Shandong University for the Aged, founded in 1983, is the first university for the aged in China to establish a cadre retirement system. At present, it is a public welfare institution with reference to the management of civil servants at the official level. It is managed by the Organization Department of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Bureau of Retired Veteran Cadres of the Provincial Party Committee, and the funds are included in the provincial budget. The school has seven offices, namely, office, academic affairs office, office of veteran cadres of the Party School of the Provincial Party Committee, teaching and research section, service guarantee office, party committee of government organs and the magazine Education for the Aged. There are 40 employees, including 33 dispatched employees, 24 rehired employees and more than 200 teachers. At present, the school has 4 campuses and 3 branch schools; Establish fine arts colleges, vocal music colleges, instrumental music colleges, dance and physical education colleges, training colleges and art groups for the elderly; Set up more than 60 majors and more than 600 teaching classes such as calligraphy and Chinese painting; The number of registered people reached 6.5438+0.8 million. Since its establishment, it has established the first national publication on education for the elderly, compiled and published the first set of teaching materials for the elderly, formulated the teaching syllabus for the elderly with the largest number of departments, and been rated as a provincial civilized unit for many years in a row. With the attention of the provincial party committee and government and the care and support from all walks of life, Shandong University for the Aged has become the spiritual home of the elderly in the provincial capital, a bridge and link between the party committee and government and veteran comrades, and an important window for the foreign exchange of the province's cultural pension cause.

The motto of Shandong University for the Aged is: respect teachers and respect morality, pursue learning, cultivate self-cultivation and live a happy life.

The philosophy of Shandong University for the Aged is: to be suitable for learning and educating people, and to have fun.

20 15 Shandong university for the aged put forward the development idea of "1234". That is, to define "one general goal": strive to achieve the best leap from the earliest to the best; Implement "two projects": school development planning project and standardized model school construction project; Create "three bases": the ideological and political education base for retired cadres in the province, the cultural pension base for the elderly in the provincial capital, and the demonstration base for the elderly education in the province and even the whole country; Building "four centers": demonstration guidance center, theoretical research center, teacher training center and distance education center, Shandong University for the Aged will continue to contribute to the development of education for the aged in the process of seeking truth from facts and pioneering and innovating.