Guangzhou Normal University was founded in1958; South China Institute of Architecture (West Campus) was founded in1984; Guangzhou Institute of Education was founded in1953; Guangzhou Normal University was founded in1985; Guangzhou University was founded in 1983.
The school has two campuses, University Town and Guihuagang, covering an area of 2 127.28 mu and a building area of 8627 18. 14 square meters. The total investment in the construction of the new campus of the University Town is 2.06 billion yuan, and there are teaching buildings, experimental buildings, performing arts centers, gymnasiums, libraries, network centers and student apartments with complete functions and advanced facilities.
The school library has 22 1000 volumes, 500,000 kinds of electronic books and 3,655 kinds of Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals. The school has established a relatively complete campus network system, with network information point 4 138 1, covering the teaching area, office area and living area in an all-round way, and the construction of digital campus has begun to take shape. The school has 4/kloc-0 laboratories, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment reaches 250 million yuan.
The school has 22 colleges, 62 undergraduate majors, 42 master's programs and 2 doctoral programs, and has two professional degree programs: master of education and master of engineering. It covers nine disciplines: philosophy, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, economics and management. At present, there are 588 full-time undergraduates 19280 and graduate students. The school has 1 1 provincial key disciplines; Key laboratories of the Ministry of Education 1 each, 4 provincial and municipal key laboratories, 3 provincial and municipal humanities and social science research bases and 3 provincial and municipal experimental teaching demonstration centers; 1 1 famous brands in provinces and cities; Provincial and municipal quality courses11; The school has been approved as the national demonstration site of college English teaching reform and the national college students' cultural quality education base (joint).
There are 2,398 faculty members in the school, including full-time teachers 1.335, professors 1.77 and associate professors 556, with senior titles accounting for 54.95438+0% of the total number of full-time teachers. There are 206 doctors and 59 masters, and 7 1.3% of the full-time teachers are under 40. The average age of full-time teachers is 40.34 years old. At present, there are 2 academicians of the two academies, 3 young and middle-aged experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country, 2 winners of the National Outstanding Youth Fund, 1-and 2-class candidates of the National "Hundred Million Talents Project" 1 person, 3 members of the National Teaching Steering Committee of Colleges and Universities1person, 30 experts who enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council, 24 doctoral supervisors and 294 master supervisors. 15 provincial and municipal excellent experts, 1 person provincial "Thousand Hundred Projects" national candidates,1person provincial and ministerial candidates, 95 university-level candidates, 43 provincial and municipal "excellent propaganda and ideological front talents" and 6 1 person outstanding overseas students.
Since 2003, the school has obtained 1722 scientific research projects at all levels, and the research funds in place have reached more than 200 million yuan. Received 78 scientific research awards at or above the provincial and municipal levels, including the second prize of National Science and Technology Progress Award 1 item. He published 5784 academic papers, 437 of which were included by SCI, EI and ISTP, and published academic works 192. The school has obtained 54 patents, including invention patents 19.
For a long time, the school has established cooperative relations with more than 50 universities and scientific research institutions in 17 countries and regions. For example, in 2002, with the active support of the Ministry of Education of China and France and the Guangzhou Municipal Government, our school established the first Sino-French Tourism College, which created a new mode of personnel training for Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools. At home and abroad, the school has also set up Sino-Australian international accounting master program, electromechanical maintenance engineering and management undergraduate program, Putonghua teacher training and other cooperative projects. In the past three years, nearly 100 foreign experts have been hired or invited to give lectures in our school, and more than 0/000 foreign experts and scholars have been received. 246 teachers or administrative cadres were sent abroad for further study, and nearly 300 people went abroad for academic exchanges and inspection, and more than 20 international cooperation projects were implemented.
Since 2004, the one-time pass rate of CET-4 in our school has exceeded the average pass rate of colleges and universities in China by about 20 percentage points. From 2003 to 2005, school students won 566 prizes in academic competitions at or above the provincial level. In the 8th and 9th National Challenge Cup Competition for Extracurricular Scientific and Technological Works of College Students, * * * won 2 first prizes, 4 second prizes and 4 third prizes, among which in the 9th National Challenge Cup Competition, our school ranked first in Guangdong, and 12 was a national university. Students won 123 awards in sports competitions at or above the provincial level, among which the shuttlecock team participated in world championships on behalf of the country for many times, and won 1 world champion and 4 world runners-up. Ming Sheng Student Art Troupe of Guangzhou University won the first prize in the national college students' art song singing competition. Yang Jing and Yang Li, students of Music and Dance Academy, won the Latin dance championship in the 53rd International Youth Dance Championship. Chen Zhuo, a 2003 student of the School of Civil Engineering, won three patents; Feng Guiming, a student majoring in chemistry education 200/KLOC-0, won the second China Youth Science and Technology Innovation Award; Pan Shuhua, who was recognized as a physical disability in 2003, won the first and second prizes in the provincial mathematical model competition 1, the second prize in the national mathematical model competition 1, the national college student of the year 100 in 2006, and the typical advanced youth in Guangzhou107. , fully demonstrated the comprehensive quality of our students.
Based on the objective needs of comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable development of regional economy and society, our school put forward in its development strategic planning "based on Guangzhou, facing Guangdong, radiating at home and abroad, serving the society;" Give priority to undergraduate education and actively develop postgraduate education and international education; Construct a discipline and specialty structure system with the combination of science and engineering, the infiltration of arts and sciences and the coordinated development; Cultivate high-quality applied talents with broad knowledge, solid foundation, innovative consciousness and strong adaptability; Through unremitting efforts, we will gradually build our school into a teaching and research-oriented comprehensive university that adapts to Guangzhou's economic and social development, ranks among the advanced universities of the same kind in China, and several disciplines have certain influence at home and abroad.
(Updated on May 1 2007)