Chengdu normal university is a public full-time undergraduate college organized by the Sichuan Provincial People's Government and directly managed by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education. Its predecessor was Sichuan Institute of Education, which was founded in 1955. On March 20 12, it was renamed chengdu normal university with the approval of the Ministry of Education.
The school is located in Chengdu, a famous historical and cultural city in China. There are three campuses, namely Renmin South Road, Wenjiang and Baiguolin, with a total area of 1 100 mu. The teaching building, experimental building, library, student dormitory, playground and other teaching and student living facilities are complete. There are three experimental centers for science, engineering, information and calculation, four training centers for language development, teachers' professional skills, art and sports, and management, and more than 60 professional experiment (training) rooms. More than 20 off-campus teaching practice (training) bases/kloc-0; Teaching and scientific research instruments and equipment are worth more than 80 million yuan. The library has more than 65,438 paper books+3,000 volumes, more than 2,200 Chinese and foreign newspapers and periodicals, and 4.2TB of electronic documents. Beautiful school environment and rich teaching resources provide high-quality conditions for students' study and life.
The school has a high-level team of full-time and part-time teachers. There are more than 700 full-time teachers, including more than 270 full-time and associate professors, and more than 340 teachers with master's and doctoral degrees. It has more than 30 national and provincial experts, including provincial academic and technical leaders, experts enjoying special allowances from the State Council and provincial famous teachers. There are several provincial teaching teams, provincial experimental areas and provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers for talent training mode innovation, 18 national and provincial excellent courses, and 2 provincial comprehensive professional reform pilot projects. Sichuan Psychological Society, Sichuan Tao Xingzhi Research Association, Sichuan Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Professional Development Research Center, Sichuan Early Development and Research Center for Children Aged 0-3, Sichuan Southeast Asia Economic and Cultural Research Center, Sichuan Primary and Secondary School Teachers' Ethics Research Center and other associations and provincial research centers are affiliated with schools. In the past three years, teachers have published more than 1000 scientific research achievements, including nearly 200 monographs and teaching materials, won 32 teaching and research awards at or above the provincial and ministerial level, undertaken more than 40 provincial and ministerial level projects, and published more than 260 influential academic papers in famous academic journals at home and abroad, such as SCI, EI, etc.
After 60 years of construction, the school has developed into an application-oriented ordinary undergraduate college with equal emphasis on teachers and non-teachers, infiltration of arts and sciences, and combination of science and engineering. It is one of the main training bases for teacher education in Sichuan Province, and the major of teacher education covers pedagogy, literature, science, art and law. It has Sichuan primary and secondary school teachers' vocational skills training center and provincial teachers' vocational quality experimental teaching demonstration center, which integrates Putonghua, microteaching, courseware making, multimedia teaching, distance network education, psychological education and class management. The school has innovated the trinity talent training mode of "cultivating teachers' morality, subject teaching and teacher's professional skills training", which shows the advantages of pre-service and post-service integrated teacher education and has trained more than 200,000 applied talents.
Facing the needs of economic and social development, non-normal majors have emerged as applied technical undergraduate and specialist majors covering arts, science, engineering, economics and management. Innovate the talent training mode of "school-land co-construction, school-school cooperation, school-enterprise cooperation" and "Industry-University-Research integration, teaching integration", and cultivate compound applied technical talents with strong practical ability, innovative spirit, high cultural quality and strong social responsibility. There are Industry-University-Research Collaborative Innovation Centers between schools and enterprises, such as Automotive Big Data Research Center and BIM Technology Application Center. There are more than 50 student associations, more than 40 subject competitions and college students' innovation and entrepreneurship training programs, which provide students with opportunities to improve their comprehensive quality, cultivate their innovative spirit and ability, and enhance their employment competitiveness. The one-time employment rate of graduates has exceeded 95% for five consecutive years, and the school has been awarded the title of "Advanced Collective for Employment of Graduates of Ordinary Colleges and Universities in Sichuan Province" by the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education for five consecutive times.
Insisting on opening up schools and actively expanding international cooperation and exchanges, the school has established inter-school exchange relations with more than 10 universities and research institutions in the United States, Britain, Japan, Israel, Malaysia and other countries and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Through studying abroad, cooperating in running schools, international exchange students, and overseas paid internships, the internationalization of education has taken a new step.
The school adheres to the law of higher education teaching and talent growth, adheres to the school-running orientation of "building a core base for the professional development of basic education teachers based in Sichuan and cultivating all kinds of talents for regional economic and social development", adheres to the school motto of "love, truth, loyalty and action", practices the school-running concept of "making students' life in Chengdu Normal University a valuable journey" and is committed to "running a level and running a characteristic"