II. Brief Introduction of Tianping College of Suzhou University of Science and Technology
"Only when you stand at the top of the Longmen late will you know your life experience and balance". Tianping College of Suzhou University of Science and Technology is a full-time undergraduate college approved by the Ministry of Education, with a four-year schooling. It is located in the national high-tech industrial development zone in the west of the ancient city of Suzhou. College 1999 was established, and enrollment began in September 2000. In 2005, according to the spirit of Document No.8 [2003] of the Ministry of Education and No.40 [2005] of the Jiangsu Provincial Department of Education, it was changed into an independent college, which is one of the earliest independent colleges established in Jiangsu Province. The parent school, Suzhou University of Science and Technology, was formed by the merger of the former Suzhou Institute of Urban Construction and Environmental Protection and Suzhou Railway Teachers College in September, 200012000. It is an ordinary institution of higher learning with the coordinated development of engineering, science, literature, management and art, established by the central and local governments and mainly managed by Jiangsu Province.
At present, the college has administrative institutions such as the Party and Government Office, Finance Office, Academic Affairs Office, Student Affairs Office and Youth League Committee. There are teaching management institutions such as Marxist College, Landscape Architecture Department, Environmental Engineering Department, Civil Engineering Department, Electronic and Information Engineering Department, Economic Management Department, Humanities Department, Chemical and Biological Engineering Department, Art Department, Foreign Languages Department, Music Department, Electromechanical Engineering Department and Sports Department. In order to strengthen student management, six student work offices have been set up on the principle of similar majors in the department, with an efficient and capable student management and service team.
The college currently has more than 8,200 full-time undergraduates, enrolling students from 18 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. There are landscape architecture, environmental engineering, water supply and drainage science and engineering, building environment and energy application engineering, human geography and urban and rural planning, civil engineering (construction engineering), civil engineering (road and bridge engineering), computer science and technology, electronic information engineering, communication engineering, engineering management, engineering cost, financial management, hotel management, marketing, logistics management, Chinese language and literature, secretarial science, human resource management, and so on. Visual communication design, English, business English, translation, Japanese, musicology, musicology (modern electronic music), musicology (instrumental music and percussion music), mechanical design and manufacturing and its automation, electrical engineering and its automation, etc. 3 1 specialty (direction) has formed a work-oriented, coordinated development of engineering, science, literature, management, art and other disciplines.
With excellent school conditions, elegant campus environment and complete infrastructure, the college is an ideal place for students to study and further their studies. The College not only has an independent campus at No.55 Changjiang Road (formerly No.8 Changjiang Road) in Suzhou, but also has modern teaching building and experimental building, network center, multimedia classroom, language lab, computing center, library, standard track and field stadium and football field and other educational and teaching facilities. Also enjoy the advanced teaching resources of Jiangfeng Campus and Shihu Campus of Suzhou University of Science and Technology. There are more than 760,000 Chinese books in the college library, with 9 1.8 books per student. Rich in electronic resources, with its own database 10, and * * * enjoys more than 50 Chinese and foreign language databases in the parent school.
Relying on the excellent teacher resources of Suzhou University of Science and Technology, the College has established a team of full-time and part-time teachers. Among the self-owned full-time teachers, 8 were selected as the training targets of outstanding young backbone teachers in the "Blue Project" in Jiangsu Province, 3 were awarded the title of outstanding educators at the municipal level, and 2 were awarded the Suzhou Youth May 4th Medal. * * * Among the teachers in the parent school, many teachers have won the National "May 1st" Labor Medal, national advanced workers, young and middle-aged experts who have made outstanding contributions at the national and provincial levels, and famous teachers in Jiangsu universities and other awards or honorary titles.
The college insists on teaching as the center, strengthens the teaching capital construction and attaches importance to the cultivation of young teachers. In 20 16, the teachers of our college won the first prize and the best teaching mode prize in the first national competition for English teachers in colleges and universities. In 20 16, a teacher won the second prize in the second "Foreign Teachers' Club Cup" translation (interpretation) competition for foreign language teachers in provincial universities. In 20 17, one teacher won the second prize and three teachers won the third prize in the micro-course teaching competition (undergraduate group) of colleges and universities in Jiangsu Province. In 20 18, two teachers won the first prize and one teacher won the third prize in the first micro-class competition for young teachers in Jiangsu undergraduate colleges.
The college encourages and supports teachers to carry out scientific research and teaching research. In recent years, the college has allocated special funds to carry out professional (curriculum) construction, teaching and research reform projects and scientific research projects, and successively 17 professional construction projects, 58 curriculum construction projects, 4 teaching material construction projects and 7 1 higher education research and reform projects have been supported by the school. In the past three years, teachers in our college have made remarkable achievements in the application of provincial and municipal scientific research projects: 8 natural science research projects in Jiangsu universities, 37 philosophy and social science research projects in Jiangsu universities, 1 project of excellent social science application research projects in Jiangsu province, and 6 social science planning projects (application countermeasures) in Suzhou. Forward-looking applied research project of technological innovation in key industries of Suzhou Science and Technology Bureau 1 item, soft science project of Suzhou Association for Science and Technology 1 item, Suzhou Social Science Fund project 1 item, and 23 scientific research fund projects of the Academy. At the same time, he won Jiangsu Education, Teaching and Research Achievement Award (research category) 1 item and Suzhou 14th Excellent Achievement Award of Philosophy and Social Sciences 1 item.
In recent years, the college has gradually formed a quality education as the main line, students' employment as the guidance, and the cultivation of applied and innovative talents at the undergraduate level as the goal, paying attention to daily management, strictly controlling teaching quality, highlighting practical application links and paying attention to students' all-round development. The word "strict" should be taken as the first priority in students' education and management, and the school should be governed by regulations, and the style of study and examination should be paid close attention to. The system of "morning and evening self-study for junior students", "no mobile phone class", "entering the class ten minutes in advance", "class integral management" and "examination patrol notice" should be fully implemented to continuously strengthen students' good study habits. Innovate the path of students' work, build brand-name educational carriers such as "college student nursing team", "college student affairs service center" and "college student independent management and development Committee", and strive to cultivate students' "three-self" ability. A "four-in-one" mental health service system of school, government, family and society has been established, which continuously improves students' social adaptability, frustration and emotional adjustment ability and guides students to grow up healthily. The management of student financial assistance adheres to the concept of "people-oriented, thoughtful service", and achieves "meticulous policy implementation, accurate identification of difficulties, diversified forms of student assistance, and normalization of educational activities" to achieve full coverage of financial assistance and education. In 20 15, the innovative work funded by our college won the first prize in the evaluation of outstanding financial aid projects for students with financial difficulties in Suzhou.
In academic competitions, students of our college have made outstanding achievements in international, national and provincial competitions. In the past four years, there have been 220 awards in various disciplines at all levels, totaling 37 1 person-time, including 16 in international competitions, 52 in national competitions, 2 in East China competitions, and 150 in Jiangsu competitions, and a number of people have emerged with lofty ideology, solid basic theory and strong practical ability. Among them, in 20 17, he won the second and third prizes of the team in the "Yuanye Cup" landscape architecture international competition; 20 17 and 20 18 won the first prize of the team in China Engineering robot contest and International Open (Bipedal Race) for two consecutive years; In 20 18, he won the national second prize in the "FLTRP Cup" national university student speech competition; 20 16, 20 17 and 20 18 won the second and third prizes in national english contest for college students for three consecutive years; On 20 17, the 6th "LSCAT cup" national interpretation competition (English) was awarded the second prize in Jiangsu province. In the national university students' "UFIDA New Road Cup" sand table simulation competition-Jiangsu final, "FLTRP Cup" National University Students' English Challenge Jiangsu Division, Jiangsu University Students' Civil Engineering Structure Innovation Competition (model exhibition competition) and other provincial and municipal competitions. A number of high-quality applied and innovative talents with lofty ideology and morality, solid basic theory, strong practical ability and broad international vision have emerged.
In terms of cultivating students' innovative and entrepreneurial ability, good news is frequently reported. In 20 14, the students of our college teamed up to represent the parent school and won the gold medal in the "Creating Youth" National Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Competition. Won the third prize in the final of the 14th "Challenge Cup" competition in Jiangsu Province in 20 15; In the 20 16 "Creating Youth" Jiangsu University Student Entrepreneurship Competition, I participated independently and won the gold medal, bronze medal and "Excellent Organization Award". In addition, it has won more than 20 awards for other national, provincial and municipal innovation and entrepreneurship competitions. During the three years from 20 14 to 20 17, 13 of the entrepreneurial projects declared by students in our college were funded by the entrepreneurial fund of the Provincial People's Social Welfare Department, and * * * won the entrepreneurial fund1300,000 yuan.
The college actively innovates the construction of campus culture carrier and builds a healthy, positive and progressive campus culture. Taking student organizations such as student union, association, art troupe, association for science and technology, creative association and new media center as the starting point, we will integrate resources inside and outside the school and create brand activities such as campus cultural carnival; The Youth Federation of the Academy has extensively carried out various volunteer service activities. At present, it has established volunteer service bases with more than 40 units including Suzhou Canal Community, BenQ Hospital and Wudianyuan Kindergarten, and actively participated in volunteer service activities covering environmental protection, serving the elderly, caring for children, organizing blood donation, voluntary tutoring and cultural inheritance. Among them, the 53rd World Table Tennis Championships held in Suzhou, the 20 15 "16+ 1" Central and Eastern European countries leaders meeting summit and other volunteer service activities were especially well received by the organizers.
The college actively organizes students to participate in off-campus art and cultural exchange competitions, and students have won many successes in various competitions. Among them, the chorus of Suzhou University of Science and Technology, which was composed of 7 students from the Music Department of our college/KLOC-0, won the gold medal in the 9th China Golden Bell Chorus Competition and the first prize in the national college students' art performance vocal music (professional group); Two students' calligraphy works won the first and second prizes in the art exhibition of college students in Jiangsu Province; For eight years in a row, he participated in the Friendship Debate Competition of Sun Tzu's Art of War for college students on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and won many honors such as Imperial Seal Award, Hongdao Cup, First Prize, Best Debater and Outstanding Debater.
The college sports work has been continuously carried out in depth. The college has sports associations such as Taekwondo and Badminton Association, and is equipped with instructors with national referee qualifications for standardized and professional guidance. In competitive events, the college won the first place in the total score of the parent school sports meeting and the total score of track and field for five consecutive years; In the competition of Suzhou Sports Meeting (undergraduate college group) in 20 16, the team of our college won the third place in the total score of the group and the third place in the total number of gold medals; The Dragon Dance Team of Suzhou University of Science and Technology, which was formed by students from our college, won the 12th China Folk Literature and Art "Mountain Flower Award".
Focusing on the training goal of applied and innovative undergraduate talents, the college is guided by students' employment and vigorously carries out academic guidance, career planning guidance and employment guidance. Taking advantage of its geographical advantages, the College promotes graduates' high-quality employment through full-course employment guidance, multi-level base construction and high-quality campus job fairs, and the employment situation is gratifying. Over the past ten years, the college has sent more than 20,000 graduates to all walks of life, many of whom have become the backbone of their industries, enterprises and institutions, and have been affirmed and praised by employers. In recent three years, the average year-end employment rate of the college reached 96.9%, both the initial employment rate and the year-end employment rate were higher than the provincial average, and the agreed employment rate was greatly improved. A large number of graduates were employed by large enterprises such as Zhongyifeng, Golden Mantis and Jiangnan Jiajie.
The college creates conditions to serve students for postgraduate entrance examination. The college opens a special classroom for postgraduate entrance examination to create a good learning environment for postgraduate students; The establishment of postgraduate scholarships encourages students to take postgraduate entrance examinations, and the rate of enrollment in postgraduate entrance examinations has been continuously improved. In recent years, many students have been admitted to Peking University, Southeast University, Sun Yat-sen University, Tongji University, Sydney University, Waseda University, National University of Singapore and other well-known universities at home and abroad for further study. In addition, the parent school has 16 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines, 96 master's degree authorized two disciplines (discipline direction) and 6 professional master's degree authorized points, covering most majors in our college, providing a better platform for students to further their studies.
The international exchange of college students depends on the parent school. Suzhou University of Science and Technology has established inter-school cooperation relations with more than 70 universities in the United States, Britain, Germany, Australia, Japan, Sweden and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The student exchange, teacher exchange visits and scientific research cooperation projects carried out can be enjoyed by teachers and students of our college. In particular, since its establishment, the Japanese major of the College has established good cooperative relations with Sakura Merrill Lynch University, Nara University of Technology, Nara University and Kansai Foreign Studies University in Japan, and a certain number of students go to these universities for short-term study and exchange every year. In recent years, * * * 67 students have gone abroad for exchange, among which 26 students have participated in overseas study exchange, 4 students have participated in overseas cultural exchange program of Jiangsu Province, 1 student has participated in overseas scholarship program of Jiangsu Province, 1 student has participated in British cultural exchange program, and 35 students have participated in summer international exchange program.
The college attaches great importance to the party building work and provides a strong organizational guarantee for the development of various undertakings in the college. Over the years, Party building in our college has adhered to the principle of "centering on the center and serving the overall situation", constantly strengthened the construction of "learning", "service" and "rule of law" party organizations, and innovated working methods and means, and achieved remarkable results. Over the past few years, the Party Committee of the College has won many honors, such as "Advanced Grass-roots Party Organizations in Provincial Colleges and Universities", "Innovation Award for Party Building Work in the School" and "Best Party Day Activities in the School".
"Xiongguan Man Road is really like iron, and now it's a step from the beginning." Guided by the "four comprehensive" strategic layout and the "five-in-one" presidential layout, the college firmly establishes and implements the new development concept of "innovation, coordination, green, openness and enjoyment", adheres to the orientation of applying innovative talents, adheres to the road of standardized development, transformational development and characteristic development, and constantly explores new ideas and measures for running an independent college in China at an early date. ;