Two. Introduction to Taiyuan College Taiyuan College was formerly Taiyuan University founded by 1984, and was upgraded to a full-time comprehensive undergraduate college with the approval of the Ministry of Education on April 20 13. 2065438+In September 2004, the Foreign Language Teachers College of Taiyuan University and the Education College of Taiyuan University cancelled the merger. The college is led by Shanxi Provincial People's Government and managed by Taiyuan Municipal People's Government, and its teaching work is guided by Shanxi Provincial Department of Education.
The college is located in the center of Taiyuan Education Park, adjacent to Taiyuan Economic and Technological Development Zone, High-tech Development Zone, Jinzhong Industrial Zone, Wusu Comprehensive Bonded Zone and Shanxi Science and Technology Innovation City. It is the intersection and connection zone of "urbanization" between Taiyuan City and Jinzhong City, with outstanding geographical advantages.
The college has excellent infrastructure and excellent conditions for running schools. The planned land area of the new campus of the College is 1.828 mu, and the current total land area is 1.308 mu, which consists of the new campus, the old campus, the north campus and the middle campus. The building area of the school building is 340,600 ㎡, the total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 7 1, 35 1, 000 yuan, and the collection of books is 1.25 million.
There are 853 teachers in the college, including 3 experts enjoying special allowance from the State Council, 28 professors, 27 teachers with associate senior titles or above, 25 doctors and 632 masters. There are 20 departments, 2 teaching departments (Ideological and Political Department and College English Teaching Department) and 2 teaching centers (Computing Center and Public Experiment Center), among which 17 department undertakes undergraduate teaching. There are 66 majors, 28 undergraduate majors and 38 specialist majors (including 26 enrollment majors), covering engineering, science, literature, economics, management, art, agriculture and other disciplines. The college enrolls students from more than 20 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, with students 14795.
Adhering to the motto of "erudite, persistent and perfect", the College aims at cultivating applied and innovative talents to serve local economic and social development, and takes the opportunity of serving urban development, urban transformation and urban upgrading to actively deepen the construction of disciplines and specialties, continuously promote the reform of comprehensive education, adhere to the employment-oriented and service-oriented approach, and take the road of combining Industry-University-Research. Pioneering and innovative, forging ahead with determination, we have made remarkable achievements in party building, education and teaching, scientific research and development, personnel training and scientific management.
The college attaches great importance to strengthening foreign exchanges, and the forms of cooperative education are becoming more and more diverse. At present, cooperation agreements have been formally signed with Colorado State University, Fraser Valley University and Taiwan Province Yishou University, and extensive international cooperation has been carried out in student training, teacher exchange and academic research.
In the future, according to the standards of modern university construction, Taiyuan University will further strengthen the construction of teaching staff, disciplines and teaching infrastructure, strive to improve the quality of education, the level of scientific research and the efficiency of running schools, closely focus on the main line of accelerating the transformation of economic development mode with service, and strive to cultivate applied innovative talents with strong foundation, strong application, strong ability and high quality, so as to make greater contributions to the economic construction and social development of provinces and cities.