The school is located in the scenic Yiyang City, covering an area of about 2,700 mu, which is an important part of the province's educational development. The following is an introduction to Yiyang Education College from the aspects of school history, disciplines, teachers, teaching facilities and campus culture.
1. School history: Yiyang Education College was founded in 1978, formerly known as Yiyang Preschool Teachers College, renamed Yiyang Teachers College in 1985, and upgraded to 1998, renamed Yiyang Education College.
2. Discipline: The school has 9 second-level colleges, 44 undergraduate majors and 3 first-level disciplines authorized by master's degrees. Subjects and majors cover five fields, such as education, literature, history and science and engineering, among which pedagogy, Chinese language and literature and chemistry are the characteristic majors of the school.
3. Teaching staff: there are 1626 faculty members, including 1066 full-time teachers, and the proportion of teachers with doctor's degree, master's degree or above exceeds 80%. The school has also hired many academicians, master professors and high-level talents as honorary professors, part-time professors and visiting professors.
4. Teaching facilities: The school has 32 teaching buildings, including 6 experimental buildings, with a total teaching area of about 840,000 square meters. The ground and underground area of the school library is nearly 30,000 square meters, with a collection of 6.5438+0.5 million books.
5. Campus culture: The school pays attention to cultivating students' comprehensive quality, and constantly strengthens the construction of school characteristic culture in traditional culture education, art education and physical exercise. The school also actively carries out a variety of campus cultural activities such as volunteer service, literary competitions, science and technology competitions, innovation and entrepreneurship, and creates a strong campus atmosphere.
Generally speaking, Yiyang Education College is an undergraduate college with high popularity and strength. In recent years, the school has continuously strengthened the reform of education and teaching, trained a large number of outstanding talents with all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and beauty, and made contributions to local economic construction and social development. In the future, the school will continue to adhere to the "people-oriented, moral education first" school philosophy, continue to optimize the quality of education and teaching, and provide high-level education and teaching resources and growth platforms for more aspiring young people.