Hengyang Normal University is an ordinary full-time public undergraduate college directly under the Hunan Provincial Department of Education. The predecessor of the college can be traced back to 1904 Hunan Guanli South Road Normal School. Hengyang Normal University, founded in 1958, is one of the oldest normal universities in China. 1995 was renamed Hengyang Normal University. 1999 In March, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the former Hengyang Teachers College merged with the former Hengyang Education College and was upgraded to Hengyang Teachers College. In February, 200 1 year, the former Hunan Third Division merged. Adhering to the motto of "morality, learning, determination and practicality", the College has always adhered to the school-running philosophy of "quality, talents and characteristics", and is a "civilized university", "civilized health unit" and "garden-style unit" in Hunan Province.
The College is located in Hengyang City, the second largest city in Hunan Province, with Xiangjiang River in the east and Yan Hui Peak, the first peak of Nanyue Mountain in the north. The campus environment is beautiful and the transportation is convenient. The west campus covers an area of 48 1 mu. The East Campus covers an area of 1.685 mu and is a key construction project in Hunan Province. At present, it is being built according to the requirements of a modern and landscaped university campus. The building area of the college is more than 330,000 square meters, including 90,000 square meters for teaching, 40,000 square meters for laboratory and 6,543.8+0.5 million square meters for library. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is nearly 45 million yuan, the library has nearly 1 10,000 books, and the total value of fixed assets is more than 300 million yuan.
The campus network has been merged into China Education and Research Network and Internet. The scale of the college has been expanding. Full-time students in school1more than 2000 people. There are 3 secondary colleges, 16 departments (departments), 1 1 research institutes (centers). There are ideological and political education, history, law, economics, Chinese language and literature, editing and publishing, journalism, English, mathematics and applied mathematics, physics, electronic information science and technical chemistry, applied chemistry, chemical biology, fine arts, art design, musicology, physical education, computer science and technology, geography, tourism management, information management and information system, information and computing science, and music performance. There are 29 full-time undergraduate majors such as geographic information system, polymer materials and engineering, including normal 13 major and non-normal 16 major. The majors set up involve seven disciplines, such as literature, science, history, law, economics, teaching and management, forming a discipline structure with teacher education as the mainstay, equal emphasis on arts and sciences, mutual support of multiple disciplines and harmonious development, among which geography is a provincial key construction major.
The college has a team of teachers with reasonable structure and excellent quality. At present, there are 596 full-time teachers, including 38 professors and 95 associate professors 1006. Doctoral and master's degree winners 183 people; There are more than 60 experts who enjoy the special allowance of the State Council, outstanding young and middle-aged experts in Hunan Province, provincial and municipal academic leaders and provincial-level young backbone teachers. 12 people won the Ceng Xianzi Education Fund Award, Fok Ying Tung Education Fund Award and other awards. In addition, there are more than 60 foreign teachers and visiting professors.
The college insists on paying equal attention to teaching and scientific research. In the past three years, teachers have presided over and participated in the National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Foundation, National Tenth Five-Year Education Science Foundation and 166 provincial and ministerial projects. Published monographs, chief editors and teaching materials 100; More than 265,438+000 scientific research and teaching research papers have been published, of which more than 260 papers have been reprinted and included by international authoritative magazine retrieval systems such as SCI, EI, ISTP and domestic authoritative publications such as Xinhua Digest. Won more than 40 scientific and technological progress awards, social science achievement awards and teaching achievement awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level/kloc-0; The research base of human settlement environment is one of the first batch 17 key research bases of humanities and social sciences in Hunan province. Journal of Hengyang Normal University is a first-class periodical in Hunan Province and one of the top 100 social science periodicals in China.
The college always insists on putting moral education first, educating people as the center, taking quality as the lifeline, and highlighting the characteristics of normal education. In the history of running a school for a hundred years, it has trained more than 80,000 talents of all kinds and made outstanding contributions to the development of China's education. In recent years, students have participated in the national computer proficiency test, electronic design competition, mathematical modeling competition, English speech competition and other activities, and achieved excellent results. From 200 1 to 2004, the one-time pass rate of non-English majors increased year by year, which was 7.55%, 15.9%, 23% and 27. 1% higher than that of national key universities respectively. Students have published more than 2,000 works and papers and won more than 300 awards at or above the provincial level. The one-time employment rate of fresh graduates in our college is above 90%, and the quality of running a school is well received by the society.
At present, the college is determined to reform, keep pace with the times, blaze new trails, vigorously strengthen the school's capital construction, and strive to improve the level of teaching, scientific research and teaching staff. In order to build the college into a normal undergraduate college with a high status in the province and a certain influence in China, it ranks among the same level and type of universities in the country.