Huazhong Normal University is located in Wuhan, Hubei Province, which is the thoroughfare of nine provinces. Located in Guizi Mountain, Nanhu Lake, Wuchang, adjacent to Wuhan New Technology Development Zone, covering an area of more than 2,000 mu. It is a key comprehensive normal university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national 2 1 1 engineering key university, and an important base for training teachers and other senior professionals in middle and higher schools.
This school has a long history. Established in 1903 (Wenhua College was founded in 187 1, 1924 was renamed as Huazhong University), and China University was established in 19 12, 1949. 195 1, public Huazhong university was established; 1952 transformed into Huazhong normal school; 1953 was named Huazhong normal university; 1985 was renamed Huazhong Normal University, and the name of the school was inscribed by Comrade Deng Xiaoping, one of the founders of Zhongyuan University. 1993 general secretary Jiang Zemin wrote an inscription for the 90th anniversary of the founding of the school: develop normal education and improve the quality of national culture. In the development of more than one hundred years, the school has not only inherited the essence of China's traditional culture, but also absorbed nutrients from foreign cultures, further carried forward the tradition of revolutionary cultural education, formed a loyal, enlightened, simple and resolute spirit of Chinese teachers, and trained more than 6,543.8+0.8 million outstanding talents for the country.
There are 2,654 schools in the school, including education college, psychology college, political college, literature college, history and culture college, economics college, foreign language college, mathematics and statistics college, physical science and technology college, chemistry college, life science college, urban and environmental science college, management college, continuing education college, higher vocational and technical college, online education college, music college, fine arts college, sports college and international cultural exchange college. Sociology, Information Technology, Information Management and Computer Science; More than 60 research institutes and research centers, including China Rural Issues Research Center, Language Research Institute and Hubei Education Digital Engineering Research Center. 53 undergraduate majors (directions) are enrolled nationwide. The school has Central South Teacher Training Center of the Ministry of Education and Central South Education Management Cadre Training Center of the Ministry of Education. At present, there are more than 20,000 full-time students, including more than 5,000 graduate students and more than 300 international students. The school has basically formed a complete higher education system from undergraduate to master, doctor and postdoctoral, and from full-time to adult education.
There are nearly 4,000 faculty members in the school, including more than 300 full-time teachers 1.300, including more than 290 professors, more than 500 associate professors, more than 500 doctoral supervisors 1, 2 senior professors in humanities and social sciences, 5 full-time and part-time academicians of Changjiang Scholar Award Scheme distinguished professor 1. It is one of the first units approved by the state with the right to confer doctoral and master's degrees, and has the right to independently review and confer the qualifications of professors, associate professors and doctoral supervisors. At present, there are 3 national key disciplines, 3 provincial and ministerial key disciplines 13, 2 national training and scientific research bases for basic disciplines of arts and sciences (physics and history), 3 national key research bases for humanities and social sciences (China Institute of Modern History, China Rural Research Center, Language and Literature Education Research Center), and 1 key laboratory of the Ministry of Education 1 3. There are five professional postdoctoral mobile stations in China, such as language, literature and physics. There are 7 first-level disciplines authorized by doctoral and master's degrees, 77 disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees and 158 disciplines authorized by master's degrees.
The school's scientific research work has a good momentum of development, and its scientific research strength has increased year by year. School teachers' humanities and social sciences research ranks 13, 10 and 15 in the first, second and third prizes of national universities respectively, and the total number of projects approved by the National Social Sciences Fund ranks 15 among national universities since the Tenth Five-Year Plan. /kloc-the source and inclusion rate of scientific research papers in 0/0 year ranked about 40 universities in China. In 2004, the total funding for scientific research in our school was 43.76 million yuan, an increase of 4.7 million yuan on the basis of 2003; A number of scientific research achievements won awards, including the first prize of natural science in Hubei Province and the Ministry of Education 1 item, and 29 outstanding achievement awards in the fourth social science in Hubei Province. The school was rated as an advanced unit for the contribution of university science and technology to Hubei economy by Hubei Provincial Party Committee and provincial government.
In terms of talent training, the school strives to embody the modern talent training thought of thick foundation, wide caliber, high quality and innovation, highlights the overall optimization of students' knowledge-ability-quality, and vigorously advocates innovative education and the cultivation of their practical ability. Teaching, the implementation of the credit system, the implementation of elective system, major and minor and dual-degree system; In terms of student management, our school has formed a set of effective practices, and established and improved a series of student management rules and regulations such as Sunday lateness system and civilized dormitory construction system. In recent years, our graduates have won the favor of employers with excellent ideological quality, good professional quality and comprehensive quality, and their employment has shown a good momentum. Graduates are in short supply, and the one-time employment rate is high, which is 99.38% in 2002, 95.88% in 2003, and 99. 1 1% in 2004 and 2005.
The campus cultural life of our school is rich and colorful, and students' club activities are very active. Guizishan Art Festival, Imagination Cup Science and Culture Festival, 129 Poetry Competition, forum for famous teachers, and works of famous teachers entering the campus have become traditional campus cultural activities in our school, which are quite influential in Wuhan and provide a broad stage for students to cultivate, exercise and display their talents. Our school has been rated as an advanced unit of summer social practice for college students in China for many times, and Shengbing Love Society has been rated as a national model to learn from Lei Feng. From June 5438 to 10, 2003, the school held a grand literary evening for the 0/00th anniversary of its founding. Chinese teachers at home and abroad gathered in Guizi Mountain, and their patriotic enthusiasm turned into wonderful programs, which spread all over China through many media.
The school attaches great importance to the improvement of students' learning and living conditions. At present, there are more than 10 modern teaching buildings and sports venues. There are two libraries, with a collection area of10.5 million square meters and a collection of more than 2.4 million books, with an advanced campus literature network management and service system. More than 6,500 computers are distributed in various hospitals, departments, research institutes and centers for students to learn; A campus computer network with international interconnection has been built. All student dormitories are managed in apartments, and each dormitory is equipped with coin-operated automatic washing machines. In addition to the necessary tables and chairs, beds, lamps and bookshelves, there are wardrobes and storage rooms, and telephones are installed in each room. The school has seven student canteens and a three-star hotel, which can meet the needs of students with different tastes, different ethnic habits and different spending power. The school hospital is a first-class hospital, which provides free medical services for full-time students. Supermarket, bath, barber shop and other life service facilities in the school are complete. The school has modern sports facilities such as multi-functional gymnasium, gymnastics room, swimming pool, football field, basketball court, volleyball court and tennis court, which can meet the physical exercise needs of students.
The school has established close cooperative relations with many key universities and scientific research institutions in China. With the United States, Germany, Japan, Russia, France, New Zealand, Australia, South Korea, Vietnam and other more than 60 universities in more than 20 countries, inter-school exchange relations have been established, and extensive academic exchanges and scientific research cooperation have been carried out. The school employs foreign experts and teachers to teach at school all the year round. In recent years, the school often sends personnel abroad for further study, most of whom have returned to China to become the backbone of the school's teaching and scientific research, and a group of teachers are active in international academic forums, making contributions to promoting scientific, technological, cultural and educational exchanges between China and foreign countries.
Huazhong Normal University is based in Hubei, facing Central South and radiating the whole country. All the teachers and students of Huazhong Normal University are working hard to build Huazhong Normal University into a comprehensive research university with distinctive teacher education characteristics with high morale.