Yantai University is located in Yantai High-tech Zone, with Qingshan in the west and Yellow Sea in the east. It is a key comprehensive university in Shandong Province. Zhang Chengxian, former Vice Minister of Education, Party Secretary, Member of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (NPCSC) and Vice Chairman of Education, Culture and Health Committee, was appointed honorary president of Yantai University.
The school was established in 1984. Under the care and guidance of Wan Li, former vice premier of the State Council, and Zhang Chengxian, honorary president, and with the special approval of the former State Education Commission, Peking University and Tsinghua University * * * sent teaching, scientific research and management backbones to the school for direct aid, and asked the two schools to include their support for Yantai University in their long-term work plan. 1990 Peking University Tsinghua Support Yantai University Construction Committee was established, with the vice governor in charge of education in Shandong Province as the director. The Aid Committee meets every two years to study and guide the teaching, scientific research and reform and development of Yantai University. 1998, granting master's unit rights. 2 1 century, the school seized the opportunity, started a second venture, started the second phase of project construction, improved the level of running a school and accelerated the pace of development. At present, a local comprehensive university with relatively complete disciplines, perfect teaching facilities, comparable scale and strength, distinctive features and great development potential has been built. From 65438 to 0995, the school successfully passed the qualification assessment of undergraduate teaching level organized by the former State Education Commission. In 2004, it was rated as excellent in the undergraduate teaching level evaluation organized by the Ministry of Education.
The school now has 19 departments and 45 undergraduate majors, covering 9 disciplines: literature, science, engineering, law, agriculture, medicine, economics, management and teaching. There are 53 master's programs, 1 provincial key disciplines, 5 provincial key laboratories, 3 provincial engineering technology research centers, 1 provincial university science parks and 1 provincial scientific research institutes.
The school has a team of teachers with reasonable academic structure, age structure, professional title structure, academic structure and discipline (specialty) structure. At present, there are full-time teachers 1 100, and 485 professional technicians at or above the deputy senior level, including more than 30 full-time teachers 130, 373 deputy senior teachers, academicians 1 person and 98 tutors for master students. Experts 1 1 person who enjoy the special government allowance of the State Council (excluding retirees), the first national famous teacher 1 person, and 5 national outstanding teachers, of whom 2 were selected into the funding plan for young backbone teachers of the Ministry of Education; The first famous teacher in Shandong province 1 person, 4 top-notch professionals in Shandong province, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions 1 person, and 2 excellent teachers. Among the full-time teachers, there are 283 doctors and 485 masters, accounting for 64% of the full-time teachers; Among the teachers under the age of 45, 74% have a doctorate or a master's degree. The school employs 12 academicians as part-time professors, and 275 celebrities from different disciplines and professions at home and abroad as honorary professors, visiting professors and part-time professors.
The school covers an area of 6.5438+0.5 million square meters, with a building area of 760,000 square meters, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is 65.438+0.23 billion yuan. With a total area of 280,000 square meters, there are 45 basic teaching laboratories and experimental centers, 50 multimedia classrooms and 249 practice bases inside and outside the school. Teaching management has basically been scientific, standardized and modernized. The school library covers a total area of 43,800 square meters, with a collection of 6,543.8+0.46 million volumes, 6,543.8+00962 discs (boxes) of audio-visual materials and 654.38+08 Chinese and foreign language databases. Gigabit Ethernet is built on campus; There are 77 stadiums with a total area of 72,253 square meters, and the university student activity center covers an area of 25,000 square meters. In the past three years, the total investment in teaching funds has reached 205 million yuan.
The school has formed a multi-type and multi-level school-running pattern such as undergraduate education, postgraduate education, vocational and technical education, international student education and continuing education. At present, there are 2 167 1 person (including international students) and 5,000 adult higher education students. The school actively promotes the reform of education and teaching, fully implements the credit system, establishes and improves the course selection system, tutorial system, flexible academic system, major-changing system, major-minor system, double-major system, retest system and reward credit system, reforms and improves the teaching quality guarantee system, and strives to explore the educational ways of combining science and engineering, infiltrating arts and sciences, and cultivating comprehensive talents, so as to basically realize four levels of knowledge, ability, personality and physique. Since its establishment 20 years ago, it has delivered nearly 30,000 qualified talents to the society.
In the past five years, the school has won 3 outstanding achievement awards in humanities and social sciences in China universities, more than 80 awards at provincial and ministerial levels, and 3 10 awards at bureau level; Strive for 44 projects such as National Natural Science Foundation, National Social Science Fund, 863 Program, National Tenth Five-Year Major Science and Technology Project, National Xia, Shang and Zhou Dating Project, and Key Teacher Funding Program of Ministry of Education, and other provincial and ministerial projects 152, ranking among the top universities in the province in all kinds of national and provincial scientific research projects, and also setting the first place in many provincial universities; Teachers published 3,295 teaching and research papers, including more than 480 papers by SCI and EI, 3 papers were reproduced in Xinhua Digest, and 196 books were published, and 46 appraisal results were obtained. The school has been the drafter of the Contract Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Civil Code of China, and participated in the national legislative work. In 2002 and 2006, the school was rated as the national advanced collective of scientific research management in colleges and universities during the Ninth Five-Year Plan and the Tenth Five-Year Plan respectively by the Ministry of Education. In 2005, the total funding for scientific research in the school reached180,000 yuan.
At the beginning of its establishment, the school was listed as one of the first universities in China to accept foreign students and hire foreign cultural and educational experts, and established long-term cooperative relations with more than 40 universities and academic institutions in the United States, Canada, Australia, South Korea, Japan and other countries and regions. * * * More than 2 10 foreign experts and teachers were hired, more than 350 short-term foreign experts and teachers were hired, more than 30 visiting scholars were sent, and more than 20 lectures, cooperative research and academic conferences were sent abroad; More than 800 long-term international students and more than 2,300 short-term international students were trained, of which 88.2% passed the HSK exam. More than 80 international students were sent abroad for exchange. So far, 14 China-Korea academic seminar has been held with Korean universities; Mi International Business School signed and implemented the 3+ 1 teaching cooperation agreement with Southampton University in the UK. Korean majors signed and implemented 2+2 teaching agreements with Mokpo University and Busan Foreign Studies University. In 2003, the Institute of International Education Exchange was established. In 2004, an undergraduate major in Chinese language was added to recruit foreign students.
The school adheres to the people-oriented and teacher-student-oriented philosophy, attaches great importance to party building and ideological and political work, vigorously strengthens the construction of campus civilization, and pays attention to creating a humanistic environment conducive to career development with strict study style, unique natural environment and elegant campus culture, thus forming the school-running characteristics of aesthetic education and environmental education. In 2000, he passed the evaluation of campus civilization construction in Shandong Province with excellent results and won the honorary title of civilized campus. In 2003, in the evaluation of moral education in colleges and universities in Shandong Province, it was rated as an excellent unit of moral education; In the same year, it was awarded the honorary title of advanced unit of party style and clean government construction in Shandong Province. In 2004, the first aesthetic education research base in Shandong Province was established.
On the basis of summing up the development of the Tenth Five-Year Plan, the school has comprehensively formulated the outline of Yantai University's Eleventh Five-Year Plan, defined the guiding ideology, objectives, main tasks and strategic measures of the school's reform and development during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, and formed a basic development idea of centering on one main line, realizing two transformations, implementing three major projects, deepening four reforms, strengthening the school with quality, strengthening the school with science and technology, strengthening the school with talents, strengthening the school with characteristics and coordinating development. Determine the development goal of building Yantai University into a comprehensive teaching and research university that is at the forefront of the development of similar universities, has a certain reputation at home and abroad, and has the ability of sustainable development.
Guided by Deng Xiaoping Theory and Theory of Three Represents, the school conscientiously implements the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the Third, Fourth and Fifth Plenary Sessions of the 16th National Congress, adheres to the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, fully implements the strategic deployment of the provincial party committee and the provincial government of "going east to Yantai to build a manufacturing base in Jiaodong Peninsula", promotes the rise of Jiaodong urban agglomeration, and regards serving Yantai as an important part of the school-running concept and all-round open development strategy. Set up a leading group for foreign cooperation and local services of Yantai University, coordinate foreign cooperation and local services, actively explore new models and mechanisms, and give full play to the advantages of talent groups to serve regional economic construction; The school proposes to serve the construction of Yantai as a manufacturing city, an ecological city and a cultural city as a breakthrough point, closely focus on the key areas and industries of Yantai's economic and social development, give full play to the advantages of disciplines and talents, highlight knowledge innovation and management innovation, establish a coordination mechanism combining school with local economic development, and build a mutually beneficial and win-win development platform with government promotion, school-oriented, social participation and * * * development. Make Yantai University an important base for cultivating high-level innovative talents, transforming high-level scientific research achievements, consulting high-level decision-making and breeding and spreading advanced culture, and become an important highland for recruiting and gathering high-level talents in Yantai.