Shanghai Aurora Vocational College is a full-time college approved by the Shanghai Municipal People's Government and reported to the Ministry of Education for the record. In 1903, the famous educator Ma Xiangbo founded "China's first private university-Aurora University"; in 1984, Ms. Zhang Huili inherited the educational philosophy of the pioneer of patriotic education and founded "Aurora Education". After completing the preliminary exploration of private education, Zhang Huili did not forget her original intention to organize higher education and became one of the pioneers in the development of higher education after my country's reform and opening up.
Adhering to the school motto of "Advocating science, focusing on literature and art, and not teaching theory" advocated by Mr. Ma Xiangbo, the college has cultivated a good teaching style, style of study and school spirit, and the level of school running and the quality of talent training have been highly recognized by the society. "Aurora Education" is "Shanghai City famous trademark". In 2019, our school became the only private school in Shanghai that has obtained a five-year consistent school system, and it is also one of the six private high-quality higher vocational colleges that have obtained the qualification for expansion.
In 2018, in accordance with the “Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Amending the “Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Promotion of Private Education” and the “Detailed Rules for the Implementation of Classification and Registration of Private Schools”, Aurora selected for-profit schools to promote school development. To become a non-profit, non-profit-oriented, flexible mechanism, school-enterprise cooperation, and integration of production and education into a characteristic private higher vocational college.
The college has 2 central financial support training centers, 23 experimental centers, 3 municipal excellent teaching teams, won the second and third prizes of Shanghai Teaching Achievement, 4 teaching highlands of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and 8 cities Class-level quality courses, 5 Shanghai key majors, 3 key majors of the Ministry of Education, 9 training centers, 109 on-campus training rooms (covering all majors and supported by special funds from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission), 175 off-campus training bases Etc.
The college has a food nutrition and testing training center, an electromechanical training center, an international business training center, a news studio training center, a numerical control technology training center, an Internet of Things technology training center, and two central financial support training centers. There are 4 teaching highlands of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, 23 experimental centers and 109 training rooms, covering all majors and receiving special funding support from the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission. In 2019, Aurora implemented the innovative project of party building and ideological and political work in private colleges and universities in Shanghai, and established the only mental health education training base in private colleges and universities in the country.
In 2018, he won the first, second, and third prizes of Shanghai Teaching Achievement, 2 municipal excellent teaching teams, 7 municipal quality courses, 5 Shanghai key majors, and 11 school-enterprise cooperation professional projects. The college insists on being employment-oriented, highlighting key points, and promoting the connection of professional settings with social needs. The college now has 5 secondary colleges and 31 majors, including public health and nursing, mechanical and electrical engineering, economic management, education, and Oriental film. It also has an international exchange college, a continuing education college and a Marxist college,
The college has a stable team of teachers with both ability and political integrity. Among the full-time teachers, more than 30% have senior professional titles. Teachers with "dual teacher quality" account for a relatively high proportion, and nearly 100 teachers have gone abroad for training. The college is unique in psychological counseling and moral education. Huang Xijian is currently the party secretary and professor of Aurora Vocational College. He is a famous teacher of mental health education in Shanghai, honorary president and director of the expert committee of the Shanghai University Psychological Counseling Association, and the National College Student Psychological Counseling Professional Committee Deputy director.
The principal of the school, Feng Weiguo, won a special government allowance from the State Council. He is the chairman of the Shanghai Industry-University Cooperation Education Association, the host of the Higher Vocational Education Teacher Training Base Center of the Ministry of Education, and the host of the national key construction vocational education teacher training and training base.
The college has always attached importance to the construction of practical training and experimental bases. The college has an "Aurora Innovation Valley" covering an area of 50 acres, with a construction area of more than 30,000 square meters; it cooperates with Shanghai Lingang Science and Technology Entrepreneurship Center and enjoys special preferential tax policies in Lingang and entrepreneurial funds provided by the Aurora Education Foundation Shuangxiang support provides a stage for college students to start their own businesses and innovate.
The college implements an international development strategy aimed at cultivating technical and skilled talents with an international perspective and familiar with international rules and local talents that Chinese companies need for overseas development. So far, it has established exchanges and cooperation relations with more than ten foreign universities and educational institutions. In 2015, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to cooperate with California Baptist University in running the "Internet of Things Application Technology" major. In 2018, it was approved by the Ministry of Education to cooperate with North Korea East West University to hold the major of "Drama, Film and Television Performance". In the same year, he was approved to cooperate with Siena Hertz University in the United States to hold the major of "Art Design".