The college is located in the hinterland of Qinba, on the bank of the Han River, and is known as the "Xi 'an Back Garden", a famous western city in Ankang City, Shaanxi Province. Ankang has convenient transportation, and Xiangyu, Xikang and Yang 'an railways meet here. National highways 3 16 and 2 10, which pass through Beijing-Kunming, Shi Tian and Baomao, are the second largest transportation hub in Shaanxi Province. The college faces the Hanjiang River in the north and the national Xiangxi Cave scenic spot in the south. The campus is lush with flowers and trees, lush green grass, beautiful scenery and elegant environment. It is an ideal garden for study and research.
The college now covers an area of 743.8 mu, the school building area is 24 1.847 square meters, and the assets of teaching and research instruments and equipment are 46,620,900 yuan. The school has complete teaching and experimental facilities and advanced equipment. At present, there are 908,300 books, 2008GB e-books and more than 0.500 periodicals/kloc-0. Tsinghua Tongfang Journals, Wanfang Database and Gigabit Campus Network, which are connected to the Internet, provide a good advanced means and development platform for teachers and students in the hospital to teach, research and obtain information.
The College adheres to the Scientific Outlook on Development and the development strategy of survival by quality, development by characteristics and support by contribution. Taking the cultivation of applied talents with comprehensive quality and innovative spirit as the main task, based on Qinba, we should adhere to the school-running direction of serving basic education, "agriculture, countryside and farmers" and regional economic and social development, and take the road of giving priority to connotation, paying attention to application and opening up school. Deepening the reform of education and teaching around the evaluation index of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. Taking discipline construction as the leading factor, focusing on the construction of teaching staff and improving the quality of education and teaching as the center, we should actively cultivate modern university culture and strive to build a comprehensive undergraduate college with characteristics, high quality and expertise in cultivating applied talents and applied research. Over the years, the enrollment rate of junior college students is among the best in the province. At present, there are 12 teaching departments, including mathematics department, electronic and information engineering department, chemistry and chemical engineering department, Chinese department, foreign languages department, political history department, education science department, art department, economic management department, physical education department, agricultural and life sciences college, continuing education college, and 54 undergraduate and specialist majors. Subjects cover literature, science, engineering, agriculture, law, history, management and education. It has formed a literary discipline with Hanshui culture as the main direction, a science discipline with Qinba resources protection and development as the main direction, and an agronomy discipline with sericulture as the main direction, and actively developed a multidisciplinary structure of management, engineering, education and other disciplines. At present, nearly 10,000 full-time students are enrolled in 23 provinces and cities across the country.
The college has a team of teachers with high academic level, good professional foundation, strong teaching and scientific research ability and reasonable age structure. At present, there are 526 full-time teachers, including 185 with associate senior titles or above, 26 doctors and masters, and 1 domestic famous writers. More than 60 teachers have won national, provincial and ministerial awards such as special allowance from the State Council, National Excellent Teacher Award, National Excellent Educator Award, Ceng Xianzi Award, Shaanxi Outstanding Contribution Expert, Shaanxi Excellent Teaching Achievement Award and Excellent Textbooks. The college has also hired more than 80 honorary professors, visiting professors and part-time professors, including academicians, well-known domestic experts, scholars and professors. Since upgrading to undergraduate course, the college has made great breakthroughs in the construction of excellent projects and teaching reform projects, winning 5 provincial teaching achievement awards and 7 provincial teaching reform projects under research, including 1 major project in Shaanxi Province. There are 2 provincial teaching teams, 5 provincial famous teachers, 4 provincial excellent courses, 2 provincial key majors, 2 provincial excellent pilot majors, 1 national major, 1 provincial major, 1 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 provincial talent training mode innovation experimental zone.
The college adheres to the guiding ideology of "teaching leads scientific research and scientific research promotes teaching" and strives to promote the progress of teaching and scientific research. Scientific research results are fruitful, and high-level scientific research results are constantly emerging. Since the promotion, the teachers in the whole hospital have undertaken more than 200 scientific research projects such as the National Social Science Fund Project, the "1315" major scientific research project of Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, the 11th Five-Year Plan of national education and scientific research, and the key and planned topics of the Ministry of Education in 2007. Obtained more than 600 international and domestic scientific research papers, works (textbooks) and other scientific research achievements/kloc-0. Focusing on teaching and scientific research, the College has obtained 1 subject, and established six provincial scientific research platforms, including Shaanxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Sericulture, Shaanxi Provincial Selenium-enriched Food Quality Supervision and Inspection Center, Shaanxi Ankang GAP Engineering Technology Research Center, Shaanxi Provincial Key Humanities and Social Science Base, Shaanxi Folk Culture Research Center, Shaanxi Selenium-enriched Food Engineering Laboratory and Shaanxi Sericulture Engineering Technology Research Center. Extensive cooperation with scientific research institutes such as Southwest University, Northwest A&F University, Shaanxi Normal University and xi Engineering University, highlighting the function of scientific and technological services. The advantages of the scientific research team are gradually highlighted, and the function of serving the economy and society is constantly enhanced.
The college always adheres to the principle of educating people, actively carries forward the school motto of "study hard, behave well and be determined to innovate", and actively guides and encourages college students to grow into talents with excellent school spirit and strong study style. With the goal of improving the comprehensive quality of college students, we will vigorously carry out colorful campus cultural activities, social practice activities and social service activities. In recent years, our students have participated in the National Mathematical Modeling Competition, the Advanced Mathematics Competition, the National "CCTV" Cup English Speech Competition for College Students, the National Basic Skills Competition for College Students' Language and Writing, the Chinese Teacher Competition and the "Challenge Cup" Extracurricular Academic Works Competition, and achieved fruitful results. In particular, our students won the first prize in the seventh "Challenge Cup" extracurricular academic research works competition for college students in Shaanxi Province, won the gold medal in the entrepreneurial design competition for college students in the whole province, and were recommended to declare national awards.
The college attaches great importance to students' employment and constantly strengthens the guidance and education for students' full employment. Established a solid employment practice base in the Pearl River Delta and Yangtze River Delta, and constantly opened up new horizons for students' employment. A group of students took root at the grassroots level and achieved remarkable results, which were reported by the media inside and outside the province. In recent years, the primary employment rate of students has always been in the forefront of similar universities in Shaanxi Province. College was awarded "2008 Advanced Collective for Employment of College Students in Western Shaanxi Province" by the Provincial Department of Education.
The College pays attention to strengthening foreign exchange and international cooperation, and has established long-term cooperative relations with four internationally renowned universities, including Australia and New Zealand, which provides a good platform for teachers and students to study abroad and further their studies. We have established long-term cooperative relations with the American English Society, the British Language Society and VSO, and many foreign cultural and educational experts have been teaching in the school all the year round.
In the new development stage, Ankang University will seize the great historical opportunity of the country to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education and the development of higher education, implement Scientific Outlook on Development, be determined to reform and forge ahead, and strive to build the college into a comprehensive undergraduate college with moderate scale, reasonable structure, scientific management, excellent quality, distinctive features and close integration with regional economy and society. Make Ankang College the cradle of talent training, the center of scientific research, the think tank of social development and the base of intellectual service in Qinba area, and make greater contributions to running a university that the people are satisfied with.
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