Introduction to Kashgar University Kashgar University is located in Kashgar, a famous historical and cultural city in China and an excellent tourist city in China, which is known as "five people connecting eight countries and connecting Europe and Asia all the way". It is a multi-disciplinary undergraduate school located in the westernmost part of the motherland, with the mission of cultivating basic education teachers and applied talents needed for economic and social development.
The school was founded in 1962, formerly known as Kashgar Teachers College. From its founding to the end of 1978 16, it is the only normal college among the five institutions of higher learning in the autonomous region (Xinjiang University, Xinjiang Institute of Technology, Bayi Agricultural Reclamation College, Xinjiang Medical College and Xinjiang Kashgar Teachers College). Judging from the basic education, social stability and economic development in Xinjiang, especially in southern Xinjiang, 1978 school was upgraded to an undergraduate college and renamed Kashgar Teachers College. In 2003, he obtained the qualification of the authorized unit of master's degree and began to undertake the task of cultivating master's students. In 2007, he achieved excellent results in the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. 20 12 is listed as the basic capacity building project of universities in the central and western regions. On April 20 15, it was renamed Kashgar University. On June 20 16, it was identified as one of the national 100 pilot universities for transformation and development. 1994 and 2009, the school was awarded the honorary title of "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress" by the State Council twice; 20 14 The Chinese Department of our school was awarded the honorary title of "National Model Collective of National Unity and Progress" by the State Council.
The school has 15 teaching units and 53 undergraduate majors (including 3 major directions): among them, there are 23 normal majors and 30 non-normal majors, covering 9 disciplines: science, engineering, literature, teaching, art, law, economics, management and history. There are 3 master's authorization points in the first-level discipline, 2 master's authorization points in two disciplines and 3 master's authorization points. National undergraduate major comprehensive reform pilot 1, national college students' off-campus practice education base 1, 3 key disciplines at autonomous region level, key industries at autonomous region level with shortage of talents 1, innovation and entrepreneurship demonstration majors at autonomous region level 1, strategic emerging majors at autonomous region level 1, and humanities and social sciences at autonomous region level of ordinary universities. There are 2 key laboratories at the autonomous region level, 3 experimental teaching demonstration centers, autonomous region-level engineering technology research centers 1, and autonomous region-level scientific and technological innovation teams 1.
The school has a staff of 1098, including 660 full-time teachers. There are 500 full-time teachers with master's degree or above, accounting for 75.76% of full-time teachers, including doctor 148; There are 228 teachers with the title of deputy high school or above, accounting for 34.55% of full-time teachers.
The school has 14832 students. It has two campuses, Gaotai and Xinquan, covering an area of 1 660,700 square meters, with advanced teaching facilities and comfortable teaching environment. The library has a collection of 1, 3 1.55 million volumes, about 600,000 electronic books, and various literature databases 12. All books, newspapers and electronic reading rooms adopt a fully open electronic reading service system. Campus network and 4G communication network cover the whole school and can meet the needs of talent training in the information age. The total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 65.438+0.46 billion yuan. It has perfect teaching and experimental equipment and facilities for culture, sports and health, which fully meets the needs of education and teaching, and fully guarantees and serves the teaching, scientific research and personnel training of the school.
Since its establishment, under the attention and care of the CPC Central Committee, the State Council and the Ministry of Education, under the correct leadership of the Party Committee, the People's Government, the Education Working Committee and the Education Department of the autonomous region, and with the care and strong support of the provinces and cities in Xinjiang, the school has adhered to the university spirit of "Populus euphratica is as tough as a red candle", condensed the school motto of "harmony, tolerance, inspirational and strong" and formed a "stability as the premise and teaching as the strong goal" "Taking improving the quality of teaching as the lifeline, focusing on the construction of teaching staff and aiming at cultivating qualified talents" has not only made great contributions to basic education in Xinjiang, but also accumulated rich experience in running higher education, formed its own unique characteristics, forged a profound university spirit and university culture, persisted in serving the basic education and economic and social development in Xinjiang, especially in southern Xinjiang, and trained more than 80,000 basic education teachers and various specialized talents with good ideological and moral cultivation and solid professional skills.