Relying on its rich resources, Qufu Normal University established Adult Education 1958, which is one of the ordinary institutions of higher learning that held adult education earlier after the founding of New China. In the course of nearly half a century, the adult education of Qufu Normal University has been developing vigorously, and the number of college students ranks among the best in the country. The form of running a school has developed from a single correspondence education to the current mode of taking correspondence education as the main and various forms of running a school simultaneously; The specialty setting has developed from the initial three majors to more than 50 majors that meet the needs of the times and social development; The educational level has developed to the multi-level development of junior college, undergraduate and master's education. Over the past 45 years, * * * has trained more than 60,000 qualified undergraduate and junior college correspondence graduates, trained 65,438+200,000 "three links" primary and secondary school teachers, and trained more than 30,000 middle school teachers as examiners for the self-taught examination of middle school teachers in Shandong Province, making indelible contributions to the basic education and social development in Shandong Province. After 45 years, several generations of adult educators in Qufu Normal University have made brilliant achievements in adult education. 1995- 1997, the comprehensive score of correspondence education in Qufu Normal University ranked first in the province and was awarded the title of "National Excellent School for Adult Higher Education Evaluation" by the former State Education Commission. It has successively won the titles of "Advanced Collective of Adult Higher Education in Shandong Province", "Advanced Unit of Three Exchange Training for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Shandong Province", "Advanced Unit of Continuing Education for Primary and Secondary School Teachers in Shandong Province", "Advanced Unit of Vocational Education and Adult Education Research in Shandong Province" and "Advanced Unit of Self-taught Examination in Shandong Province". The teaching research of adult education has achieved fruitful results. Up to now, he has won 2 national teaching achievement awards, 5 provincial and ministerial awards, presided over the national key project of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Philosophy and Social Sciences 1, the Ninth Five-Year Plan for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education 1, 2 special youth projects of the Tenth Five-Year Plan for National Education Science, and 3 provincial key projects such as the Tenth Five-Year Plan for Shandong Education Science. During the period of 1998, the school was awarded a master's degree in adult education. As the second master's degree program in adult education in China, it has become one of the important bases for cultivating high-level talents in adult education teaching, management and research.