1. History of running a school Northwest Normal University is a key university jointly established by the Gansu Provincial People's Government and the Ministry of Education, and one of the 14 universities in the western region supported by the state. Its predecessor was National Beiping Normal University, and its predecessor was Shi Jing University Teachers College, which was established in 1902. 19 12 was changed to "National Beijing Normal University" and 1923 was changed to "National Beiping Normal University". 1937 after the "July 7th Incident", the National Beiping Normal University, together with the National Beiping University and Beiyang Institute of Technology, which moved westward at the same time, formed Northwest United University, and the National Beiping Normal University was reorganized into an education college under Northwest United University, and later changed to a normal college. 1939 The Teachers' College of Northwest United University was established independently, renamed as National Northwest Teachers' College, and moved to Lanzhou in 194 1 year. After War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression's victory, the National Northwest Normal College continued to run schools in Lanzhou. At the same time, Beiping Normal University (now Beijing Normal University) was restored. Before 1958, the school was one of the six national key normal universities directly under the Ministry of Education. From 1958, it was placed under the leadership of Gansu Province and renamed as Gansu Normal University. 198 1 renamed Northwest Normal University. 1988 was renamed Northwest Normal University.

2. Organization 1985 The Ministry of Education has established the Northwest Minority Teacher Training Center directly under the Ministry of Education and established by colleges and universities, and implemented a two-in-one management system with the school. From 65438 to 0987, the State Council established the "Tibet Teacher Training Center" in schools. In 20 12, the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office established the "Northwest Normal University Chinese Education Base" based on the school. There are national local joint engineering laboratories 1, national key research bases of humanities and social sciences 1, national research institutes 1, 2 national teaching teams, key laboratories of the Ministry of Education 1, 2 innovation teams of the Ministry of Education, 2 research centers of the Ministry of Education, 6 provincial key research bases of humanities and social sciences and 4 provincial key laboratories. The school now has 27 secondary colleges (65 departments and 3 teaching departments), 1 independent colleges and 3 Confucius Institutes.

3. Conditions for running a school The school has good conditions for running a school. The headquarters covers an area of 960 mu, the new campus covers an area of 729 mu, and the ecological training base is about 1300 mu. The total planned building area of the school building is 833,000 square meters, including 275,000 square meters of teaching auxiliary rooms. The total value of all kinds of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 310.523 million yuan, and there are more than 4.039 million copies of various literature resources. The school has built a modern public education service network system with distance education, comprehensive educational administration, campus computer network, communication network and cable TV network as the main body.

Since its independent establishment, the talent training school has trained more than 230,000 students of all kinds. The school enrolls students for 3 1 province (city, autonomous region) in China, with 300 1 1 person. Among them, undergraduate students1813, doctoral students 392, master students 6 1465438, international students 330 and continuing education students 5035. Implementing the undergraduate teaching reform project for six consecutive periods. In 2003, the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education was excellent; In 2008, the English major of the Ministry of Education was excellent. 20 10 was rated as an advanced unit of school art education in China.

5. Teaching staff The school has a teaching staff with reasonable structure and excellent quality. There are 2078 faculty members, 307 with full senior titles, 694 with associate senior titles, 586 with doctor's degrees and 9 13 with master's degrees. Among them, there are 272 full-time teachers 1272, 280 professors and 5 associate professors19. There are 0/23 doctoral supervisors and 898 master supervisors. At present, there are 4 double-hired academicians, 2 national "Ten Thousand Talents Program", 2 national cultural experts and "Four Groups" talents 1 person, 2 "Changjiang Scholar" distinguished professor, 2 national famous teachers 1 person, 2 national advanced workers, 2 national excellent teachers 1 person, and "a good teacher satisfied by the party and the people. 106 There are 3 young college teachers awarded by the Ministry of Education, 13 outstanding talents support program of the Ministry of Education in the new century, 52 first-and second-class leading talents in Gansu Province, 23 special flight scholars program in Gansu Province, and 65438+ provincial famous teachers. The school has hired more than 100 well-known experts and scholars at home and abroad as special or part-time professors. Famous professors, such as li jinxi, Yuan Dunli, Dong Shouyi, Li Jianxun, Hu Guoyu, Lv Sibai, Kong, Chang Shuhong, Chen Yong, Huang Zhou, Peng Duo, Guo Jinxi, Li Bingde, Jin Baoxiang, Jin and Nan Guonong, have taught in the school successively.

6. The school with discipline characteristics is the first unit in the State Council with the right to award bachelor's degree, master's degree and doctor's degree. At present, there are 9 post-doctoral research stations in education, China language and literature, history, mathematics, chemistry, physics, Marxist theory, geography and psychology, 7 doctoral degrees in education, chemistry, China language and literature, China history, mathematics, physics and geography, 57 doctoral two disciplines, 30 master's degrees in first-class disciplines, 164 master's two disciplines. There are 2 national key (cultivation) disciplines, 32 provincial key disciplines, 7 provincial dominant disciplines and 77 undergraduate majors (among which 9 majors, including English, Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, Fine Arts, Chinese Language and Literature, Geography, Physics, History, Chemistry and Biological Sciences, are national specialties), forming a reasonable degree authorization system, covering philosophy, economics, law and other disciplines.

7. Scientific research schools have strong scientific research capabilities and have always attached importance to the combination of Industry-University-Research. In recent years, social science has outstanding advantages and distinctive features in the research of China ancient literature, northwest history and geography, curriculum and teaching theory, ethnic education, ancient books collation, Dunhuang studies and other disciplines. Natural science has in-depth research in polymer chemistry and physics, basic mathematics, atomic and molecular physics, educational technology and other fields. The quantity and quality of basic theoretical research results have been steadily improved by SCIE, ranking about 10 in the national normal university, and 1% in chemistry before entering the global ranking of ESI. The school has won a number of high-level scientific research awards, including more than 560 provincial and ministerial awards, including the national "Five One Projects" award 1 item, the outstanding achievement award of humanities and social sciences research of the Ministry of Education 1 item (including the first prize 1 item), and the national outstanding achievement award of educational science research1item (including two items) Second prize 1 item for outstanding achievements in scientific research (science and technology) in institutions of higher learning of the Ministry of Education, 9 1 item for provincial science and technology award, 495 items for outstanding achievements in social sciences and 35 items for Dunhuang literature and art award.

8. International cooperative schools pay attention to international cooperation and exchanges and actively promote the international development strategy. We have established long-term and stable strategic cooperative relations with foreign universities, such as Middle Tennessee State University, Southern Illinois State University, Khartoum University, University of Hooverhampton, Belarusian State Normal University, University of Auckland, University of Malaya, University of Hong Kong, Tsinghua University and Taiwan Province Province. We have signed academic cooperation and exchange agreements with more than 70 overseas scientific research institutions, and carried out substantive cooperation in joint training of students, mutual visits of teachers and scientific research. At present, the school has established the Confucius Institute in cooperation with Khartoum University in Sudan, Free International University in Moldova and Sarajevo University in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

9. affiliated school northwest normal university now has an affiliated education group, including affiliated middle schools, affiliated middle schools, affiliated primary schools and kindergartens. They are all demonstration schools in Gansu Province and Lanzhou City, and they have a good social reputation. They are the window schools and educational practice bases for the education and teaching reform of Northwest Normal University.

10. Social service schools actively adapt to the needs of regional economic construction and social development, highlight their distinctive advantages, focus on improving quality, and make outstanding contributions to serving local development. First, the strength of normal education and education disciplines is strong, and efforts are made to promote the development of basic education and ethnic education in our province and northwest China. Second, humanities and social sciences have outstanding advantages and focus on serving government planning and decision-making and the construction of demonstration areas. Third, the basic research level of natural science is relatively high, and efforts are made to consolidate the knowledge source of scientific and technological progress and independent innovation in our province. Fourth, it is well-known in the fields of art and sports, and strives to enhance the influence and competitiveness of our province's culture. Fifth, with close integration, Industry-University-Research strongly supports our province's strategy of innovation-driven, transformation and leapfrog development.

1 1. Orientation of running a school The school holds high the banner of normal education, insists on moral education and teacher development, highlights teaching priorities, organically combines scientific research with teaching, organically combines inheritance characteristics with innovation and reform, organically combines its own development with serving the society, consolidates the foundation of basic disciplines of morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, strengthens the social demand orientation and practicability of applied disciplines, and beautifies the educational environment. We will build a characteristic road to cultivate students' humanistic feelings, international vision, systematic thinking, critical and innovative thinking and information application ability, build a high-level university with distinctive teacher education characteristics, and strive to cultivate more outstanding teachers who are satisfied with the people and high-quality talents who meet the requirements of the national rejuvenation era.