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The History of Xinyang Normal School
Xinyang normal university

Overview: Xinyang Teachers College was founded in 1975, formerly known as Kaifeng Teachers College Xinyang Branch. Xinyang Teachers College was established in1978,65438+February. There are 8 secondary colleges, 9 departments (departments), 27 undergraduate majors, 13 specialist majors and 2 master's degree awarding points. There are more than 900 full-time teachers and about 400 professors and associate professors. The library has more than 980,000 books.

Xinyang Normal University is a provincial undergraduate college, which has the right to award bachelor's degree and master's degree, and undertakes the glorious mission of training qualified teachers for basic education and senior professionals for economic construction. The school is located in Xinyang, a famous city in southern Henan where Beijing-Guangzhou Line, Ningxi Line, 107 Line and 3 12 Line meet. It is adjacent to Nanwan Lake, the "Pearl of Changhuai" in the west, and Jigongshan, the "Yunzhong Park" in the south. The campus is beautiful, surrounded by flowers and trees, and the scenery is pleasant.

After more than 20 years of efforts, the school has developed into an undergraduate college with 36 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines such as literature, history, philosophy, economics, management, law, teaching, science and engineering. Seven majors, including basic mathematics, Marxist theory and ideological and political education, recruit graduate students. There are network information and computing centers, 55 laboratories of various types, 18 multimedia classrooms and microteaching, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 34 million yuan. Faculty 1 100, including nearly 300 teachers with senior titles and 70 teachers with master's and doctor's degrees. There are more than 4000 graduate students and college students/kloc-0, and more than 6000 adult education students.

The school attaches importance to education, teaching and scientific research, and the teaching quality and scientific research level are constantly improving. The school's teaching achievement "Two-way Training: A New Way of Teaching Practice Reform in Normal Universities" won the first prize of National Excellent Teaching Achievement and the special prize of Henan Excellent Teaching Achievement. In the past three years, more than 50 teaching achievements have passed the provincial appraisal, and 1 1 won the teaching achievement award of Henan universities. In the past five years, school teachers have presided over more than 200 scientific research projects at or above the provincial level, including more than 200 national projects 10. He presided over the Henan Provincial Department of Education 136 project. He has published more than 3,000 academic papers at home and abroad, published more than 60 works/kloc-0, and won more than 400 awards at the prefecture level and above. The school has strengthened academic exchanges with foreign countries and established solid ties with universities in the United States, Britain, Canada, Japan, South Korea and other countries. Journal of Xinyang Normal University was published in 10 countries and regions, ranking among the "Top Ten" journals of normal universities in China, and was rated as the national core journal of humanities and social sciences, the first-class journal of Henan Province, and the excellent sci-tech journal. Natural Science Edition was selected into the 2004 edition of National Chinese Core Journals.

The school has effectively strengthened Party building, ideological and political work and spiritual civilization construction, and achieved fruitful results, forming an excellent school spirit of "unity, diligence, truth-seeking and innovation". The school has been rated as an advanced unit of social practice for college students in Henan Province 13 for 8 consecutive years, and an advanced unit of social practice for college students in China, and won the "Chinese Literacy Award". The school has been awarded the titles of "Advanced Unit for Employment Distribution of College Graduates in Henan Province", "Advanced Unit for Student Work in Colleges and Universities in Henan Province", "Advanced Unit for Party Building and Ideological and Political Work in Henan Province", "Provincial Civilized School", "Civilized Demonstration School in Henan Province", "Advanced Unit for Creating a Safe and Civilized Campus in Henan Province" and "Garden-style Unit in Xinyang City" by Henan Provincial Party Committee.

In May of 20001year, the school successfully passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. Promoting construction through evaluation, the school scale has been further expanded, and the quality, level and benefit of running a school have been significantly improved. At present, the school is seizing the opportunity to accelerate its development and strive to build a normal university with all characteristics, high level and popularity as soon as possible.