Two. Huainan Union University was established in September, 1984. It is an ordinary university approved by the provincial government and put on record by the Ministry of Education. The school is located in Huainan City, Anhui Province, a big city in China, with lush Shungeng Mountain in the south and winding Huaihe River in the north. It is close to the traffic arteries in the city center, with beautiful environment and convenient transportation. Over the past 35 years, the scale of running a school has been continuously expanded, the quality of teaching has been steadily improved, the characteristics of running a school have been highlighted year by year, and the social reputation has been increasing day by day.
Take root, prosper and forge ahead-actively build higher vocational colleges with local characteristics
The school adheres to the school-running philosophy of "governing the school according to law, respecting teachers, pursuing excellent learning and scientific development", takes the development strategy of "establishing the school with quality, developing the school with characteristics and strengthening the school with talents", highlights the service purpose, takes employment as the guidance, strengthens the combination of school and society, teaching and production, teaching and scientific research, cultivates senior practical talents needed by the front line of modernization, and strives to build local higher vocational colleges with practical talents training and open school-running pattern.
After 35 years of development, the school covers an area of more than 800 mu, and there are more than 400 in-service teachers, including 1 15 teachers with senior titles and 258 teachers with master's degree or above. The proportion of "double-qualified" teachers in the total number of teachers ranks in the forefront of similar colleges in the province. The school now has eight departments of mechanical and electrical engineering, chemical engineering, construction engineering, economics, politics, law and literature, foreign languages, computer science and medicine, and teaching units such as adult education college, basic courses department, ideological and political department and training center of RTVU, which undertake the teaching task of cultivating students in ordinary colleges and universities. At present, there are 49 permanent enrollment majors in "open education" colleges and universities, including undergraduate majors 10, with nearly 10,000 students of all kinds. The school now has advanced laboratories such as engineering training center, computer teaching center, network technology, multimedia, mechatronics, instruments and meters, chemistry and chemical engineering, accounting, phonetics, clinical medicine, anatomy, pathology, tissue specimen room, etc., with complete design functions and first-class facilities, which can meet the needs of students' experimental training.
In recent years, the employment signing rate of graduates reached 95% in that year, and they were awarded the honorary title of "Advanced Collective for Employment of Graduates from Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Anhui Province" in succession, and the quality and level of employment were among the best among similar colleges and universities in Anhui Province.
Accurately Positioning and Concise Features —— Constantly Strengthening Teaching and Quality Engineering Construction
The school aims to improve its ability to serve Huainan's transformation and development strategy, to run a first-class vocational college with distinctive characteristics, to help Huainan's emerging industries develop and transform small and medium-sized enterprises, to further enhance the effectiveness of school-enterprise cooperation, to vigorously promote the professional construction led by school-enterprise cooperation, to strengthen the construction of double-qualified teachers and the improvement of scientific research service capabilities, and to promote the construction of a mutually beneficial and win-win practical education base for school-enterprise cooperation. Deepen the reform of personnel training mode and professional teaching, effectively improve the quality of personnel training in higher vocational education, comprehensively enhance the ability of schools to serve Huainan local industries and the economic and social development of our province, and significantly enhance the strength and vitality of running schools.
Optimizing Reform and Innovation in an All-round Way —— Vigorously Promoting Quality Education for College Students
Focusing on the two fundamental problems of "who to train" and "how to train people" in higher vocational education, our school has carried out overall optimization, reform and innovation from the aspects of talent training objectives, training mode, curriculum setting and practical teaching.
According to the idea of "school-enterprise cooperation, work-study integration and teaching integration", our school takes the employment level of students and enterprise satisfaction as the core indicators to measure the quality of personnel training, and expands the depth and breadth of enterprise participation in personnel training, including the participation of enterprise personnel, the introduction of enterprise standards and the integration of vocational qualification requirements. And internalize the professional skills needs of post groups into specific teaching objectives, integrate them into the teaching content and implement them in the teaching process.
A talent training scheme of "basic platform+professional direction module" is constructed, which pays attention to the cultivation of students' sustainable learning ability. According to the characteristics of different majors and the existing teaching conditions of the school, the talent training modes of "work-study alternation" and "2+ 1" are mainly adopted, which realizes the close connection between teaching practice and professional posts and effectively improves students' professional skills.
Our school attaches great importance to the construction of colorful campus culture. The whole school 19 student associations give full play to the enthusiasm of the majority of students' campus cultural subjects by organizing various cultural and sports activities, and form a "second classroom" content with a series of club activities such as campus culture and art festival, science and technology activity week and various competitions as carriers, creating a good campus cultural atmosphere and comprehensively improving students' comprehensive quality.
Cherish honor and consolidate achievements-constantly expand the social reputation of the school
Since its establishment 35 years ago, the school has successively won 3 1 provincial and municipal honorary titles such as "Anhui Civilized Unit", "Advanced Collective for Employment of College Graduates in Anhui Province", "Excellent Unit for Student Management in Anhui Province", "Organization Award for College Students' Career Planning and Design Competition and College Students' Entrepreneurship Competition" and "Model of Civilized Unit in Huainan City".
Make persistent efforts to write a new chapter. Huainan United University, under the leadership of the Provincial Department of Education and the Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government, is seizing the opportunity with a sense of urgency and fighting spirit, striving to rise, comprehensively promoting school construction and constantly writing a new chapter in its development.