Yuncheng Advanced Normal College is a public full-time advanced normal college, officially approved by Shanxi Provincial People’s Government and Ministry of Education. As a high standard, modern normal college, it is situated in university town of Shun emperor mausoleum scenic area in Yuncheng, next to Yuncheng University and Yuncheng Vocational Nursing College, covering an area of 450 mu.
The college grew out of Yuncheng Normal School and Jishan Normal School, which were famous in Yuncheng and Shanxi province. For more than one century, it has educated dozens of Party, government, and army cadres and thousands of excellent primary and middle school teachers, such as the first ambassador to the US Chai Zemin, former deputy secretary of the State Council Zheng Siyuan, the standing committee member of CPPCC, vice-president of Chinese Writers Association, vice-governor of Shanxi province Zhang Ping, former political commissar of Chengdu military area general Zhang Zhijian. After the reform and opening-up, the college has been insisting on seeking survival with quality, seeking development with management, carrying out scientific research as the forerunner, and adhering to employment-oriented education, to realize its fundamental target of cultivating primary school teachers at college level with spirits of innovation and abilities of practice. It engages in deepening various reforms focusing on teaching, promoting education level and comprehensive strength, and providing strong talents support and intellectual support for the economic development of Yellow River Golden Triangle of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan province and local education development and overall progress. The college has been awarded the titles of “A Hundred Models of National Quality Education”, “National Advanced Unit of Arts Education”, “National Advanced Unit of Sports”, “National May 4th Red Banner League Committee”, “Shanxi Excellent Normal College”, “Shanxi Civilized School”, and “Shanxi Advanced Unit for Primary and Middle School Teachers Training” etc.
The college has picturesque natural scenery and advanced facilities. There are 15 high standard buildings, including teaching building, experimental building, arts building, library, lecture hall, gymnasium, administration building, apartment building, and restaurant. It is equipped with computer room, broadcasting and TV station, language laboratory, E-book reading room, physiological consulting room, physical and chemical laboratory, and plastic playground etc. Multi-media teaching equipment are used in all the classrooms.
The college has abundant qualified teachers, with 429 full-time teachers, including 2 teachers with doctor degree, 125 teachers with master degree, 4 foreign teachers, 3 senior teachers, 2 national model teachers, 7 provincial subject leaders, 8 provincial backbone teachers, 107 associate professors, and 203 lecturers. It is a national research project’s experimental college.
There are 10 functional offices, including Party Committee Office, President Office, Organizational Personnel Office, Educational Administration Office, Student Affairs Office, General Affairs Office, Finance Office, Employment Guidance Office, Senior Cadres Office and Security Office. The 8 teaching departments are the Department of Education and Research, Chinese Department, Department of Statistics, Foreign Languages Department, Music Department, Fine Arts and Art Design Department, Department of Physical Education, Education and Psychology Department, Ideological and Political Teaching Department, and Public Service Department. There are 3 teaching assistant organizations: Audio-visual Education Center, Library and Training Department. The 3 mass organizations are Trade Unions, League Committees and Women’s Committees.
Under people-oriented educational ideology, the college actively explores new talents cultivating program, which incorporates imparting knowledge, cultivating ability, improving quality, and developing personality, highlighting the characteristics of normal college and laying emphasis on students’ basic skills. Every student is required to pass National Mandarin Proficiency Test, Sketches Test, and Standard Writing Level Test. All the students are encouraged to attend primary teacher qualification exam, CET-4 and CET-6, computer rank examination, and undergraduate examination, with plenty of students furthering their study in universities and colleges of higher level every year.
Yuncheng Advanced Normal College is your best choice to build perfect personality, improve your employment ability, and realize your value of life!
