Jilin Normal University
University Description
Jilin Normal University is a key university in Jilin Province. The university was founded in 1958. After more than 60 years of construction and development, it has formed a university system that integrates undergraduates, postgraduates, international students and continuing education students, featuring teacher education, and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. The current party secretary Wang Xiku, the principal Yang Xiaotian.
The university has two campuses, Siping and Changchun, covering an area of 1 million square meters and a building area of 680,000 square meters. The campus has a comfortable environment, complete infrastructure and complete functions. There are 21 colleges, 1 teaching department, 46 research institutes, and 182 laboratories. The total value of the university’s teaching and research equipment is 463 million yuan, and the total value of fixed assets is 1.713 billion yuan. The library has a collection of 2,870,200 books.
The university currently has 18,340 full-time undergraduates, 3,277 postgraduates, 31 international students for Chinese government scholarships and provincial government scholarships, and 2,180 junior college students. There are 1,639 faculty members in the university headquarters, including 158 senior seniors and 461 associate seniors; 59 doctoral supervisors, 588 master supervisors; 4 dual-employed academicians, national-level candidates for the “New Century Talent Project” 1 person, 11 recipients of special government allowances from the State Council, 2 national outstanding teachers, 5 new century outstanding talents from the Ministry of Education, 3 provincial senior experts, 29 provincial top innovative talents, and young and middle-aged professional technical talents with outstanding contributions 15 people, Changbai Mountain scholars, 10 Changbai Mountain skilled teachers, 2 provincial lecturers, 15 provincial teaching teachers, 9 provincial outstanding teachers, 3 provincial cross-century academic and technological leaders reserve candidates, 5 provincial middle-aged and young backbone teachers , 4 provincial teaching rookies. The university was rated as “Advanced Unit for Talent Work” by the Jilin Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China and the People’s Government of Jilin Province.
The university insists on centering on education and teaching, and maintains the advantages of undergraduate teaching. There are 66 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines of literature, history, law, education, science, engineering, art, management, and economics. Among them, there are 10 national-level first-class undergraduate majors, 1 national-level comprehensive reform pilot major, and 5 national-level characteristic majors. The university was selected as a reform institution of the Ministry of Education’s Excellent Teacher Training Program. The first batch of 6 national first-class undergraduate courses, 1 national teacher education quality resource sharing project, 2 national quality video public courses, 1 national experimental teaching demonstration center, 1 national off-campus practice base for college students, national 1 demonstration project for the construction of the teacher team at the first level. 8 provincial-level first-class undergraduate majors, 13 provincial-level characteristic high-level majors, 7 provincial-level brand majors, 12 provincial-level characteristic majors, 4 provincial-level transformation and development demonstration majors (groups), provincial-level undergraduates There are 5 comprehensive reform projects for college-enterprise cooperation in applied majors (groups) of universities, 3 pilot majors for the education and training of outstanding engineers at the provincial level; 2 training bases for top-notch students in basic disciplines at the provincial level, and 2 reform demonstration projects for undergraduate talents at the provincial level. There are 5 experimental areas for training innovative talents, 19 provincial-level first-class undergraduate courses, 9 provincial-level quality online development courses, 5 provincial-level golden course construction project courses, 28 provincial-level quality courses, and provincial-level teacher education quality resource sharing 4 project-approved courses, 67 provincial-level excellent courses; 2 provincial-level university Huang Danian-style teaching teams, 13 provincial-level excellent teaching teams, 9 provincial-level experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 provincial-level college students’ off-campus practical education bases, provincial There are 3 level education training bases and 1 provincial engineering innovation training center. The university of Marxism was selected as one of the first batch of key Marxist colleges in Jilin Province. The Propaganda Department of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee and the university jointly established the university of Journalism and Communication.
The university has won 7 National Teaching Achievement Awards for 7 consecutive years. It is the only provincial university in Jilin Province that has won this award. He has won 69 provincial teaching achievement awards and 72 provincial educational technology achievement awards. The university is “National University Student Cultural Quality Education Base”, “Jilin Province University Student Cultural Quality Demonstration Base”, “Jilin Province University Student Mental Health Education Practice Base”. Students’ extracurricular activities are rich and colorful, and they have repeatedly achieved good results in the “Challenge Cup” National College Students Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Competition, “Creating Youth” National College Student Entrepreneurship Competition, and National College Student Art Performances. The university has been rated as “National Advanced Unit of Social Practice Activities of “Three Going to the Country” in the Summer Vacation of National College Student Volunteers” by the Central Propaganda Department, Ministry of Education, Youth League Central Committee, and the National Federation of Students 8 times. Honorary titles such as Youth League Committee, “Provincial May Fourth Red Flag Youth League Committee Model”, and China Volunteer Work Organization Award.
The university vigorously develops the education of postgraduates and international students. There is 1 doctoral talent training program “Manchu History and Culture” serving the special needs of the country, 20 first-level master degree authorization points, and 9 master professional degree authorization points, covering philosophy and economics. 10 disciplines including science, law, education, literature, history, science, engineering, management, and art. There are 13 provincial-level characteristic high-level disciplines, and 3 provincial universities are the most important disciplines. The university is a “Chinese Government Scholarship Program for Studying in China”. Foreign students from more than 20 countries have successively studied Chinese and professional courses in our university, and set up a Chinese proficiency test test center.
The university’s scientific research has developed rapidly. There is currently an innovation team of the Ministry of Education and 46 scientific research and innovation platforms above the provincial level, including 2 key laboratories of the Ministry of Education. Since 2016, there have been 5 national key R&D projects, presided over 77 national natural science fund projects, presided over 1 major national social science fund project, 29 national social science planning projects, and 11 national art fund projects. More than 1,500 academic papers have been published by SCI, and 308 journal papers have been included by CSSCI. Published 194 academic monographs and textbooks. Obtained 210 authorized invention patents, and obtained 66 scientific research awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level.
The university is active in foreign exchanges and actively builds an international cooperation platform. At present, it has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 100 universities and scientific research institutions in more than 20 countries and Hong Kong and Taiwan. , International student education, Chinese promotion, cooperative education, etc. have carried out extensive and in-depth cooperation. Since 2011, more than 300 teachers have been selected to study abroad through various projects, and more than 1,000 students have been selected to exchange and study overseas through joint training, exchange programs, cultural experience, and internship practices. The university currently has 3 Sino-foreign cooperative education programs and 6 international undergraduate academic mutual recognition programs.
