Second, a brief introduction of Shaanxi Normal University
Shaanxi Normal University is a world-class discipline construction university directly under the Ministry of Education, a national "2 1 1 engineering" key construction university, and a national teacher education "985 engineering advantage discipline innovation platform". It is an important base for the country to train teachers, educational management cadres and other senior professionals in colleges and secondary schools, and is known as the "cradle of teachers".
The school's predecessor was Shaanxi Teachers College, which was established in 1944. 1954 changed its name to Xi' an Normal University, 1960 merged with Shaanxi Normal University and was named Shaanxi Normal University. 1978 directly under the Ministry of Education. Since its founding more than 70 years ago, the school has been adhering to the fine tradition of "respecting morality and learning, inspiring and striving for self-improvement", based on the western region and facing the whole country, and has developed into a comprehensive first-class normal university with important influence, which has trained more than 300,000 graduates of various types for the country and formed a school spirit of "firm adherence to morality, self-improvement in books" and "integrity, liberal arts and integration of knowledge and practice".
The school is located in Xi 'an, one of the four famous historical and cultural cities in the world. Covering an area of 2,800 mu, there are two campuses, Chang 'an and Yanta. Construction of Chang 'an Campus began in 2000, and now it has become the main campus of the school, which mainly undertakes the education and training tasks of the third and fourth grades of undergraduate and graduate students. Yanta Campus has a history of more than 60 years. At present, it mainly undertakes the teaching of basic courses and general courses for freshmen and sophomores, as well as the tasks of teacher education, continuing education, distance education, teacher cadre training, and international student education. Yanta Campus is simple and elegant, Zhong Ling is graceful and graceful, and Chang 'an Campus is modern and open, with great momentum. The school was awarded the title of "Civilized Campus" by the Ministry of Education and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government.
The school has a graduate school, 2 1 college, 1 basic experimental teaching center and ethnic education college (preparatory education), 65 undergraduate majors, 18 first-class disciplines authorized by doctoral degrees, 4 1 first-class disciplines authorized by master degrees, 1 doctoral degree authorization points (. There are 4 national key disciplines, 4 doctoral dissertations were selected into 100 national excellent doctoral dissertations, 7 doctoral dissertations were selected into national excellent doctoral dissertations, 68 doctoral dissertations won the title of excellent doctoral dissertations in Shaanxi province, and 16 master dissertations won the national excellent master dissertations in education. There are 2 national bases for talent training and scientific research in basic disciplines, 3 bases for introducing discipline talents in institutions of higher learning of the Ministry of Education, 4 national engineering laboratories 1, 4 national experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 national virtual simulation experimental teaching centers, 4 research bases for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education 1, 4 national and regional research centers of the Ministry of Education, and 1, the key research base of sports sociology of the State Sports General Administration. There are 1 national demonstration bases for the joint training of master of education graduates, 4 key laboratories and engineering research centers of the Ministry of Education, 17 key laboratories and engineering research centers of Shaanxi Province, 5 key research bases of humanities and social sciences of Shaanxi Province, 1 key research bases of philosophy and social sciences of Shaanxi Province and 1 key public opinion information research center of Shaanxi Province. The school has distance education colleges, teachers and cadres education colleges and other institutions. In addition, there are dozens of academic groups and institutions, such as Northwest Teacher Training Center of the Ministry of Education, Northwest Education Management Cadre Training Center of the Ministry of Education, Basic Education Curriculum Research Center of the Ministry of Education, Shaanxi Basic Education Resource Research and Development Center, Shaanxi Teacher Education Guidance Center, Shaanxi Cadre Education and Training Base, and the Chinese Tang History Society and China Ancient Capital Society.
There are 1752 teachers in the school, 9 1% teachers have doctor's degrees or master's degrees, and 7 1% teachers have doctor's degrees. There are 475 professors and 696 associate professors in the teaching staff. There are 5 academicians, 4 young and middle-aged experts who have made outstanding contributions to the country, 3 leading talents in philosophy and social sciences, leading talents in scientific and technological innovation 1 person, * Award Scheme 13 person, 6 people selected for the National Hundred Million Talents Project, 3 winners of the National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars, 2 national famous teachers and 2 national top-notch young talents. Seven people were selected from the "four groups" of the national and provincial propaganda and cultural system, 40 people from the "New Century Excellent Talents Support Program", 44 people from Shaanxi Province 1 person, including outstanding contribution experts, talents from the "Three Five-Year Plan" in Shaanxi Province, top talents in key fields in Shaanxi Province, leading talents in scientific and technological innovation in Shaanxi Province, provincial famous teachers, and new scientific and technological stars in Shaanxi Province.
Full-time undergraduate students 17502, graduate students 17343 (including full-time 834 1 person and part-time 9002), 66034 continuing education and online education students, and more than 65438 foreign students/kloc-0. For a long time, the school has taken quality as its lifeline, paid close attention to teaching management and reform, and achieved remarkable results. In recent years, * * * has won 8 national teaching achievement awards and 0/00 provincial teaching achievement awards; 1 1 was rated as a national specialty, and 22 majors were rated as provincial specialty; 1 1 The major was established as a provincial comprehensive reform pilot major; 18 is recognized as a provincial first-class professional construction project (9 construction majors and 9 cultivation majors); Two national-level experimental zones and 18 provincial-level experimental zones; Two projects (including 10 major) were approved by the Ministry of Education as "excellent teacher training plan reform projects". Nine courses were rated as national excellent courses and 47 courses as provincial excellent courses; Eight courses were rated as national top-quality video open courses and eight courses as national top-quality teacher education resources. Five courses were rated as national quality resources * * * courses, and 42 courses were rated as provincial quality resources * * * courses; 1 course was rated as a national excellent online open course; Three courses were rated as national bilingual demonstration courses and three courses as provincial bilingual demonstration courses.
The school has vigorously implemented the strategy of strengthening the school through scientific research, and its scientific research strength has been continuously improved. In the past five years, * * * has undertaken 1 105 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial levels, including 237 national social science fund projects and 152 projects of the Ministry of Education, ranking among the best for three consecutive years. He has published 737 books and 6340 academic papers, and 1 19 achievements have won awards at or above the provincial level. In natural science research, * * * strives for the vertical research project 1 168, including 3 key projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, 2 major national research instrument development projects, the special fund project for basic research of scientific instruments 1, the continuing support project of overseas, Hong Kong and Macao scholars' cooperative research fund 1, and 3 outstanding youth science fund projects; 2 science and technology support projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology; The Ministry of Education has 1 central financial major projects to transform scientific and technological achievements. Published and participated in 66 academic works/kloc-0, including 72 monographs and 8589 academic papers, and 58 achievements won provincial and ministerial science and technology awards; There are 806 patents authorized, including 642 invention patents and 2 foreign invention patents.
The school is a national college students' cultural quality education base, a national model school for standardization of language and writing, a national college preparatory education base for ethnic minorities, an intensive training base for graduate students with high-level backbone talents of ethnic minorities of the Ministry of Education, a training and research base for college counselors of the Ministry of Education, and a training and research base for college counselors of Shaanxi Province. The school attaches great importance to students' comprehensive quality education and ethnic education, vigorously promotes the cultural spirit of "generosity and diligence" and builds a high-grade campus culture. For 18 years in a row, it was awarded "model unit of national unity and progress" by the State Council, the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, the State Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, "national advanced unit of spiritual civilization construction" by the Central Committee of Civilization, and "national advanced collective of college students' social practice" by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China, the Ministry of Education and the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League.
The libraries in the two campuses of the school cover an area of 57,800 square meters, with 4.28 million paper books, 77 platforms and 234 electronic resource databases at home and abroad. The school also has an education museum, which consists of four parts: China Education Museum, Women's Cultural Center, Historical and Cultural Center and Painting and Calligraphy Art Museum. The school has edited and published academic journals such as Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Science Edition, Natural Science Edition), Contemporary Teacher Education, China History Theory Series, and China Art Education. Among them, Journal of Shaanxi Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) was selected as the 1 1 academic journal of social sciences supported by the Ministry of Education. School Press has been established for more than 30 years, and it is one of the university press with annual sales exceeding 100 million. It is a comprehensive publishing media enterprise integrating books, periodicals, electronics, audio and video, online publishing, radio and television program production and educational and cultural services. In humanities, popular culture, basic education, higher education and other publishing fields, it has formed distinctive features, and more than 600 kinds of books have won national or provincial and ministerial awards, which has great social influence. Eight kinds of secondary school teaching reference journals with a history of more than 40 years have been edited and published, which have been recognized as academic journals by the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television, and seven of them have been selected as national Chinese core journals.
The school has continuously strengthened foreign exchanges and cooperation, and has successively established friendly and cooperative relations with more than 30 countries including the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, South Korea, Japan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Armenia, as well as more than 38 universities and educational institutions in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan/KLOC-0, and carried out various forms of exchanges and cooperation; Actively respond to the national "Belt and Road Initiative" and initiate the establishment of the Silk Road "Teacher Education Alliance", "Humanities and Social Sciences Alliance" and "Books and Archives Publishing Alliance". The school began to recruit foreign students from 1965, and has trained more than 5600 foreign students from 103 countries around the world. The school has "the State Council Overseas Chinese Affairs Office Chinese Education Base" and Hanban "HSK Chinese Proficiency Test Center", as well as two Confucius Institutes in the United States as Chinese cooperation institutions.
The school has attached middle schools, attached primary schools and kindergartens with the nature of teaching experiments, among which the attached middle schools are century-old famous schools, key middle schools in Shaanxi Province and the first batch of demonstration high schools in Shaanxi Province, while the attached primary schools and kindergartens are provincial demonstration primary schools and kindergartens. In recent years, the school has given full play to the advantages of educational resources and cooperated with social enterprises to build more than 0/0 primary and secondary schools and kindergartens such as Jinyuan International School, Anjiajiang No.1 Middle School, Olympic Garden School, Lvdiba Primary School and Vanke Primary School.
The school is one of the earliest universities in China to implement the socialization reform of logistics, and has explored a road of logistics reform known as "Shaanxi Normal University Model", and the construction of logistics informatization has also had a wide impact throughout the country.
At present, Shaanxi Normal University takes the opportunity of deepening the comprehensive education reform, actively promotes the construction of "double first-class", comprehensively improves the quality of education and teaching, scientific research level, social service ability and internationalization level, and is striving towards the goal of a comprehensive research university with teacher education as its main feature.