The school is located in Nanyang, a famous historical and cultural city. Nanyang has a long history and splendid culture. It is the center of Chu-Han culture and Three Kingdoms culture, and also the hometown of Zhang Heng, a scientific sage, and Zhang Zhongjing, a medical sage. The campus is located in Wollongong, Nanyang, close to the famous Zhuge Wuhou Temple scenic spot. Overlooking the mountains in the north and the beautiful scenery of the White River in the south, the scholarly Mo Yun and the white water in the green hills complement each other, with elegant environment and pleasant scenery. It is an ideal place for students to cultivate themselves and pursue further studies.
The school covers an area of 2,375 mu, with an existing school building area of 750,000 square meters. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment is 2 1 10,000 yuan, and the collection of paper books is10.7 million copies. The school has 265 and 438+0 colleges, Henan Cultural Reform and Development Training Base, Adult Education College and other talent training institutions, and has established good cooperative relations with many domestic and foreign colleges and enterprises such as Breno University, Gyeonggi University, South Australia University, Zhengzhou University, Huazhong Normal University, Southwest University, Zhongke Boyang Co., Ltd. and Henan Tianguan Group. At present, there are more than 25,000 full-time students, more than 8,000 adult students/kloc-0, more than 500 faculty members10/00 full-time teachers, including 26 professors10, and 375 associate professors with doctoral and master's degrees.
There are 66 undergraduate majors in the school, and it has teaching quality brands such as national specialty, provincial specialty, provincial key discipline, provincial excellent course, provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and provincial teaching team. Undergraduate majors cover ten disciplines: literature, science, engineering, law, economics, teaching, history, management, agriculture and art.
The school has established provincial key laboratories, provincial engineering laboratories, provincial university key laboratory cultivation bases, provincial university engineering technology research centers, provincial cultural industry development research bases, provincial university humanities and social sciences key research bases, Central Plains Quyi Research Base of the National Folk Literature and Art Development Center of the Ministry of Culture, Henan Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Base, Nanyang Development Strategy Research Institute, Nanyang Jade Culture Research Institute, and provincial innovation team. It has gradually become an important think tank for the study of philosophy and social sciences, the innovation of cultural heritage and the service of local economic and social development.
Vigorously promoting the "research institute" project has produced a number of landmark scientific research achievements, and its core competitiveness has been continuously enhanced. The Journal of Du Nan University and the Journal of Nanyang Normal University sponsored by the school were rated as the first-class journals in Henan Province, the top 100 social sciences journals in China and the core journals of China Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences.
The school vigorously implements the "Quality-based Project", adheres to the central position of teaching work, improves the long-term mechanism of undergraduate teaching quality monitoring and guarantee, and vigorously cultivates students' practical ability and innovative spirit in accordance with the training principle of "wide caliber, thick foundation and strong ability". The talent training brand of "Wolong Students" is quite famous in the Central Plains. Students have won awards in various competitions organized by the state, provinces and cities for many times, and their postgraduate entrance examination results are outstanding, which has won favorable comments from the society.
The school attaches great importance to employment, implements the integrated education management mode of "enrollment-training-employment", takes the lead in carrying out docking training of college students' vocational skills in China, and actively carries out career planning education, vocational skills training and employment promotion. It is the earliest national college students' vocational guidance teaching and training base awarded by the Ministry of Labor, and it is also the only national pilot unit for the construction of vocational guidance studios in undergraduate colleges. "nanyang normal University-Henan Tianguan Enterprise Group Co., Ltd. Engineering Practice Education Center" has been established as a national college student. Actively expand the employment market, and establish more than 100 employment bases in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other large and medium-sized cities to build employment platforms for students. Paying attention to the cultivation of professional awareness, vocational skills training and job market construction has become a distinctive feature of our school, and it has been praised as "a golden key to college students' employment" by China Education News. In recent years, the employment rate of graduates has been stable at over 90%, and the satisfaction of employers has exceeded 90%.
In recent years, nanyang normal University has established a new idea of transformation and connotation development, strengthened the understanding that talents are the first resource, and successively launched the "3300 Project" and the "Introduction Plan for Outstanding Talents at Home and Abroad", striving to build a high-level teaching staff, laying a solid foundation for comprehensively improving the quality of personnel training, scientific research level and social contribution rate. In 20 13 and 20 14, 27 national self-taught social science funds were established respectively, and the number of projects ranked first among more than 600 newly-upgraded undergraduate colleges in China for two consecutive years, ranking in the top ten in the province, marking that the discipline construction and scientific research level of the school have reached a new height.
The school has successively won the honors of "National Civilized Unit", "National Greening Model Unit" and "National Advanced Unit for Democratic Management of Schools". National advanced unit for college students' social practice, advanced unit for Party building in colleges and universities in Henan Province, open demonstration unit for school affairs in Henan Province, top ten unit for professional ethics construction in Henan Province, advanced unit for ideological and political work in Henan Province, first in evaluation of dormitory canteens in colleges and universities in Henan Province, first in evaluation of moral education in colleges and universities in Henan Province, first in evaluation of teachers' morality in undergraduate colleges and universities in Henan Province, advanced unit for student financial assistance in Henan Province, and advanced unit for information work in Henan Province.
According to the research results published by the evaluation of China University in 2007, our school has stepped into the ranks of "the fastest growing university in China". In the 20 10 large-scale survey and selection of the most ideal universities in Henan candidates' minds, the school won the honorary title of "the most ideal university in Henan candidates' minds" and was commended. 20 1 1 was selected as "Top 20 Universities in Henan Province", 20 12 as "Model University with the Most Employment Competitiveness in Henan Province" and 20 13 as "Undergraduate University with Social Satisfaction of Higher Education Quality in Henan Province". In 20 14, it was awarded as one of the "20 Henan education business cards worthy of recommendation".
Adhering to the university spirit of "being broad, heavy and intelligent", the school carries forward the motto of "being knowledgeable, seeking truth from facts and constantly striving for self-improvement", adheres to the school spirit of "being diligent, rigorous, harmonious and enterprising", shoulders the university mission and social trust, bases itself on Nanyang, serves the Central Plains and faces the whole country, and strives to build the school into a local, applied and international university with distinctive characteristics and high level.
Until the river bank widens at low tide, and no wind blows my lonely sail. Under the leadership of the new leadership team of nanyang normal University, all the staff are striding towards a new journey with high morale.