Anhui Normal University is the earliest institution of higher learning in Anhui. The school is located in Wuhu, a state-level open city with the reputation of "Huizhou charm and city of thousands of lakes". It is close to the vast Yangtze River, next to Lingxiu Zheshan Mountain. It is a provincial key university that combines the natural beauty of Jiangnan and the humanistic spirit of Anhui.
On the basis of Jingfu Academy in Qing Dynasty at the end of 19 and Anhui University Hall established at the beginning of the 20th century, Anhui University, the predecessor of the school, was founded in Anqing City, Anhui Province on 1928. 1946, the provincial Anhui University was renamed as the National Anhui University, which was once known as "in the Beijing-Shanghai region, second only to Shanghai Tongji University". From 65438 to 0949, National Anhui University moved to Wuhu and merged with Anhui University at that time to form the new Anhui University. From 1950 to 1952, some departments of the school were merged into Nanjing University, Fudan University, Zhejiang University and East China University of Political Science and Law, and Anhui Normal University was merged into our school on 1952. 1954 Anhui university teachers college and agricultural college were established respectively, and the headquarters was renamed Anhui teachers college. 1958, Anhui Provincial Party Committee decided to move some liberal arts departments (disciplines) of Anhui Normal University to Hefei to establish Hefei Normal University. At the same time, some teachers and students of physics department moved to the newly-built Hefei College (later renamed Anhui University). 1960, Anhui Normal University was renamed as Southern Anhui University, and Comrade Liu Shaoqi wrote the name of the school. 1968, Weinan College was renamed Anhui University of Workers and Peasants. 1970 Hefei Normal University was cancelled, and most departments (departments) moved back to Anhui University of Workers and Peasants. 1972, approved by the State Council, the school was officially named Anhui Normal University, and Comrade Guo Moruo wrote the name of the school. In 2005, Wuhu Normal University was merged into Anhui Normal University.
In the course of running a school for nearly 80 years, a large number of well-known experts, scholars and social elites, such as Zhou, Yu Dafu, Su, Chen Wangdao, Zhu Xiang and Zhu Guangqian, have gathered on the banks of Linghu Lake and Jinghu Lake to write books and advocate education. After generations of teachers' hard work, inspirational practice, post-learning cultivation, successive promotion, and example, they have honed the spirit of "simplicity, perfection, pursuit of Excellence and unremitting self-improvement", accumulated the teaching style of "rigorous scholarship, dedication, teaching and educating people, being a model for others", and cultivated "diligence, prudence, simplicity, modesty, unity of knowledge and practice, truth-seeking and innovation"
The school has 15 colleges, including College of Arts, College of Politics and Law, College of Economics and Management, College of Music, College of Fine Arts, College of Social Sciences, College of Education Science, College of Foreign Languages, College of Physical Education, College of Mathematics and Computer, College of Physics and Electronic Information, College of Chemistry and Materials, College of Land Resources and Tourism, College of Life Sciences, College of Environmental Sciences, and Wanjiang College, College of Continuing Education and College of International Education. The school has formed a complete talent training system at different levels, such as doctor-master-bachelor education, full-time higher education, adult higher education and international student education. It has developed into a collection of literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, science, engineering, education and other disciplines, paying equal attention to teachers and non-teachers, and has great influence in Anhui and even the whole country. It has been determined by the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government as.
The school has 7 doctoral programs, 2 postdoctoral mobile stations, 8 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degrees, 88 master's programs and 60 undergraduate majors. Full-time teachers 138 1 person, including 202 senior teachers and 420 deputy senior teachers. National famous teachers 1 person, national teaching team 1 person, 6 provincial famous teachers and 2 provincial innovation teams. There are 34 175 students of all kinds, including doctoral students 108, master students 4009, ordinary undergraduates 2 1935, international students 180 and adult college students 7943.
The campus covers an area of/kloc-0.9525 million square meters, with a building area of 872,700 square meters, and the total value of instruments and equipment is/kloc-0.90 billion yuan. The library is rich in books, with a total collection of 2.905 million volumes and more than 600 rare books of ancient books. Among them, Hongwu Zheng Yun is the only complete works in China, Tongzhi and the Complete Works of Li Taibai and Du Gongbu collected in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty are both rare books at home and abroad, and the collection resources have basically been digitized.
The school has always attached importance to teaching, always insisting that talent training is the fundamental task of colleges and universities, and quality is the lifeline of the school. Pay attention to the coordinated development of students' knowledge, ability and quality in teaching, advocate the cultivation of practical ability and innovative spirit, and steadily improve the quality of personnel training. Since its establishment, it has trained more than 6.5438+0.7 million full-time professionals for the country. Graduates are distributed all over Anhui and in education, economy, culture, science and technology, management and other fields, and a large number of graduates have become the backbone of their industries.
The school has 1 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education and 3 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of universities in Anhui Province. 1 province * * * key laboratories of the Ministry of Education, 5 provincial key laboratories (centers) and 17 provincial key disciplines have been built. There are 6 national specialty construction sites, 2 provincial specialty construction sites, and 4 provincial education reform demonstration majors. 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center and 5 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers; There are 3 national excellent courses and 28 provincial excellent courses. The school has also edited and published various academic journals and newspapers such as Journal of Anhui Normal University, Journal of College Counselors, Learning Chinese, Chemistry for Middle School Students, and Anhui Normal University Newspaper.
The school is one of the first universities in China to be allowed to recruit foreign students at public expense, and it is also the national Chinese education base and the Anhui Chinese international promotion center. The school has received more than 3,000 long-term and short-term international students from more than 30 countries and regions, and established long-term friendly cooperation and academic exchange relations with dozens of institutions of higher learning, scientific research institutions, academic groups and educational institutions in the United States, Britain, Germany, Finland, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and other countries and regions.
The school is also the training and research base for college counselors of the Ministry of Education, the national training base for key teachers in primary and secondary schools of the Ministry of Education, the sports culture research base of the Development Research Center of the State Sports General Administration, the training center for college teachers in Anhui Province, the training base for professional and technical personnel in Anhui Province, the training base for educational management cadres in Anhui Province, and the training base for key teachers in high schools in Anhui Province.
Chunhua Qiushi, peach and plum fragrance. In order to meet the opportunities and challenges brought by the vigorous development of higher education, the school has defined new development goals in the Eleventh Five-Year Development Plan, and strived to build Anhui Normal University into a comprehensive teaching and research university with teacher education as its main feature, and actively made greater contributions to the implementation of the strategies of "rejuvenating the country through science and education" and "rejuvenating Anhui through science and education" and the construction of an innovative country. (The above data are as of the end of 2008 10)