Changshu Institute of Technology is a public full-time general undergraduate college in Jiangsu Province. The school was established in 1958 (Suzhou Teachers College), and was upgraded in 2004 with the approval of the Ministry of Education. The school is a "National Education System Reform" pilot project university, the national "13th Five-Year" applied undergraduate industry-education integration development project construction university, the Ministry of Education "Excellent Engineer Education and Training Program" pilot university, and the first provincial and municipal joint construction in Jiangsu Province Provincial undergraduate colleges and universities have so far trained more than 100,000 talents of various types for the country and society. The school is located in Changshu, Suzhou, a famous national historical and cultural city and an international garden city, which is rich in humanities and beautiful scenery. It has two campuses, East Lake and Southeast.
In the course of running a school for more than half a century, Changshu Institute of Technology has been infiltrated by the Wu culture. After several generations of hard work, it has formed the school motto of "seeking truth from the foundation and making progress with each passing day." The campus spirit of forging ahead and daring to surpass has established the development strategy of “establishing quality schools, distinguished schools with special characteristics, strengthening schools with talents, promoting schools through culture, and opening and living schools”, and condenses the talent training concept of “focusing on general knowledge and integrating into the industry”. It has embarked on a development path with its own characteristics. The school adheres to the school-running ideas of school-local interactive development and school-enterprise cooperation, focusing on local economic and social development, focusing on cultivating high-quality applied talents, continuously improving the level of scientific research and scientific and technological services, and forming a school with science and engineering as the mainstay and coordinated development of multiple disciplines. pattern.
The school covers an area of more than 1,800 acres, with a building area of more than 600,000 square meters, and the total assets of teaching equipment and equipment are nearly 320 million yuan. The library has more than 1.68 million volumes of paper documents, 31 databases, and 31 TB of digital information resources. The school runs two academic journals: "Soochow Academic" (Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences Core Journal, CSSCI Source <Expanded Edition> Journal) and "Journal of Changshu Institute of Technology" (National Excellent Journal of Colleges and Universities).
The school now has 14 secondary colleges (departments) and 54 undergraduate majors, covering 7 university disciplines including engineering, science, literature, economics, management, education, and art, and recruits students from 21 provinces across the country. There are more than 20,000 regular full-time undergraduate students, more than 100 full-time postgraduates have been jointly trained, and more than 4,700 full-time graduate students are enrolled in the College of Continuing Education.
There are more than 1,250 faculty members in the school, including more than 1,000 full-time teachers, more than 550 senior titles, and more than 380 doctors. There are more than 160 people including special government allowances from the State Council, young and middle-aged experts with outstanding contributions from the province, provincial "333 Project", "Blue Project", "Six Talent Peaks" training candidates, 4 national-level teaching teachers, provincial-level teaching teachers, There are 5 provincial scientific and technological innovation teams and 3 provincial excellent teaching teams.
With the goal of "building a first-class undergraduate major and running a first-class undergraduate education", adhere to the guiding ideology of "strengthening connotation, establishing brand, and cultivating characteristics" to strengthen the construction of professional connotation. Guided by brand professional construction, professional certification as the starting point, and reform and innovation of diversified talent training models as the core, we will effectively improve the quality of application-oriented talent training. Since upgrading, he has undertaken 4 national teaching reform projects, more than 30 provincial and ministerial teaching reform projects, and more than 150 national college students' practical innovation training programs. It has 2 special professional construction sites with national-level colleges and universities, 2 majors certified by the Ministry of Education for Engineering Education, 4 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education Excellence Program, 2 pilot majors of the Ministry of Education undergraduate comprehensive reform, 2 provincial-level university brand major construction Engineering projects, 6 provincial key majors (categories), 1 national engineering practice education center, 1 national off-campus engineering practice education base for university students, and 11 provincial experimental teaching and practice education centers. The school was approved as "Jiangsu Province University Student Entrepreneurship Demonstration Base". Graduates are generally recognized by the society.
The school takes the initiative to adapt to the needs of local economic society and the development of industry enterprises, and strengthens the construction of subject infrastructure and scientific research. There are 5 provincial-level key construction first-level disciplines, 3 provincial-level key construction laboratories, 1 provincial-level engineering center, 1 provincial-level joint technology transfer center, and 1 off-campus research base for humanities and social sciences in provincial universities. Co-build a national university science and technology park.
The school insists on serving the local area, actively deepening the integration of industry and education, interacting with regional economic and social undertakings, building industry colleges, exploring interdisciplinary and multi-professional compound application-oriented talent training models, and industry colleges’ talent training model reforms have obvious characteristics. Established the country's first elevator engineering college, the province's first photovoltaic technology college, and textile and apparel engineering colleges, automotive engineering colleges and other industry colleges.
The school actively develops international exchanges and cooperation. In recent years, experts and scholars have been sent to the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Israel, India and other countries for exchanges or further studies, and hundreds of foreign teachers have been hired. More than 80 colleges and universities in 21 countries including Ireland, Serbia, Czech Republic, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan have established friendly relations with the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, France, New Zealand, Canada, More than 50 universities in India, Italy, South Korea, Japan and other countries have cooperated in personnel training. The school has a test center for the Chinese Language Proficiency Test (HSK) for Foreigners of Hanban.
The school has always attached importance to the construction of school spirit and style of study, and the quality education of students. It was listed as the first batch of provincial colleges and universities to meet the standards and was named "Suzhou Civilized Unit". Since 1997, it has been continuously named "Jiangsu Province Civilized School" and "Jiangsu Province". "Provincial Civilized Unit", won the "Jiangsu Province Colleges and Universities Harmonious Campus", "Jiangsu Province Safe Campus", "Jiangsu Province Teacher Team Construction Advanced University", "Jiangsu Province College Graduate Employment Work Advanced Collective", "Jiangsu Province College Graduates Employment Work Advanced Group", "Jiangsu Province Colleges and Universities Advanced Ideological and Political Education Work" "Collective", "Advanced Unit for Educational Publicity in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Unit for Legal Publicity and Education in the Educational System of the Province", "Advanced Group for Education and Research in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced School for Sports Work in Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Collective for University Libraries in Jiangsu Province", "Jiangsu Province" "Advanced Collective of Archives Work in Colleges and Universities", "Advanced Unit of Foreign Expert Management of Jiangsu Province", "Advanced Group of Jiangsu Education System Concerning Next Generation Work", "Advanced Collective of Provincial Education System Audit Work", "Advanced Unit of Jiangsu Education Infrastructure Construction Society" Provincial Poverty Alleviation and Development Work Advanced Unit", "Jiangsu Province Model Workers' Home", "Jiangsu Province Communist Youth League Work Advanced Unit", "Jiangsu Province's First Batch of University Constitution Approval Units" and other honorary titles. The school party committee was commended as "Jiangsu Province Colleges and Universities Create the First to Strive for Priority to Enter the Collective".
Looking forward to the future, Changshu Institute of Technology will focus on "doing a good application-oriented university" and "cultivating application-oriented talents", with "building a brand university and serving regional development" as its action plan, adhere to the leadership of the party, adhere to the rule of law, and adhere to Deepen reform, adhere to characteristic development, comprehensively strengthen party building, comprehensively strengthen connotation construction, comprehensively promote reform and innovation, comprehensively promote career development, and strive to build an applied brand university with distinctive characteristics and famous quality at an early date!