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Hunan University of Arts and Science is a full-time general undergraduate college sponsored by the Hunan Provincial People's Government. The school is located in the National Civilized City, International Wetland City, National Sanitation City, China's Excellent Tourist City, "City in the Peach Blossom Spring"-Changde City, Hunan Province.
The school began as Changde Teachers College, founded in 1958. In 1999, the former Changde Teachers College and the former Changde College merged to form Changde Teachers College, which was upgraded to an undergraduate college. In 2003, it became its current name. The Changde Branch of Hunan Agricultural College, Changde Education College, Changde Urban and Rural Construction Vocational Technical School, and Changde Art School have their respective disciplines and professional advantages. Up to now, they have 62 years of history of higher education. In 2016, the school was identified as a national "production-education integration engineering application-oriented undergraduate planning university", in 2017 it was identified as a new master's degree granting project construction unit, and in 2018 it was confirmed as a "double first-class" high-level application characteristic college in Hunan Province. In 2018, it passed the review and evaluation of the undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education at a high level. It is a "National Model Worker's Home", "Hunan Province Civilized Model Unit", "Provincial Garden Unit", "Hunan Province Safe College", and "Hunan Province Modern University System Construction Advanced" Universities". Starting in 2020, the school will be transferred to a group of undergraduate admission colleges in Hunan Province.
The school campus has a beautiful environment, covering an area of 1995.59 mu, with a total school building area of more than 615,000 square meters, a teaching area of more than 284,000 square meters, and a laboratory area of more than 169,000 square meters. It has sufficient teaching and research equipment and books and documents. At present, the total value of teaching and research equipment is 338 million yuan. The library has more than 2.4 million paper books and more than 2.1 million electronic books.
The school has a complete range of disciplines, covering ten disciplines of liberal arts, sciences, engineering, agriculture, history, law, economics, management, teaching, and arts. There are 16 teaching colleges, 1 independent college, and 65 undergraduate majors (including 2 Chinese-foreign cooperation in running schools). The school recruits students from 31 provinces (municipalities, autonomous regions) across the country, and currently has more than 24,000 full-time undergraduate students.
The school has a strong faculty. There are 1465 faculty members, including 1,100 full-time teachers, 139 professors, and 343 Ph.Ds. The ratio is 12.64%, and the ratio of doctors is 31.18%. Both the ratio of heights and the ratio of doctors rank among similar institutions in the province. Forefront. There are more than 120 national, provincial and ministerial talent project candidates including national outstanding young people, national science and technology entrepreneurship leaders in the National Ten Thousand Talents Program, New Century Excellent Talent Support Program candidates of the Ministry of Education, and Hunan Province 121 Innovative Talent Project candidates; There are 1 teaching team at the provincial level, 8 teaching and scientific research teams at the provincial level, and 1 deputy director of the State Education Commission.
The school’s teaching reform has continued to deepen. In the past five years, it has successively won more than 150 teaching research and teaching reform projects above the provincial level, and 18 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 2 first prizes and 5 second prizes. The teaching level of teachers has been greatly improved. In the past five years, it has won 33 teaching competition awards at or above the provincial level, including 8 provincial first prizes, 12 second prizes, and 13 third prizes.
The school's professional curriculum construction has achieved remarkable results. Now it has established 7 national first-class undergraduate majors including Chinese language and literature, geographical sciences, national characteristic majors, national comprehensive reform pilot majors and other "national" majors, as well as biological sciences, preschool education, and materials There are more than 30 provincial top-ranking undergraduate majors in science and engineering, provincial characteristic majors and other "provincial" branded majors. More than 300 high-quality courses have been established, including one national high-quality course, one national high-quality resource sharing course, 14 provincial-level high-quality courses, and 41 provincial-level high-quality online open courses and other “provincial” courses.
The school’s teaching and scientific research platform base is sufficient, and it has been independently approved by the National University Student Cultural Education Base, the National Linux Technology Training and Promotion Center, the National School-Enterprise Cooperation Talent Training Base, the National Meteorological Science Education Base, and the Aquatic Postdoctoral Research Workstation. The scientific research platform has two provincial-level “2011” collaborative innovation centers, “Construction and Development of Dongting Lake Ecological Economic Zone” and “Efficient and Healthy Production of Aquatic Products”, and five provincial-level key laboratories, including “Molecular Immunization Technology for Important Aquatic Animal Diseases”, 4 provincial engineering research centers including "Aquatic Bioresources and Environmental Ecology", 7 provincial social science research bases including "Regional Development around Dongting Lake", as well as aquatic post-doctoral research mobile station collaborative R&D center, intellectual property center, innovation and entrepreneurship education There are nearly 100 other provincial and ministerial teaching and scientific research platforms such as centers and provincial demonstration laboratories.
Adhering to the tenet of "Scientific Research Promotes Teaching", the scientific research level has been significantly enhanced. In the past five years, it has undertaken more than 100 national-level scientific research projects including major commissioned projects of the National Social Science Fund and key projects of the Spark Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology. The school's scientific research funding has grown rapidly, with a total funding of more than 500 million yuan, and the average annual research funding of teachers has reached 81,000 yuan. He has published more than 4,000 scientific research papers, including nearly 1,100 papers collected by SCI, SSCI, EI, CSSCI, and CSCD; successively published more than 300 academic works, of which 105 were published by national publishing houses. Has successively won 28 provincial and ministerial level and above various scientific and technological achievement awards, including 1 international platinum award and 2 provincial and ministerial first prizes; 276 authorized invention patents, more than 1,000 utility models and design rights, and software production rights , Develop 12 standards.
The employment of school graduates is distinctive and has outstanding achievements. In recent years, the initial employment rate of graduates has always been among the highest among similar universities in Hunan Province. The school has been awarded by the Ministry of Education as "National Advanced Unit for Research and Practice of Entrepreneurship Education in Higher Education Institutions", "National Colleges with Typical Employment Experience for Graduates", and "National Deepening of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education". "Reform characteristic universities with typical experience", and was awarded the title of "Hunan Province University Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Demonstration School" by the Hunan Provincial Department of Education. The school's application-oriented personnel training reform experience "Hunan College of Arts and Sciences: Cultivating Applied Talents for Market Demand" was selected into the "Education System Reform Briefing" edited by the National Education System Reform Leading Group, and it was upgraded to national experience.
The school’s internationalization level and international influence continue to improve, and it has established friendly cooperative relations with more than 60 universities in more than 20 countries and regions along the United States, Britain, Germany, Japan, Australia and the “Belt and Road”, among which the world’s top 500 There are 11 colleges and universities, and foreign-related education projects are among the best in the province.
The school insists on school-local school-enterprise cooperation to promote local economic and social development. The school gives full play to the advantages of discipline resources, selects high-level doctors as "science and innovation assistants" and sends them to 20 municipal departments to serve government decision-making; selects more than 300 professors and doctors to form 29 expert teams to start the "Professor, Doctor, Yuanli Xing" activity for More than 200 local companies delivered technology and services to their doorsteps, creating a new model for colleges and universities to serve local areas. It has successively signed strategic cooperation agreements with the people's governments of various counties and districts in Changde City to carry out comprehensive and in-depth cooperation. Focusing closely on local pillar industries and emerging industries such as machinery manufacturing, new energy and new materials, it has successively carried out extensive cooperation with more than 500 companies including CRRC Automobile Group, has accepted more than 900 commissioned projects, and has invested more than 300 million yuan in research and development funds. Solved many technical problems of the enterprise.
After sixty-three years of development, the school has condensed the school motto of "Being knowledgeable and clear-cut, seeking truth from reason", and formed the school spirit of "Being good, knowing and doing, loving the country, loving the school and loving people". At present, the school is moving steadily towards the goal of building a first-class domestic application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.