Second, a brief introduction of Jiangxi Normal University
Jiangxi Normal University is a university jointly established by the Ministry of Education and the Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, and it is a basic capacity building project for universities in the central and western regions. The school integrates philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art, and is located in Nanchang, the capital of Jiangxi Province, which has a profound historical and cultural heritage and is known as "the treasure of things and the outstanding people". It has a great influence on Jiangxi's political, economic, cultural and social development, and has been identified as a provincial key (normal) school with priority development by Jiangxi Provincial People's Government. There are two campuses, Yaohu and Qingshan Lake, covering an area of more than 3,500 mu, with a building area of 6,543,800+4,000 square meters, with a collection of more than 3,236,900 paper documents and 3,495,700 electronic books. Yaohu Campus is surrounded by a 7-kilometer-long Heyao River, with no fence and outstanding ecological and cultural characteristics.
The development of history
The school originated from Lushan Bailudong Academy, 1940 was founded as National Chung Cheng University, 1949 was renamed Nanchang University, 1953 was renamed Jiangxi Normal University, and 1983 was renamed Jiangxi Normal University. It is the oldest undergraduate institution of higher learning in Jiangxi Province. In 2003, Jiangxi Financial Workers College (Jiangxi Bank School) was incorporated.
School-running thought
The school moved seven times, changed its name six times and adjusted it four times. It has honed the school motto of "being steady and practical, being loyal to China", cultivated the excellent school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation", and formed the school-running thought of "people-oriented, society-oriented", "student-oriented, morality-oriented" and "perseverance"
discipline construction
The school is a doctoral degree awarding unit and the first batch of bachelor's and master's degree awarding units in China. It has ten disciplines such as philosophy, economics, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management and art, 23 professional colleges,/kloc-0 independent colleges (polytechnics) and 89 undergraduate majors. There are 9 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees (Marxist theory, China language and literature, chemistry, psychology, education, China history, mathematics, geography, management science and engineering), 5 post-doctoral mobile (work) stations, 3 1 first-class disciplines authorized by master's degrees, 17 master's degree awarding points and employees who apply for the right to award master's degrees with the same academic qualifications. Marxist theory, chemistry, psychology and China language and literature were selected as the first-class disciplines in Jiangxi Province, and chemistry ranked in the top 65,438+0% in ESI. In the fourth round of discipline evaluation, Marxist theory entered discipline A, while pedagogy, psychology, China language and literature, mathematics and chemistry entered discipline B.
personnel training
The school has 89 undergraduate majors, with nearly 30,000 full-time undergraduates, more than 5,000 doctoral and master students, and more than 0,000 adult higher education students. Approved two second prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award (Higher Education), two first prizes of the National Teaching Achievement Award (Basic Education) 1, two second prizes, two national professional comprehensive reform pilots, six national characteristic majors, two national off-campus practical education bases for college students, two national humanistic quality education bases 1 and two national experimental teaching demonstration centers. National virtual simulation experiment teaching project 1, 3 national excellent courses, 2 national excellent resources, national excellent video open course 1, 2 national teaching teams, Huang Danian-style teaching teams in national universities 1, and 10,000 new textbooks from the Ministry of Education. There are 7 provincial excellent talents training programs, 4 innovative experimental areas for talents training mode, provincial comprehensive professional reform pilot project 10, provincial first-class specialty (dominant specialty) 10, characteristic specialty 10, brand specialty 25, provincial excellent courses 26 and excellent resources and courses 25. There are 5 bilingual teaching demonstration courses, 7 provincial teaching teams, 1 national postgraduate education demonstration base, 4 provincial postgraduate education innovation bases, 7 provincial industrial enterprise joint training bases and 8 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers. Since 1999, the school has implemented the credit system reform, focusing on cultivating the sense of responsibility, innovative spirit and practical ability, and taking "credit system management, modular courses, menu-based training and open teaching" as the mechanism, making great efforts to cultivate compound innovative senior professionals with "thick professional foundation, wide discipline caliber, high moral quality and strong practical ability" to meet the needs, and won the evaluation of undergraduate teaching level by the Ministry of Education in 2005. In recent years, the school has established an educational concept with "learning" as the core, and strives to satisfy students' four rational choices of majors, knowledge and ability structure, teachers and their teaching methods, independent development and diversified growth around the goal of cultivating social backbone talents. Since 20 12, the innovative talents training plan of "Zheng Da students" has been launched. Since 20 13, free education for undergraduate normal students (1000 students) has been carried out, and the training mode of continuous reading for undergraduate and graduate students has been implemented. The initial employment rate of undergraduates ranks in the forefront of the province, and the one-time employment rate of graduate students is stable at over 90%. 20 1 1, the school employment work has successfully ranked among the top 50 typical universities in China for graduate employment; On 20 12, the school was approved as the first batch of pilot units of educational informatization in undergraduate colleges and universities in China; In the comprehensive evaluation of undergraduate majors in Jiangxi Province (20 15-20 18), 66 majors in our school ranked second in the province, among which 28 majors ranked first and 57 majors ranked top three. Among the majors with 5 or more schools participating in the evaluation, 20 majors in our school rank first, ranking first in the province in number; 45 majors ranked in the top three, with the highest proportion in the province. In 20 16, it was approved by the Ministry of Education as a national innovation and entrepreneurship base for practical education in colleges and universities, becoming the first local normal university in China and the only approved university in Jiangxi Province. 20 17 was selected as the first batch of demonstration universities in China to deepen the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education; 20 17 was selected as the national model school for the reform of college teachers' assessment and evaluation; In 20 18, it won the top 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship in China.