for talent training mode, and a provincial-level pilot college for innovation and entrepreneurship 1, which is a national-level college for innovation and entrepreneurship training.
At present, there are 77 faculty members 1 person, 520 full-time teachers, 88 teachers with associate senior titles or above, 393 doctors and masters teachers, 24 teachers with dual-qualification and industrial engineering background, 6 provincial-level teaching masters and domestic famous writers1person, and they are employed as tutors of foreign schools. Five teachers were hired as chief engineers and chief agronomists of small and medium-sized enterprises in Shaanxi Province, more than 60 teachers were awarded honorary titles such as advanced workers in Shaanxi Province, "four groups" in Shaanxi Province, young science and technology stars in Shaanxi Province, the first batch of "outstanding young talents" in colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province, and model teachers in Shaanxi Province, and three teachers were selected for the "Special Support Plan" in Shaanxi Province.
The school has provincial-level scientific research platforms 10, municipal-level scientific research platforms 12, and school-level research centers, such as Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Sericulture, Shannan Folk Culture Research Center, Shannan Ecological Economic Research Center, Shaanxi Selenium-enriched Circular Agriculture Development Research Institute and Shannan Rural Revitalization Research Center, and has established six scientific and technological innovation teams. Expert workstations of Shaanxi Association for Science and Technology 1 unit, and 3 demonstration workstations for joint training of graduate students in Shaanxi Province. Up to now, teachers have undertaken various scientific research projects 13 13, such as the national social science fund, the national natural science fund and the transformation of national agricultural scientific and technological achievements, with research funding of 42.42 million yuan; Published 343 kinds of books and teaching materials; Published 5724 academic papers; Obtained the national patent112; Won 403 prizes of science and technology, philosophy and social sciences and teaching achievement at all levels. Journal of Ankang University was rated as the outstanding social science journal of national universities and the outstanding journal of national local universities.
The school adheres to the motto of "study hard, behave well, persevere and innovate", actively promotes the reform of education and teaching, and improves the teaching quality guarantee system. Since the upgrade, the school has undertaken 20 provincial and ministerial education reform projects, won the provincial teaching achievement award 18, and established 27 national and provincial vocational skill appraisal platforms. In recent three years, there have been 63 national and provincial college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training programs/kloc-0. Students won 200 national prizes and 399 provincial and ministerial prizes in mathematical modeling, challenge cup and other professional competitions, innovative skills competitions and cultural and sports competitions; Students published 82 papers, 78 books and 2 patents. College students' social practice and voluntary service activities have won many national and provincial awards. School enrollment comes from 22 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. In the past three years, the employment rate of undergraduates has remained above 90%. It was rated as an advanced collective for graduate employment and an employment and entrepreneurship guidance service institution for graduates of demonstration colleges and universities in Shaanxi Province by the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Education. The College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Incubation Park was recognized as a "national creative space" by the Ministry of Science and Technology.
The school insists on opening up schools, serving local areas, interacting with regional economy and society, and actively exploring the training mode of applied undergraduate talents to meet the needs of local economic and social development. Industry-University-Research has carried out various modes of cooperative education, signed co-construction agreements with provincial and municipal governments, and established friendly and cooperative relations with universities such as Peking University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Communication University of China, Shanghai Ocean University, Shaanxi Normal University, Northwest A&F University, Northwest University and Shaanxi University of Science and Technology. Signed an agreement with many enterprises and institutions to build a teaching and research practice base, cultivate order-based talents for enterprises, and actively carry out school-enterprise cooperation, school-land cooperation, and integration of production and education. We have cooperated with more than 20 universities in Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Poland, New Zealand, South Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada and Taiwan Province Province. Many teachers and students go abroad for further study through our cooperation channels. Every year, many excellent overseas teachers are invited to give lectures and carry out scientific research cooperation in our school. At present, there are 35 international students from 13 countries studying in our school.
* * * * *, new weather and new achievements, the school will closely focus on the main task of "accelerating transformation and development and improving the level of running a school" and uphold the principle of "hard work, unity and dedication; With the spirit of "integrity, innovation and pursuit of Excellence", Ankang University strives for the goal of building the school into a first-class application-oriented undergraduate college with characteristics and high quality in the province.