Texas College

Dezhou College is a full-time comprehensive general undergraduate college directly under the Shandong Provincial Government. Over the past 40 years since the establishment of the school, the school has rooted in the fertile soil of Qilu and Yanzhao cultures, absorbed the charm of the Yellow River culture and the canal culture, adhering to the spirit of hard work and inspirational education, and constantly writing new chapters in teaching, educating, and innovative development.

  Location Advantage

　　The school is located in Dezhou City, which is known as the "Gateway of Shenjing" and "Nine-reaching Tianqu" and is included in the national Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development strategy. Dezhou has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There are historical and cultural relics such as Dayu Water Control, Dongzi Reading Station, Liu Bei acting as Pingyuan County, Ming and Qing Canal Old Road, Sulu King Tomb, etc. Dong Zhongshu, Dongfang Shuo, and Mi Heng have emerged. , Dou Jiande, Yan Zhenqing, Xing Tong, Ren Jiyu and many other historical and cultural celebrities. Dezhou is the main transportation hub of the country. The opening of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed rail and other lines will fully integrate Dezhou into the capital's one-hour living circle and the provincial capital half-hour living circle. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project will replay an important role in the ancient canal. The “Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinative Development Plan” officially issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council clearly stated that “support Shandong Dezhou in the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industry undertaking, the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, the supply of high-quality agricultural products, the labor transportation base and the important ecological function zone in southern Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei ". Dezhou, as the only city in Shandong Province to be included in the planning, has formally established the strategic position of "One District and Four Bases". Dezhou has "China Sun City", "Chinese Functional Sugar City", "China Central Air-Conditioning City", "China Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs City", "China Auto Parts Industry City", "China Excellent Tourism City", "National Sanitary City" Named as "National High-tech Industrial Base for Biological Industry", "National Torch Plan New Energy Industry Base" and "National Renewable Energy Building Application Demonstration Cities", "One Ring, One Belt, One District" covers all or part of Texas The city undertakes 52 national and provincial reform pilot tasks such as the national new-type urbanization pilot project and modern agricultural demonstration zone. The abundant regional resources provide a broad space for the development of higher education.

　　History

　　The school was founded in 1971 and has gone through three periods: Dezhou Teachers College, Dezhou College, and Dezhou College. In May 1971, Dezhou Teachers Technical College was born during the "Cultural Revolution". It has gone through the difficult steps of its journey, and has continued to grow and develop amidst standards and transcendence. In March 1997, Dezhou Teachers College, Dezhou College of Education, and Dezhou Straight Amateur University merged to run a school to form Dezhou Higher Technical College, which opened the way for comprehensive education. Since 1999, it has successively merged into 5 vocational colleges, and the application-oriented school-running characteristics have become more prominent. In March 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the establishment of the undergraduate-level Texas College marked a historic leap from a general college to a comprehensive general undergraduate university and became an important milestone in the history of the development of higher education in Texas. In November 2006, it was among the first batch of similar colleges and universities in the country and the province's first to pass the evaluation of the undergraduate teaching level of the Ministry of Education. In September 2009, it was approved as the first batch of joint training bases for graduate students in Shandong Province by the Shandong Provincial Department of Education and the Academic Degree Committee of the Provincial People's Government. Passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education in 2016. In 2017, it was approved as the first batch of joint training bases for postgraduate education in Shandong Province during the 13th Five-Year Plan period, and was identified by the Shandong Provincial People's Government Academic Degree Committee as a master's degree granting project construction unit in Shandong Province.

　　 Positioning and Features

The school adheres to the socialist direction of running a school, adheres to the law of running a school, combines the development of the service area with the reality, based on the local, application-oriented, and characteristic-oriented school positioning, and actively creates a local application-oriented high-end service with distinctive features and outstanding advantages Level university. Pay attention to highlighting the professional characteristics of disciplines, adapt to the needs of regional economic and social development, adhere to the principles of "school-local interaction, integration of production and education, overall optimization, coordinated development, and distinctive features", and vigorously develop applied disciplines and traditional liberal arts and sciences. Gradually form a superior professional group based on liberal arts and sciences, engineering and management disciplines as the main body, and led by information technology, energy machinery, food biology, textiles and clothing, materials and chemical engineering, economic management, and humanities education. Pay attention to the characteristics of talent training, according to the national strategy, regional development, student needs and student reality, adhere to the morality and cultivation of people, and strive to cultivate innovative applications with "solid foundation, strong practice, innovation, broad vision, high quality, and heavy responsibility" Talent. Focusing on prominent regional characteristics, it has established a development strategy of “rooted in Dezhou, facing Shandong, radiating the surrounding areas, serving the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, a circle and one belt, and Shandong Province, striving to become an advanced technology transfer center with significant influence in Dezhou and surrounding areas , Science and technology service centers and technological innovation bases" service positioning, connect disciplines with local industries, connect talent training with local needs, and increase the joint participation of enterprises and industries in personnel training and discipline construction, and serve regional economic and social development. Highlight the school's characteristics. Pay attention to highlighting cultural characteristics, adhering to the national cultural spirit of continuous self-improvement and virtuousness, infiltrating the simple and solid regional cultural characteristics, and constantly carrying forward the spirit of hard work, self-improvement, and inspirational education to maximize the subjective initiative of teachers and students. Efforts to promote the reform and development of the school.

  major

The school currently has 71 undergraduate majors. The majors cover 11 disciplines in economics, law, education, literature, art, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine, and management. The professional structure of engineering and management as the main, multi-disciplinary mutual penetration and coordinated development, and the school-running pattern of undergraduate education as the main and junior college education, and the active development of postgraduate education in some key majors. In 2009, it was identified as a joint training base for postgraduates in Shandong Province, and jointly recruited postgraduates in modern and contemporary Chinese literature, atomic and molecular physics, microbiology, and chemical engineering with Shandong Normal University and Qingdao University of Science and Technology. In 2017, it was approved as the first batch of joint training bases for postgraduates in Shandong Province during the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and was identified by the Shandong Provincial People's Government Academic Degree Committee as a master's degree granting project construction unit in Shandong Province. There are 1 Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory, 1 Provincial Engineering Laboratory, 6 Provincial University Key Disciplines, Key Laboratories, Humanities and Social Sciences Research Bases, and 2 Provincial Key Disciplines of Culture, Art and Science. It has 9 Dezhou key laboratories (engineering technology research center, social science research base), including the Dezhou Biopharmaceutical Engineering Technology Research Center. There are 25,578 full-time undergraduates and junior colleges, 13,120 adult education students, and 24 postgraduates jointly trained with Shandong Normal University, Qingdao University of Science and Technology and other universities.

  education

　　 The school firmly establishes the position of the teaching center, takes talent training as the central task, and actively promotes the reform of talent training mode, and the quality of education and teaching and talent training are continuously improved. There are 1 national characteristic majors, 1 pilot major for comprehensive professional reforms, and 1 off-campus practice education base for college students, which have been approved as universities that implement the national college student innovation and entrepreneurship training program. There are 6 characteristic majors in Shandong Province, 1 pilot major for the professional development support plan for application-oriented talent training in ordinary undergraduate colleges and universities, 2 provincial talent training model innovation experimental areas, 2 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, and provincial-level outstanding engineer education and training programs There are 3 projects, 5 provincial excellent teaching teams, and 36 provincial quality courses. In the past three years, he has undertaken 32 national education and teaching reform projects, 13 provincial and ministerial education and teaching reform projects, won 8 provincial teaching achievement awards, and received 4 high-level application-oriented construction majors (groups) in Shandong Province. 164 projects were approved for the National College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program, teachers instructed students to publish 471 papers, of which 5 were collected by SCI, 2 were collected by EI, 17 papers were published in core journals, and 119 utility model patents were approved. Won 51 awards in the international competitions of science, technology and culture for college students. Among them, in the American College Student Mathematical Modeling Contest, our school's participating students won consecutive international first prizes. There were 2,169 national competition awards, and won the national special prize in the National College English Contest, the "Red, Green and Blue Cup" China College Textile Design Contest and the "Huawen Cup" National Normal University Teaching Skills Contest, and won the National Special Award in the National College Student E-Commerce "Innovation" , Creativity and Entrepreneurship" Challenge, China University Student ICAN Internet of Things Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, National University Business Elite Challenge Circulation Industry Operation Simulation Competition, "China Software Cup" University Student Software Design Competition, National University Student Computer Application Ability and Information Literacy Competition, China The University Computer Design Contest, the National University Student Mathematics Contest, and the "Higher Education Cup" National University Student Advanced Drawing Technology and Product Information Modeling Innovation Contest won first prizes in the country. Shandong Province competition awards 1817 items. It was approved as a model college of entrepreneurship education for college students in Shandong Province. In 2017, it was approved to implement the credit system management pilot unit.

　　 scientific research

The school strives to improve the level of discipline construction and scientific research, basic research has made major breakthroughs in many aspects, and applied research has strong comprehensive research and development capabilities, including biophysics, textiles and clothing, biological science and technology, functional materials, renewable energy, and China Modern and contemporary literature, regional cultural studies and other fields have a great academic influence. In the past three years, he has hosted 298 vertical projects, including 23 from the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 3 from the National Spark Program, 4 from the National Social Science Fund, 8 from the Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, and 58 from other provincial and ministerial projects. Published 819 papers, including SCI, EI, SSCI, A&HCI search papers and CSSCI source journal papers 227, and made important breakthroughs in the field of single crystal graphene biosensing technology. Published 42 academic works. Won 185 scientific research awards at all levels and various types, including 11 provincial scientific research awards.

  serve the society

　　 The school takes the service of regional economic and social development as the starting point and focus, and strives to become a regional application-oriented talent output, technology and intellectual service support, cultural heritage and innovation, high-level talent reserve, and a new high-end think tank. The three-phase service to Texas action plan has been implemented to support local work with practical actions. In December 2016, the Dezhou Municipal Party Committee Office and the Municipal Government Office forwarded the "Dezhou College Serving Texas Action Plan (2016-2020)" to the city, established a school-ground joint meeting system, formulated a service to Texas docking plan, and determined the first batch Serving 110 local projects. The "Implementation Opinions of Dezhou College "Docking with the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Service Demonstration Zone"" was issued, and six main tasks were determined to fully serve the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei coordinated development demonstration zone in Dezhou City. Based on the actual economic and social development, the school vigorously promotes industry-university-research cooperation. Since 2017, a team led by school leaders has completed the first round of school-site cooperation with 13 counties and districts in Dezhou City, and conducted multiple rounds of mutual inspections and exchanges, forming an effective school-site cooperation and exchange mechanism. It has signed comprehensive cooperation agreements with 9 counties and municipalities including Decheng District, and has cooperated with more than 80 enterprises and institutions in various counties and municipalities on comprehensive cooperation, scientific research collaboration, joint research, information consultation, cooperative education, education and training. Cooperation has been reached in terms of, resource sharing and other aspects, various specific cooperation projects have been steadily promoted, the results of cooperation have initially appeared, and a good situation of industry-university-research cooperation and school-government-enterprise win-win situation has taken shape. In the past three years, a total of 34 invention patents have been authorized, more than 10 scientific research achievements have been transformed, more than 10 technical services have been carried out, and more than 80 provincial and municipal research projects have been approved. Focusing on the major issues of Dezhou’s modern industrial system and local economic and social development, more than 80 social service platforms such as research centers and joint laboratories have been built, effectively promoting the close integration of schools, localities, industries, and enterprises. A number of cultural research institutions have been established, such as the Texas Regional Culture Research Center, the Folk Culture Research Center, the Regional Music Culture Research Center, and the Sino-foreign Art Exchange Research Center. They have hosted a large number of cultural forums and cultural propaganda activities, and successively edited and published three series of 34 volumes. "Dezhou Regional Culture Research Series" won the second prize of Shandong Province Outstanding Social Science Achievement.

  Foreign exchange

　　Focusing on the goal of creating an application-oriented university and serving the coordinated development strategy of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, in-depth study of the development law of foreign exchange and cooperation, and constantly promote the school's international exchange and cooperation to a new level. The school conscientiously implements the "Several Opinions on Doing a Good Job in the Opening of Education in the New Era" and the Ministry of Education "Promoting the Joint Construction of "One Belt and One Road" Education Action", and actively promotes the process of international schooling. It has cooperated with 65 universities in 16 countries including the United States, the United Kingdom, Russia, Australia, Poland, South Korea, Malaysia, and the Philippines, as well as Hong Kong and Taiwan. Grant substantive cooperation. Vigorously introducing high-quality educational resources, relying on Sino-Russian, Sino-Australian cooperative education projects, Polish international classes, and credit mutual recognition projects, select more than 1,000 students to study and exchange abroad, and cultivate a large number of applied talents with international perspectives. Actively strive for projects from the China Scholarship Council, Shandong Provincial Government and various national special funds, and select more than 100 teachers to go overseas for further studies, visits and participate in academic conferences, and strive to build a high-level faculty with an international perspective. It has successively recruited more than 300 international students from Russia, Ukraine, South Korea and other countries, and promoted international students to understand and experience Chinese culture through the construction of the "Chinese Regional Cultural Experience Base for Foreign Students in Texas College". The school has successfully held large-scale international education projects such as International Cultural Festival, Sino-Russian International Academic Seminar, "Ministry of Education Russian Art Master Class", "Polish Culture Week", "Sino-Korea Innovation and Entrepreneurship Culture Week" and other large-scale international education programs, further expanding the international education of teachers and students. Of vision.