[School Overview] Hubei University of Arts and Science is a provincial full-time general undergraduate institution of higher learning. It is located in Xiangyang, a national historical and cultural city and a sub-central city of Hubei Province. It is located in Gulongzhong, the former residence of Zhuge Liang, the incarnation of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. The campus is three countries. Historical and cultural landscape and natural landscape complement each other. The school’s history can be traced back to the Xiangyang Teachers College, founded in 1958; from 1966 to 1978, the Xiangyang branch of Wuhan University was established here; in March 1998, Xiangyang Teachers College, Xiangfan Vocational University, and Xiangfan Education College merged and formed Xiangfan College; In July 2000, Hubei Arts and Crafts School was incorporated as a whole; in February 2012, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the school was renamed Hubei College of Arts and Sciences. It is a university jointly established by the central and local governments, an excellent school for undergraduate teaching work evaluation by the Ministry of Education, an advanced collective for graduate employment of ordinary colleges and universities in the country, and a national KAB entrepreneurship education base.
【School Thinking】 Adhere to a comprehensive, local, and application-oriented school orientation, adhere to the service orientation of being rooted in Xiangyang, based in Hubei, and facing the whole country, and adhere to the school characteristics of deep integration with regional economic, social and cultural development. Adhere to the main line of business development with connotation construction, strength enhancement, and distinctive features, and vigorously promote the development strategies of building schools by quality, building schools by disciplines, strengthening schools with talents, serving localities, and opening schools, and strive to build high-level application-oriented comprehensiveness with distinctive local characteristics University. Adhering to the fundamental task of cultivating people with morality, we are committed to cultivating high-level applied professionals with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, art, and labor, with a sense of social responsibility, practical ability and innovative spirit.
[Talent training] There are 55 undergraduate majors, covering 9 university disciplines including economics, law, education, literature, science, engineering, medicine, management, and art. There are more than 15,000 full-time general undergraduate students. There are 2 national-level characteristic majors, 1 national-level comprehensive professional reform pilot major, 4 provincial-level brand majors; 14 provincial-level professional comprehensive reform pilots and other professional "undergraduate teaching engineering" projects; provincial-level boutique online open courses 10 courses; 9 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers and other practical teaching platforms. Continuously deepening the reform of talent training, the characteristics of collaborative training of talents with deep integration of schools and enterprises (local), organic integration of science and education, and full-staff collaboration have become increasingly prominent, and won the first prize of Hubei Province Excellent Teaching Achievement. Student adult education and innovation and entrepreneurship education have gradually become special features, and they have won nearly 300 awards in academic competitions at the provincial level and above each year. In 2018, it was approved by the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council as a new master's degree granting unit, with master's degree authorization points in social work, journalism and communication, and mechanical engineering.
[Disciplinary research] There are 1 provincial-level advantageous characteristic disciplines, 5 provincial-level key disciplines, 15 provincial-level key laboratories, collaborative innovation centers, humanities and social sciences research bases, engineering technology research centers and other discipline platforms, high-level science and technology There are 8 innovation teams, 3 provincial postgraduate workstations, and 1 provincial postgraduate education innovation base. The affiliated hospital (Xiangyang Central Hospital), as a provincial-level regional medical center, strongly supports the rapid development of medical disciplines. In recent years, the school has won 64 projects from the National Natural Science Foundation and Social Science Foundation, more than 210 provincial and ministerial projects, and 42 provincial and ministerial scientific research awards. The annual research funding exceeds 50 million yuan; the number of authorized patents ranks among the top ten universities in the province.
[Teachers] The school has 18 secondary colleges, with 1524 faculty members and 964 full-time teachers; including 118 professors, 303 associate professors, 269 doctoral degree teachers, and 524 master's degree teachers; there are national, There are more than 30 provincial and other high-level talents. There are more than 180 part-time master tutors hired by Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Normal University, Hubei University and other universities and full-time master tutors hired by our school. We hired Duan Zhengcheng, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and Feng Tianyu, a famous historical and cultural scientist. There are 150 professors and a group of young and middle-aged experts who enjoy special allowances from the State Council and the provincial government.
[Campus Culture] Vigorously promote the school motto of “Being indifferent and clear-minded, peaceful and far-reaching” and the fine tradition of “Dare to be the first and willing to contribute”, and further promote the construction of civilized campus, scholarly campus, science and technology campus, art campus, and sports campus. "Go to university where Zhuge Liang studies", "Go to study like Zhuge Liang", "A new generation of Wolong comes out of the mountain" and other special language departments inspire young students to study, explore and grow. The "Longzhong Zhuge Reading Project" and "Weekend Volunteer Service" activities have had a wide range of social impacts and won the National Campus Cultural Construction Outstanding Achievement Award; the "Gesanghua" support education activities in Tibet have been reported by CCTV, Xinhua News Agency and other mainstream media. The university system is the only one selected in the first batch of 50 national demonstration sites for learning from Lei Feng.
【Open School】Insist on symbiosis and co-prosperity with the locality, and deeply integrate into the local economic and social development. The school has established a close school-local cooperation relationship with Xiangyang City and the counties (cities, districts) under its jurisdiction, and various cooperative projects are effectively implemented. Advanced Manufacturing Engineering Research Institute, Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center, Provincial Key Laboratory, University Science Park and other scientific and technological innovation and achievement transformation have achieved remarkable results, actively promoting the transformation and upgrading of local industries. Established counterpart support cooperation relationships with many domestic key universities and scientific research institutes such as Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Huazhong Agricultural University, Yangtze River Survey, Planning and Design Institute, and established inter-school exchanges with more than 10 universities in the United States, Canada, Australia and other countries Cooperation relationship, each year students are selected to exchange and study at world-renowned universities such as Harvard and Cambridge. The scale of Sino-foreign cooperation in running schools and the education of international students has steadily expanded, and it has become the norm for teachers and students to go abroad for training and study tours.
[Development goals] At present, inspired by the Chinese dream of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation, the people of Hubei College of Arts and Sciences are rushing to grasp the major development strategy of Hubei Province to "build a pivot and walk in the forefront", "one master, two vices and multiple poles" and Xiangyang's "one pole" The important historical opportunity of the "two centers" is to invigorate the spirit, take responsibility, roll up sleeves and work hard, and strive to enhance the school's comprehensive school-running strength, and make strides towards the grand goal of building a high-level applied comprehensive university with distinctive local characteristics.