Yantai Teachers College, founded in 1958, is affiliated to Shandong Provincial People's Government and is the director of the Provincial Education Department. It is a master's and bachelor's degree awarding unit approved by the State Council Academic Degrees Committee. After 45 years of construction and development, it has become a comprehensive normal college with complete disciplines, abundant teachers, large scale, high teaching quality, frequent international exchanges and broad development prospects. The college covers an area of 95 hectares with a building area of 520,000 square meters. There are 16 colleges, departments, 4 teaching departments and 47 majors, including 39 undergraduate majors and 8 junior college majors. It covers 8 disciplines including literature, science, teaching, engineering, law, economics, management and agriculture 18 categories. The school has 14 master's programs. There are * * *17,000 graduate students and ordinary college students, and more than 4,000 adult students/kloc-0.
The school has a team of teachers with rich teaching experience, high academic level, reasonable professional title structure and full of vitality. Faculty 1580, including 900 full-time teachers, 20 professors/kloc-0, 360 associate professors and 360 doctoral and master teachers.
The school has complete and modern teaching and research conditions and facilities, 62 laboratories and experimental centers, and the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 84 million yuan. The newly-built computer center, network center, audio-visual center and multimedia (voice) experimental center are at the leading level among similar universities in China. There are more than 200 high-grade microcomputers 1 0, and new multimedia voice laboratories 10 can accommodate 1 0,220 students at the same time. The newly-built digital library covers an area of nearly 30,000 square meters, with a collection of 165438+ 10,000 volumes, 2053 Chinese and foreign periodicals and an advanced electronic reading room.
The school attaches great importance to education and teaching and maintains a high quality of education and teaching. According to the demand of economic construction and social development for talents in the new century, we strengthened quality education, trained a group of compound and extroverted talents, attached importance to teaching capital construction and curriculum construction, and strictly managed teaching, thus forming a good school spirit and style of study, and were rated as advanced units of teaching management in colleges and universities in Shandong Province. Among all previous students, the pass rate of non-TEM-4 has been in the forefront of colleges and universities in the whole province and even the whole country. The passing rate of TEM-8 for English majors is among the best in colleges and universities in the province. The admission rate of undergraduate graduates to master's degree remains above 20%, 1998, and the admission rate of recent undergraduate graduates to master's degree ranks 23rd among ordinary universities in China. In 2006, the admission rate of graduate students reached 39.9%, and it rose to 42.3% in 2002. In 2003, the online rate of undergraduate graduates reached a new high, reaching 47.24%, and the online rate of 16 dormitory graduates reached 100%, setting a new record for ordinary universities in China. The trained students are welcomed by employers because of their strong professionalism, high humanistic quality, good professional skills and quick adaptability. Most graduates become the backbone of their departments, industries or units.
The school has strong scientific research strength and high scientific research level. The school now has 18 provincial and ministerial key disciplines and key laboratories. In the past ten years, we have adhered to the principle of combining scientific research with teaching, and combining key construction with overall improvement. Scientific research serves basic education and economic construction, and * * * undertakes 680 scientific research projects, including international cooperation, national and provincial projects 190. * * * Published more than 520 monographs and teaching materials, published 4,500 papers, appraised more than 60 scientific and technological achievements, and won 76 national, provincial and ministerial awards. The number of international citations published by teachers in our school ranks 1, 6 1 in national universities and 25th in national normal universities. The number of papers included in SCI ranks10 106 among 8 universities in China, and 27th among normal universities in China. In the R&D achievements of China University, in recent five years, the college ranked 17 1 among ordinary universities in China, and ranked 24th among undergraduate normal universities. According to the same index, tobacco teachers rank 30th in comprehensive universities.
The school gives full play to the advantages of being located in an open coastal city, attaches great importance to international educational exchanges and cooperation, and implements an open school. In the past 10 years, we have hired more than 200 foreign teachers, received more than 400 foreign friends for inspection, sent more than 100 people abroad, and established friendly relations with many universities in Japan, South Korea, Denmark and other countries. This college is one of the first batch of 200 universities with the conditions to receive foreign students announced by the former State Education Commission. At present, there are 250 foreign students.
The school's cultural and sports activities are rich and colorful. Physical education teaching and training venues are complete, advanced equipment, physical education teaching and mass sports activities facilities are perfect, and the students' sports compliance rate is over 98%. Since 1992, it has been rated as the national advanced sports school for two consecutive years. Men's and women's basketball teams have participated in East China and national college basketball competitions on behalf of Shandong universities for many times, and achieved excellent results. Athletics, martial arts and other sports activities are also very active. The cultural and artistic life of the school is also rich and colorful, and students have won many awards in various competitions such as singing, performance, dance, painting and recitation among college students in the province and even the whole country.
The school's logistics service facilities are perfect and the service quality is high. In terms of students' life, there are many kinds of meals with low prices, and food management has always been an advanced unit of food work in colleges and universities in Shandong Province. Student accommodation is all managed in apartments, apartment conditions are constantly improving, all rooms are equipped with program-controlled telephones, and all newly-built apartment rooms are equipped with bathrooms.
The goal of the Tenth Five-Year Plan is: after five years of construction and development, gradually build a comprehensive university that meets the needs of the market economic system and modernization, and strive to achieve a reasonable professional structure, obvious school-running characteristics, strong school-running strength, high teaching quality and good school-running benefits, and become an important talent training base in Shandong Province.