Second, the introduction of tonghua normal University
Tonghua normal College is located in Tonghua City, Jilin Province, a central city in the northeast, a livable mountain and water city in the north of China, and the happiest city in China. It is the only undergraduate college in the southeast of Jilin Province. The school is surrounded by mountains and rivers with beautiful scenery, forming a Changbai Mountain garden-style campus with Changbai Mountain as the main tone and Changbai Mountain landscape trees and plants as the main attractions.
Since the establishment of 1929, tonghua normal University has forged the spirit of "hard work", formed an excellent school spirit of "civilization, harmony, pragmatism and innovation" and accumulated the characteristics of "persisting in running schools and educating people and serving Changbai Mountain". Adhering to the motto of "advocating morality, spreading industry and keeping pace with the times", based on Jilin, facing the whole country and serving the society, the school strives to improve the quality of personnel training, the level of scientific and technological innovation and the ability of social service, promote the cultural inheritance and innovation of Changbai Mountain, actively explore the practical and applied personnel training system, and form distinctive school-running characteristics and educational characteristics, making important contributions to local economic construction and social development. At present, tonghua normal University has become an important base for teacher education in Jilin Province, scientific and cultural innovation in Changbai Mountain region, Tonghua and the cultivation of applied talents for social development in southeastern Jilin Province.
1978 was upgraded to a public undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education.
The school has 15 colleges and 42 majors, including 38 undergraduate majors and 5 junior college (higher vocational) majors, covering 8 disciplines. There are ideological and political theory teaching department, university foreign language teaching department, adult education college and educational technology and network center.
The school has a high-level teaching staff and a group of experts and scholars with excellent academic performance. There are 704 faculty members and 536 full-time teachers, including 55 professors, 65,438 associate professors and 497 teachers with doctoral and master's degrees. There are 4 excellent teaching teams at the provincial level, 2 experts enjoying special government allowance from the State Council, 2 lecturers at the provincial level 1 person, 2 young and middle-aged backbone teachers at the provincial level 1 person, 2 famous teachers at the provincial level 1 person, and 2 top-notch innovative talents.
The school has adequate teaching facilities and complete teaching conditions. At present, it covers an area of 600,000 square meters, with nearly 65.438+2,000 square meters of newly-built teaching administrative rooms and student apartments, 59 laboratories and fixed assets of 584 million yuan, of which the total assets of teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment above 800 yuan are 56.52 million yuan. There are 1939 computers for teaching, 987,000 books in the library, and 1508 domestic and foreign periodicals.
In recent years, our school has worked hard to build a practical and applied talent training model with local characteristics, formulated a talent training plan with one body and two wings, constructed a curriculum system that highlights practical and applied talent training, and vigorously promoted the construction of a "double-qualified" teacher team; Attach importance to and strengthen the discipline construction, and employ Professor Shi Ningzhong, former president of Northeast Normal University, as the director of the academic committee of the school, responsible for academic management, defining the basic ideas of discipline construction, defining the discipline direction and rallying the discipline team. The school has successively established three provincial key disciplines of professional history, botany and folklore, two provincial characteristic research bases of philosophy and social sciences-Koguryo Research Base and Changbai Mountain Cultural Research Base, 1 provincial key research base of humanities and social sciences-Koguryo and Northeast Ethnic Studies Center, 1 provincial collaborative innovation research centers, 1 provincial key laboratories- Presided over 2 humanities and social sciences projects of the Ministry of Education and 2 key science and technology projects of the Ministry of Education; Presided over (cooperated with) 32 provincial science and technology department projects, 65 provincial philosophy and social science planning projects, 46 provincial education planning projects, and 186 provincial education department projects, with the longitudinal research funding reaching17.69 million yuan. Successfully declared 1 world intangible cultural heritage representative list, 2 national intangible cultural heritage representative lists and 20 Jilin intangible cultural heritage lists.
The school has a strong scientific research force. In recent five years, 256 1 academic papers have been published in journals above the provincial level, including 825 core journals and 272 papers retrieved by SCI, EI and ISTP. Won scientific research awards at or above bureau level 107. Published 22 academic works and 68 teaching materials. It has undertaken 540 scientific research projects above junior college level, including 2 1 national scientific research projects and 322 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects. He presided over 2 national teaching and research projects and 33 provincial teaching and research projects. Won 4 provincial excellent teaching achievement awards (including 1 first prize). In 2005 and 2006, the achievements in teaching and scientific research ranked 80 th and 765,438+0 respectively in China, and Jilin provincial universities ranked first. At present, the school has seven disciplines to jointly train postgraduate students with Northeast Normal University, Jilin Normal University and Beihua University.
Attach importance to and strengthen specialty construction. At present, the number of majors has increased to 42, two majors in history and physics have been approved as national-level professional construction sites, and four majors in mathematics and applied mathematics have been approved as provincial-level professional construction sites. It has 13 provincial-level excellent courses, 39 provincial-level excellent courses, 72 school-level excellent courses and 4 provincial-level excellent teaching teams, which has strengthened and developed the construction quality of existing majors and initially formed undergraduate majors.
In recent years, our school has attached great importance to international exchanges and cooperation. So far, our school has signed cooperation agreements with Portland State University, shoka University in Okayama and Mokpo University in Korea to carry out projects such as "3+ 1", "2+2" and "3+3+ 1". It has established sister institutions with Greenwood University in the UK, Kim Chu-chul Normal University in Pyongyang, North Korea, Chaoyang University of Technology in Taiwan Province Province, Asian University, University of South China and Chung Yuan Christian University. Students can study abroad, exchange short-term summer training, and practice at the Asian Language Center in Tokyo and the Chiyoda Language Institute in Yokohama. Foreign language education experts from Britain, America, Japan and South Korea are invited to teach in our school all the year round.
The whole school enrolls students from 26 provinces and cities in China, with full-time students 1 1 172. The school scientifically formulates the training mode of practical and applied talents, always grasps the lifeline of running a school, the teaching quality is widely recognized by the society, graduates are well received by all walks of life and employers, and the one-time employment rate of graduates has always remained above 90%. 20 12 practical application-oriented talent training mode innovation experimental zone was approved as the first batch of talent training mode innovation experimental zone in Jilin province. Students won four national second prizes in the "Higher Education Club Cup" national college students' mathematical modeling competition, and two bronze prizes and 1 excellent prize in the sixth "Challenge Cup" Jilin University Students' Entrepreneurship Plan Competition. In recent years, the school was rated as "Model School of International Language Standardization" by the State Language Committee, and was awarded the honorary title of "Jilin Province Model Collective" by Jilin Province. With the joint efforts of all teachers and students, the school's spiritual civilization construction has achieved fruitful results, and advanced figures and exemplary deeds have emerged constantly. In 20 12, our school was awarded the honorary title of "Civilized Unit of Jilin Province". The charity activity of "Baby Going Home to Find Subnet" founded by Professor Qin Yanyou and his wife has aroused great repercussions in the whole society and has been commended by the state, provinces and cities for many times. Professor Qin Yanyou and Professor Zhou Yao were named "Top Ten People Who Moved Jilin" in 2008 and 2009 respectively.
Schools should take root in the northeast, rely on Changbai Mountain, make great efforts to govern, and stride forward with the sonorous beat of the times.