Hubei Normal University is a provincial comprehensive undergraduate normal university with the right to confer master's degrees. In 2, it passed the national undergraduate teaching qualification assessment. The university is located in Huangshi City, the second largest open city along the Yangtze River in Hubei Province, and was formerly known as Huangshi Branch of Huazhong Normal University (now Huazhong Normal University). It was established in 1973. In 1977, it began to recruit undergraduates, and it was one of the first batch of bachelor's degree awarding units after the resumption of college entrance examination. Approved by the State Council in 1978, it was renamed Huangshi Teachers College. In 1985, the Hubei Provincial People's Government decided that the college was renamed Hubei Normal University. The campus covers an area of more than 2, mu, with a total construction area of nearly 4, square meters. The campus is full of lush trees and rippling blue waves, making it an ideal place to study and study.
The school has 17 teaching departments (departments) and 2 secondary colleges, 4 master's degree authorized disciplines, 35 undergraduate majors and 17 higher vocational (junior college) majors, with more than 13, full-time undergraduate students. The university has a history of more than 3 years of undergraduate education and has the right to award master's degrees. The school has a strong faculty and a reasonable faculty structure. There are 667 full-time teachers, including 81 professors and 215 associate professors. There are 14 doctors (including those studying) and 156 masters. Among the teachers are distinguished professor, a scholar from Chutian, a famous teacher from Hubei, 8 people enjoying the special allowance from the State Council and 5 people enjoying the special allowance from the provincial government, 5 young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from Hubei Province, 7 winners of Ceng Xianzi Education Fund Award, 7 provincial cross-century academic leaders, 8 provincial cross-century academic backbones, and 7 selected high-level talents from Hubei Province in the new century.
The school has selected a number of tutors for postgraduate students, and 41 teachers have been employed as doctoral or postgraduate tutors by Huazhong Normal University and Hubei University. In the past five years, the school has presided over 585 scientific research projects, published 116 academic monographs and 3,51 papers, of which 149 were included in SCI, 5 in EI, and 121 were reprinted by Xinhua Digest and materials copied by NPC. Scientific research achievements won 6 provincial and ministerial awards, 95 other scientific research awards, 1 invention patent, 9 scientific research achievements were transferred, 12 scientific research achievements were adopted, and the direct economic benefits were more than 6 million yuan.
The school has built the Hubei Key Laboratory of Biochemical Analysis Technology and the provincial demonstration experiment center of basic experiment of electronic and electrical engineering, and has built two provincial-level brand majors of China, five provincial-level key disciplines of linguistics, literature and arts, applied mathematics, optics and analytical chemistry, four provincial-level innovative teams of optics, three provincial-level excellent courses and eight provincial-level high-quality courses, and two first-class and 2 second-class master's degree programs. The total value of instruments and equipment used for teaching and scientific research in the school is more than 67 million yuan, and the fixed assets are more than 5 million yuan.
The library covers an area of 14,9 square meters, with a collection of 96, books, more than 3,5 Chinese and foreign periodicals, 2, electronic books and more than 3,5 Chinese and foreign periodicals. There are 152 copies of Taiwan Province Wenyuange Edition Siku Quanshu and its electronic version, more than 2, books of ancient books, a complete set of encyclopedias in China, and more than 1 kinds of out-of-print or full-page newspapers starting from the inaugural issue of Shenbao, Republic of China Daily and People's Daily. Since 1994, it has been running an online retrieval and query system for the collection of books and materials database, with an electronic reading room and an audio-visual reference room, which is an excellent library at the provincial level.
The school has a computer center, an audio-visual education center, a modern information technology center, a psychological counseling center for college students, a multi-functional academic lecture hall, a microcomputer teaching system, a CAI courseware making room, a computer painting and nonlinear editing and animation making room, etc. The school opened the campus network and was awarded the node unit of China Education and Scientific Research City (Huangshi). The campus network (Gigabit Ethernet) is connected to China Education and Scientific Research Network through the Central China Regional Network Center, which belongs to one of the 38 city nodes in China. Journal of Hubei Normal University (Philosophy and Social Sciences Edition) is a national Chinese core periodical.
Learning to be a teacher, being a model, taking health as the foundation and innovation as the soul. In recent years, the first choice rate of applying for Hubei Normal University is above 8%, and the one-time employment rate is above 9%. Since the school was founded more than 3 years ago, * * * has delivered 5, graduates of various types for social training, which are distributed in more than 2 provinces and cities across the country. The good quality of graduates has been well received and recognized by employers. In the new century, based on Hubei and facing the whole country, the school has implemented three strategies: establishing the school with quality, strengthening the school with talents and developing the school with characteristics, and has worked hard to build the school into a multi-disciplinary and powerful Hubei Normal University with teacher education characteristics.