Huanghuai University is public full-time undergraduate university with over 40 years history. It was merged in 2004 on the basis of three institutions: Zhumadian Teachers College, Central Plains Vocational Technical College, and Zhumadian Institute of Forestry. Huanghuai University has successively been awarded “Model Faculty of Higher Education Institutions” and “Model University for Students Satisfaction”.
The campus covers an area of 143 hectares and the construction area is 530,000 square meters with excellent modern teaching and living facilities. School teaching equipment assets equal 81 million RMB. The library catalogue surpasses 170 million books; Chinese and foreign periodicals accumulate over 2000 entries.
The School Network Center is the Zhumadian network contact center of Henan Province Education and Research Network, in which information covers the areas of teaching, research, and living and resulted in the formation of a modern, digital campus environment. Huanghuai University now has a National Major Construction, 3 provincial majors, 1 key provincial discipline, 4 joint training programs of master graduates, 6 university key disciplines, 8 colonel specialties，6 provincial experimental teaching demonstration center and Engineering technology center, 18 colonel institutes.
Huanghuai University has 17 departments, 45 undergraduate programs, and 16 specialties (directions) including: literature, management, economics, education, law, engineering, science, agriculture, medicine, art, science amongst other disciplines. There are 18 thousands full-time students and 13 thousands continuing education students. Over1100 faculty work in the university, including 240 professors and associate professors, about 550 staff with doctoral or master’s degree, and more than 60 experts that are back-bone teachers at provincial level. There are about 50 faculty from the other countries and about 60 renowned professors and experts from well-known universities or research institutions works as indispensible part of our whole faculty.
The academic research of the faculty is abundant and influential home and abroad. Over the last three years, Huanghuai University published 293 academic works; produced more than 2000 papers. There are 136 theses can be searched by SCI、EI and CPCI; completed a total of 163 national, provincial and ministerial scientific research, spread over 39 disciplinary issues; received 258 research awards in the city departmental level; and, filed 12 national patents. The university-sponsored ‘Tianzhong Journal’ was named ‘National Outstanding Science Journal’, and is listed on the ‘Top 100 National Social Science Journal”.
The motto of Huanghuai University “well-cultivated in morality, deep in learning, disciplined in conduct, unyielding in spirit” encourages the faculty to be dedicated to teaching responsibilities; focus on basic program building; and promote teaching and research work actively amongst students and local population. Since upgrading its undergraduate program through commitment to a total of 29 provincial and ministerial teaching reform projects, Huanghuai University received 18 provincial teaching achievements. Staff development reflects the people-oriented spirit held high at Huanghuai University.
Huanhguai university attaches great importance to the quality of education. The quality of the graduates from Huanghuai University should have the following features: capable in employed field, competent in enterprising, foundation-solid for further education, up-and-coming for further development. Huanghuai University relies on the Cooperation and Development Alliance, regards the second classroom practice teaching as the carrier, through the platform of internal and external practice base, promotes the “Combination” mode reform of training vigorously, highlights the students’ practical ability and personality development and promotes the students’ employment. Amongst various critical acclaim, Huanghuai University has been referred to as having “An advanced unit of social practice for students in Henan Province”, “An advance group of undergraduates’ employment in Henan province”, “Students backbone of primary attachment training mission” by the five student organizations have been named the national outstanding teams.
Huanghuai University adheres to service the local area and its regional economy. Also social and cultural undertakings are conducted to make an interactive development with the purpose of “cooperation, development, and synergy”. School- enterprise cooperation is in place with 150 large and medium-sized enterprises to offer field training. Meanwhile, Huanghuai University attaches importance to, and actively carries out, international exchange and cooperation endeavours to accelerate the degree of internationalization, through signed agreements with eight well-known universities in the United Kingdom, India, Australia and 4 additional universities in Taiwan, under the header “NAU personnel training program”. Through these cooperative education programs, nearly 600 students are now studying abroad. Huanghuai University has formed a general undergraduate education as the main, and formed a general and cooperative education in “local, application, open, international” educational structure.
With these significant accomplishments, followed the spirit of The Second Party Congress and the five strategic orientations of “improving quality, training talents, grouping specialties, developing projects, opening and cooperating”, Huanghuai University strengthens the connotation construction, strongly promotes the school transformation, aiming at a modern university with distinctive features.作者: sowang 时间: 2012-7-16 01:58
