Changzhi University

Changzhi College was founded in 1958 and was formerly known as Southeast Shanxi Normal College. At that time, as the only higher normal college in Southeast Shanxi, it provided the first batch of self-cultivated higher-level teaching talents for Shangdang. In 2004, it was upgraded to a comprehensive full-time general undergraduate college, and in 2019 it was approved to become a master's degree granting project construction unit. It has won the titles of "Advanced School for Creating National Civilized Campus", "Civilized Campus of Shanxi Province", "Advanced Unit for Undergraduate Teaching", "Safe Campus of Shanxi Province", "Advanced Unit for Recruitment of Colleges and Universities in Shanxi Province", etc. It is the first batch of "Three-dimensional Education" comprehensive reform pilot units in Shanxi Province. At present, the school is focusing on building a "high-level applied undergraduate college with regional representativeness".

Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, where Changzhi College is located, is the birthplace of Taihang Spirit. For a long time, the school has been rooted in this red land, inheriting and promoting the Taihang spirit, continuing the red spiritual bloodline, forming the school motto of "seeking truth, seeking reality, seeking goodness and seeking beauty", and cultivating a large number of outstanding talents rooted in the grassroots, such as Huang Wenxiu, the winner of the "July 1st Medal" and the "Model of the Times".

At present, the school has nearly 14,000 full-time undergraduate students, and the students come from 20 provinces (autonomous regions) across the country. There are 944 faculty members and 700 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 43 professors, 195 associate professors, and 20 other associate senior professional titles. There are 157 teachers with doctoral degrees and 532 teachers with master's degrees. There are more than 50 national outstanding teachers, "Sanjin Talents", provincial young top talents, model teachers, teaching masters, subject leaders, middle-aged and young backbone teachers, excellent teachers, model teachers and good teachers, and more than 70 well-known experts and scholars from inside and outside the province have been hired as part-time professors and visiting professors.

The school has 14 teaching departments, including the Chinese Department, the School of Marxism (preparatory), the History and Tourism Management Department, the Law and Economics Department, the Foreign Languages ​​Department, the Education Department, the Music and Dance Department, the Physical Education Department, the Fine Arts Department, the Mathematics Department, the Physics Department, the Chemistry Department, the Life Science Department, and the Computer Department; there are 41 undergraduate majors, covering ten disciplines including literature, science, engineering, law, economics, education, history, art, management, and medicine. There are 14 scientific research institutions including the Taihang Cultural Ecology Research Institute, the Zhao Shuli Research Institute, the Colored Sculpture and Mural Research Institute, the Chorus Art Research Institute, and the Silk Road Civilization Research Center.

The school has 1 national characteristic specialty construction site, 1 Ministry of Education comprehensive reform pilot specialty, 1 Ministry of Education curriculum reform pilot specialty, 4 provincial characteristic specialties, 7 provincial first-class specialty construction sites, 2 provincial higher education advantage and characteristic specialties, 5 provincial key support disciplines, 1 "1331 Project" advantage and characteristic discipline, 2 provincial higher education talent training model innovation experimental zones, 7 provincial higher education basic course experimental teaching demonstration centers, 4 provincial quality resource sharing courses, 13 provincial first-class courses, 2 excellent teaching teams, provincial key research base for humanities and social sciences (Taihang Ecological Culture Research Institute), "1331 Project" Collaborative Innovation Center, "1331 Project" Engineering (Technology) Research Center, "1331 Project" Youth Innovation Team Project, "1331 Project" Key Innovation Team (cultivation), key laboratory of higher education institutions, and 1 service industry innovation discipline group cultivation project. Since 2016, teachers of the school have undertaken 13 natural science fund projects, 5 national social science fund projects, 4 humanities and social science fund projects of the Ministry of Education; 196 provincial fund projects; 97 horizontal projects. Among them, in 2020, 1 special project of ideological and political education of the National Social Science Fund was obtained (only 2 projects were approved in the province), 1 special project of humanities and social science counselors of the Ministry of Education was obtained in 2021 (only 3 projects were approved in the province), and 1 general project of the National Art Fund was obtained (only 2 projects were approved in the province)

The school currently has 201 teaching experiments and training rooms, 119 multimedia classrooms, 6 dance rehearsal halls, and 118 professional piano rooms. The school has a standardized sports field, a sports training hall, a multi-functional experimental theater, and a digital piano classroom with terminal display. The school library has a collection of 1.229 million paper documents, more than 1.54 million electronic books, and 14 Chinese and foreign electronic databases. In order to further promote cultural education, the school vigorously promotes the construction of "three museums", including the animal and plant specimen museum, which collects more than 13,000 animal specimens and more than 10,000 plant specimens; the Shangdang Cultural Relics Exhibition Hall has more than 3,200 precious cultural relics in the Shangdang area; the school history museum vividly shows the spirit and development process of several generations of Changzhi College people who have been based on the land of Shangdang, working hard and striving for progress with more than 1,000 pictures, objects and audio-visual materials.

The school actively carries out foreign exchanges and cooperative education, and has signed cooperation and exchange agreements with 21 foreign universities such as Japan's Sakuyang University, Australian Education Alliance, and California State University, Stanilaus. A total of more than 110 teachers and students were sent. Invite 9 overseas senior foreign experts from the United States, Canada, South Korea and other countries and regions to our school for academic lectures and short-term courses.

Looking into the future, the school will follow the "1136" strategy deployed by the Third Party Congress, adhere to the fundamental principle of cultivating morality and cultivating talents, take application-oriented construction as the main line, build a discipline and professional structure with outstanding advantages, distinctive characteristics and coordinated development, and strive to build a high-level application-oriented undergraduate college with regional representativeness as soon as possible.

[Provided by the President's Office, data as of March 2022]