Tianshui Normal University
Founded in 1959 and a university since 2000, Tianshui Normal University is known for its excellent teaching quality, research potentials and its strong links to local agriculture, industry and education. This was confirmed by the National-wide University Evaluation Program initiated by Ministry of Education, P. R. China in 2007. In 2011, the university was listed one of the pilot institutions for the programs of professional Master of Education by the Ministry of Education, P. R. China, and started recruiting students of professional Master of Educationin 2013. It was selected into the first batch of pilot universities aiming towards the universities of applied sciences by Gansu Provincial Government in 2015. In 2018, the university was authorized to confer Master’s Degree by the Ministry of Education. This university offers 57 undergraduate and postgraduate programs in arts, science, education, history, law, engineering, economy, and management for Chinese and oversea students, and also provides Continuing Professional Development Programs for local teachers of basic education and engineering technicians of industry and agriculture.
Campus and Location
Tianshui Normal University has 370, 000 square meters floor area and 110 acres of land in total. It is situated in Tianshui,a famous city for its long history and rich culture, and one of the most welcoming cities in the southeast Gansu Province. Being one of the places where the Chinese national civilization started, Tianshui is also the birthplace of Fuxi and Nüwa who were the ancestors of Chinese nation.
People and Facilities
Tianshui Normal University enrolls students from 27 provinces (municipalitiesor regions ), with a population of 16847 students, among whom 15884 are undergraduates, 883 professional Master of Education students, 1167 students for further education, 4 oversea students and 80 preparatory undergraduates. It has 943 staff including 105 professors, 281 associate professors, over 540 doctor’s or master’s degree academic staff, 1 Ph.D supervisor, 82 master supervisors, 8 yearly-contracted foreign teaching staff and 10 professors of national-wide prestige. The university library has a collection of over 2, 260, 000 books, 32 kinds of database. The teaching and research facilities of the university amounts to ¥150,000,000 and its fixed assets totals ¥ 847, 000, 000 in price. An up-to-date network service system has been built to undertake the functions of distance learning, comprehensive academic management, campus computer network, campus communication, and cable television network.
Teaching and Research
The university consists of 17 schools, 64 departments, 18 research centers, with 57 undergraduate and postgraduate programs (2 national-level feature education programs, 11on provincial level), covering a wide range of disciplines such as teacher education, engineering and technology, business management, culture, sports and arts etc. It has 2 first-class provincial cultivation disciplines: history and ecology, 2 provincial key construction disciplines: history of particular subjects and literary theory. Microbiology is the provincial key cultivation discipline. It has 1 national-level teaching team of Huang Da-nian Style, 5 provincial-level teaching teams, 22 provincial-level high-quality curriculum and 2 provincial-level shared courses of quality resources.
In recent years, over 1500 academic research projects including 105 national projects and 249 provincial projects have been completed. TSNU has won a total of over 500 scientific research awards, 91 of which areat the provincial or ministerial level. More than 9,000 pieces of academic papers have been published on domestic and foreign academic journals, including 500 on SCI or EI source journals, and over 450 pieces on CSSCI source journals. Over 650 monographs and textbooks have been published. Journal of Tianshui Normal University has been awarded the title of “High-quality Social Science Journal of China” many times, and one of its feature columns “Studies on the Cultures of Eastern and Southern Gansu Province”, has repeatedly won the title of “National-level Column of Social Science Journal of China” .
Cooperation and Exchanges
Tianshui Normal University has established academic cooperation with universities or scientific institutions from Britain, America, France, German, Australia,Ukraine and other countries around the world. Over the past five years (from 2014 to 2018), 200 guests from foreign countries have visited TSNU; a total of 120 teaching staff have gone overseas on business, academic conferences or Cooperative scientific research; A number of undergraduates and postgraduates have been sent to study abroad even for a degree; More than 40 oversea students have been enrolled by TSNU.
With 60 years’of development, the university has made much progress in students training, scientific research, serving local communities, cultural inheritance and innovation, and has been highly praised and rewarded by both Ministry of Education and Gansu Provincial government. Based on what has been achieved so far, the university aims to upgrade itself into a high-level university of applied sciences with strong features of teacher education, striving to make great contributions to the socio-economic development of local and nearby regions.
Adhering to the spirit of "survival in difficult circumstances, striving for development", the school based on its own reality, keep up with the pace of higher education development in the new era, initially formed four categories of applied professional groups of teacher education, engineering technology, business management, cultural and physical arts, clearly based in the southeast, serving Gansu Province, to the whole of China's school positioning and active service national strategy and local needs, take the initiative to accept the leadership of local Party committees, actively serve regional economic and social development of the school ideas, identified
The school has 1 college, 17 secondary colleges and 64 teaching departments (departments).
The school currently has 1,409 faculty members (of whom 870 are full-time teachers), 118 professors (researchers), 308 deputy senior title teachers, 258 doctoral teachers (including students), and more than 704 master's degree teachers. The teaching staff includes 11 national colleges and universities HuangDaYian-style teachers team, 10 provincial teaching teams, there are outstanding teachers, national advanced workers, enjoy the special allowance experts of the State Council, "Baosteel Education Fund excellent teachers", the Ministry of Education in the new century talent support program candidates, etc. More than 100 people, such as the candidates for the Yanyuan Youth Innovation Talent Support Program, are 100 people.
The school is open to students from 26 provinces (cities and districts) and currently has more than 17,000 students of all kinds, including more than 15,000 undergraduates and nearly 900 graduate students. Hundreds of thousands of high-quality applied talents, mainly teachers in basic education, have been trained for the society, which has been generally recognized by the society. Schools because of "based on education to train qualified teachers, the direction is clear."Indeed, the achievements are remarkable "by the State Education Commission recognition awards."
The school has built one base of Chinese excellent traditional cultural heritage in Gansu Province, one science and technology park for college students, and six demonstration centers for experimental teaching in gansu province. In the past three years, students have won more than 100 national awards and more than 800 provincial awards in various professional competitions, especially in the national college mathematics competition (Gansu District), ranking first in provincial colleges and universities for six consecutive years;
The school currently has two first-class special subject groups in Gansu Province, including Chinese Chinese, Chinese history, ecology, electronic science and technology, chemistry, Marxist theory, education and mathematics. There are 3 master's degree authorized first-level disciplines (Chinese Chinese literature, Marxist theory, chemistry), and 6 professional master's degree authorization points (master's degree in education, master's degree in electronic information, master's degree in mechanics, master's degree in sports, master's degree in biology and medicine, master's degree in cultural relics and museums). There are 61 undergraduate majors (of which 2 are first-class national majors, 2 are national-level specialty, 16 are provincial first-class undergraduate majors, and 11 are provincial-level first-class majors). Existing provincial first-class undergraduate courses 12, quality courses 22, quality resources sharing courses 2.
The school currently has a national and regional research center for the record of the Ministry of Education, 12 provincial scientific research institutions and 1 academician workstation.
In the past 5 years, the school has won more than 800 scientific research projects of various kinds, of which 46 are state-level projects and more than 190 are provincial (ministerial) level projects 6 first prizes for outstanding achievements in provincial social science, 146 academic monographs (textbooks) published, and more than 2,100 scientific research papers published in academic journals at home and abroad, including more than 300 SCI and CSSCI source publications. The academic journal Tianshui Normal College Journal has been awarded the title of "National Excellent Social Science Journal" many times, and the "National Social Science Journal Excellent Column" has been awarded the "National Social Science Journal" several timestitle.
The school insists on opening up its schools and establishing cooperative relations with more than 120 well-known universities, enterprises and institutions and local governments at home and abroad. With Xi'an Jiaotong University, Lanzhou University, Shaanxi Normal University and other more than 10 universities to establish peer-to-peer assistance and cooperative relations, with Tianshui Huatian Electronics Group, Dongxu Group, Tianrui Heavy Industries and other enterprises and institutions jointly set up "Gansu University Integrated Circuit Industry Development Research Institute" "Photoelectric Display Materials Research Institute" "Academic Workstation" and other more than 10 platforms, jointly address the development of technology bottleneck services industry; "Research in culture, ecology, environment and other fields, with the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Germany and other countries more than 20 universities to establish friendly and cooperative relations, carry out various forms of exchanges and cooperation, since 2003 to recruit foreign students, has trained more than 200 students from 21 countries." Relying on the rural talent education and training base in Gansu Province, a total of more than 6000 people have been trained for the region to develop new rural skills.
The school closely revolves around the fundamental task of the Lidshu people and deeply practices the core socialist values. To the red cultural education experience museum as the position to continue the red gene, to the sky water rotation inspiration, tianshui carving paint and so on as a grasping hand to promote the development of regional culture, to Zhang Hongxun and other teachers as a model to lead the cultivation of moral education culture, to the national top 100 humanities association Hanhai Tide Literature Society as a model rich community culture, to school history museum, museum, Ho Songlin Art Museum, radar literature museum, school art museum as a carrier to highlight the characteristics of aesthetic education, build a "five-in-one" cultural education system.
In 2005 by the Central Commission for Civilization awarded the "National Civilization Unit" honorary title, in 2018 was awarded the first batch of provincial civilization campus honorary title, in 2021 was approved Gansu Province Red Gene Heritage Demonstration School.