Luoyang Normal University

Luoyang Normal University is a provincial general undergraduate college located in Luoyang, the thousand-year-old imperial capital, the city of peonies, and the starting point of the Silk Road. The school is located on the bank of the Yi River and at the foot of Wan'an Mountain, where the Imperial College of the Eastern Han Dynasty originated. Looking south to the hometown of the two Cheng brothers, the stories of Chengmen Lixue and Lutai Wangdao are spread; looking west to Guanlin and the world cultural heritage Longmen Grottoes, the brilliant light of the world cultural heritage blooms.

The predecessor of the school was the Heluo Normal School founded in 1916. After going through the stages of Henan Provincial Heluo Normal School, Henan Provincial Fourth Normal School, Henan Provincial Luoyang Normal School, Luoyang Normal College, and Luoyang Normal College, it was upgraded to an undergraduate college in 2000 and was named as it is now. In 2007, the school passed the undergraduate teaching work level evaluation of the Ministry of Education with good results. In 2011, it was approved as a pilot unit for the training of master's degree students in education. In 2015, it was approved for part-time graduate student enrollment. In 2018, it passed the undergraduate teaching work review and evaluation of the Ministry of Education with excellent results, and won the reputation of "five-have" universities with "vibrant, tasteful, warm, beautiful, and potential". In 2020, the school was listed as a university with characteristic backbone disciplines in Henan Province. In recent years, the school has won the titles of National Advanced Collective for Poverty Alleviation, National Advanced Collective for Language and Writing Work, National May 4th Red Flag Youth League Committee, National Advanced Collective for Academic Degree Management of Higher Education, National Women's Civilization Post, Advanced Party Committee of Henan Universities, Model Civilized School of Henan Province, Model Civilized Unit of Henan Province, Model Civilized Campus of Henan Province, Advanced Unit of Ideological and Political Work of Henan Province, Advanced Unit of Graduate Employment of Ordinary Colleges and Universities of Henan Province, etc.

The school currently has 23 colleges including the School of Marxism, School of Literature, School of History and Culture, School of Law and Society, School of Foreign Languages, School of Mathematical Sciences, School of Physics and Electronic Information, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, School of Information Technology (Software Vocational and Technical College), School of Physical Education, School of Music, School of Fine Arts and Art Design, School of Educational Sciences, School of Life Sciences, School of Business, School of Preschool Education, School of Journalism and Communication, School of Land and Tourism, School of E-commerce, School of Food and Drugs, School of International Education, and School of Continuing Education, as well as 2 public teaching and research departments and 72 undergraduate majors, covering 10 major disciplines including literature, science, engineering, economics, management, law, history, education, art, and agriculture. The school currently has more than 28,000 full-time students and more than 10,000 adult education students of various types.

The school adheres to the student-centered school-running philosophy, implements the fundamental task of cultivating morality and cultivating people, strengthens the characteristics of teacher education, and comprehensively improves the quality of talent training. There are 1 national teaching achievement award, 6 national first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 1 talent training model innovation experimental zone, 2 characteristic majors, 3 quality courses, 1 off-campus practical teaching base for college students, and 1 national joint training demonstration base for master's degree students in education; 16 provincial characteristic majors and professional comprehensive reform pilot projects, 9 first-class undergraduate professional construction sites, 2 national first-class undergraduate courses, 38 provincial first-class undergraduate courses, 26 provincial quality online open courses, 11 provincial curriculum ideological and political projects, 6 teaching teams, 6 teaching masters, 14 virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, 20 excellent grassroots teaching organizations in colleges and universities, and 7 Henan Province graduate education innovation training bases; won 33 provincial higher education teaching achievement awards, 26 teacher education and teaching achievement awards, and 2 national outstanding master's degree papers in education. The "Luoyang Model" for recruiting and training general primary school teachers has been created and promoted throughout the province; it has won the first prize in the Henan Normal Student Teaching Skills Competition for nine consecutive years. In recent years, students have won 12 gold medals in various national college sports competitions, 19 gold medals in provincial college sports competitions, and more than 500 national awards and more than 1,300 provincial awards in various competitions such as the "Challenge Cup", mathematical modeling, and robot competitions.

The school vigorously implements the "talent-driven school" strategy and has formed a well-structured and high-quality teaching staff. There are more than 1,900 faculty and staff, including more than 600 senior professional titles and more than 500 doctoral degree personnel. More than 200 teachers have won various outstanding talent titles such as the National Hundred Thousand Talents Project, the State Council Special Allowance Experts, the National Excellent Teachers, the National Model Teachers, the Ministry of Education's New Century Excellent Talents, the Provincial Excellent Experts, the Provincial Academic and Technical Leaders, and the Provincial University Science and Technology Innovation Talents.

The school insists on taking discipline construction as the leader and actively implements the "discipline-led" strategy and applied scientific research projects. Since 2016, it has been continuously selected into the ESI database rankings, and the ESI ranking of chemistry has continued to remain in the top 1% of universities and research institutions worldwide. The tourism management discipline has been approved as a characteristic backbone discipline in Henan Province. There are currently 8 provincial key disciplines. More than 40 provincial and ministerial scientific research platforms have been approved, including the National and Regional Research Center of the Ministry of Education, the National Innovation Alliance of the Forestry and Grassland Administration, the Henan Collaborative Innovation Center for Smart Tourism in the Central Plains Economic Zone, the Henan Key Laboratory of Function-oriented Porous Materials, the Henan Tourism Public Service Big Data Industry Technology Research Institute, and the Henan Public Culture Research Center. In recent years, the university has presided over one national key research and development project and one national social science fund key project; presided over more than 110 national scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation, the Social Science Foundation, and the National Art Foundation, including one National Social Science Foundation rare and unique project, and the number of National Art Foundation projects has ranked first among universities in Henan Province for many years; presided over more than 300 scientific research projects at or above the provincial and ministerial level, such as the Ministry of Education's humanities and social science projects, Henan Province's science and technology plan projects, and Henan Province's social science planning projects; published more than 160 books; published more than 1,200 high-level papers, and obtained more than 340 national patents; won 34 scientific research awards at or above the provincial and ministerial levels.

The school implements an open school-running strategy, and has carried out multi-form and wide-ranging cooperation with universities such as the Belarusian State Normal University, the University of Akron in the United States, the Carlow Institute of Technology in Ireland, the City University of Malaysia, the University of Bialystok in Poland, and the Kyrgyz National University for Nationalities, and signed more than 30 foreign cooperation and exchange agreements. In 2005, the school joined the World Association of University Presidents.

The school covers an area of ​​2,850 mu and has a construction area of ​​nearly 745,000 square meters. The total value of fixed assets is about 1.48 billion yuan. The library has a collection of more than 2.56 million books, more than 11 million digital resources, more than 5,300 Chinese and foreign periodicals, 28 Chinese and foreign databases, and more than 27,000 special collections of various types. The school has a campus network of "10G backbone and 1G desktop" and is a digital campus demonstration school for higher education institutions in Henan Province.

In the future development, the school will be guided by Xi Jinping's new era of socialism with Chinese characteristics, conscientiously implement the spirit of the national and provincial education conferences, highlight the development of characteristics and connotation construction, take moral education as the foundation, quality improvement as the core, reform and innovation as the driving force, integration into the region and service to the local area as the orientation, comprehensively deepen reforms, adhere to the rule of law in school management, enhance comprehensive strength, and strive to build a distinctive local high-level normal university!

(Data as of March 2022)

School motto: Dedication and dedication, being a role model
Luoyang Normal University is a university with a good tradition of running schools and a cradle of teachers. Our school motto is: "Dedication and dedication, being a role model for others". The school motto is the goal of cultivating students and the direction of guiding careers. "Dedication" means being loyal to one's work and working diligently, which is a sacred sense of responsibility for the cause of education. "Dedication" means being selfless and loving the objects of education, which is the core of teacher ethics. "Being a role model for others" means teaching by words and deeds, and seeking the same goal from teachers and teachers. It is the rule of training students and the goal of cultivating students.

School spirit: Thick virtue and erudition, and aspiration and perseverance
"Thick virtue" comes from "The Book of Changes": "A gentleman carries things with thick virtue." It means to educate people and benefit things with deep virtue; "erudition" and "perseverance" come from "The Book of Rites·The Doctrine of the Mean" "Be erudite, ask questions, think carefully, and distinguish clearly" and "The Book of Rites·The Book of Learning" "Be erudite and endless, and practice tirelessly". Being virtuous and knowledgeable will lead to success in everything, and being determined and dedicated is the style of the world. Only when one is virtuous can one be motivated, and only when one is motivated can one be dedicated. The relationship between teachers and students is thus highlighted, and "teaching, imparting knowledge and solving doubts" is thus promoted. In summary, "being virtuous and knowledgeable, and being determined and dedicated" means to cultivate students' growth and success with lofty morals and profound knowledge, to practice what they have learned in a down-to-earth and unremitting manner, and to strive for the established goals and careers.

Teaching style: cultivating oneself with virtue and educating others with education
The advantage of educators lies in transforming people with virtue and seeking the highest good with virtue. The so-called "cultivating oneself, managing the family, governing the country, and pacifying the world" is based on cultivating oneself and seeking virtue; at the same time, one must be able to fully utilize one's profound knowledge, carefully organized teaching design, and exquisite and elegant teaching means and methods in the teaching process. If one teaches people with this, no one will fail to become a talent.

Study style: Study hard, think well, know, believe and be virtuous
Study hard, think well is the ideal state of learning. Study hard with the joy of learning as the foundation, take learning as the joy, let diligent study be internalized into the conscious pursuit of the depths of one's soul, and at the same time be good at thinking, let study hard and think well, only then can we truly achieve the ideal state of life of "know, believe and be virtuous", make what we have learned truly useful, and become useful talents for the development and progress of the nation.