Minnan Normal University, ' () previously known as Zhangzhou Normal University () is a public

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located in

Zhangzhou Zhangzhou (), alternately romanized as Changchow, is a prefecture-level city in Fujian Province, China. The prefecture around the city proper comprises the southeast corner of the province, facing the Taiwan Strait and surrounding the prefect ...

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Location

Zhangzhou Normal University is located in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, a city on the west coast of the

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History

The university was founded in 1963 as the Fujian No.2 Normal College. Between 1965 and 1969, the university had to stop enrolling students due to revolutions in culture. In 1986, with the approval of the State Education Committee, the former Fujian No.2 Normal College was renamed as Zhangzhou Normal University. In 1992, the university was authorized to confer

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s, and, in 2000, it was among the first batch of normal colleges and universities in passing the qualification evaluation by the

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in the teaching of undergraduates. In 2003, it was authorized to confer

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s, after passing the evaluation by the Academic Degree Appraisal Committee of the State Council, and began to take in candidates of master's degrees. In 2008, Zhangzhou Normal University received a straight-A score in the undergraduate level Teaching Appraisal, organized by the Ministry of Education. In April 2013, Zhangzhou Normal University was renamed Minnan Normal University.

Administration structure

Staff

Zhangzhou Normal University has 1,257 total faculty and staff, among whom 878 are full-time professional teachers, including 236

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s or associate professors.

Faculty structure

The university currently consists of 18 departments or schools, such as the Department of

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and

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, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, Department of

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and

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, and School of Overseas Education. The school has 47 undergraduate programs and 12 master programs in total.

Student

The university’s matriculation is open to students from all over the country and from abroad. It has a total enrollment of 25,699: 17,892 full-time undergraduate students, 148 master students, and 7,659 adult education students.

Campus

Zhangzhou Normal University covers a total area of , with a total floor space of . The universities library contains 1,265,000 books and 1,108,000

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s and periodicals.

Research

Zhangzhou Normal University has set up 26

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s, such as the Fujian-Taiwan Cultural Research Institute, the Educational Science Research Institute, the Applied Psychology Research Institute, the Applied Chemistry Research Institute, and the Human Resources Research Institute. It has two provincial laboratories, one provincial humanities and social sciences base. The university has hosted international and domestic academic

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s such as the International Symposium of Chinese Style of Metrical Composition, the International Symposium of General Topology and the International Symposium of Lin Yutang Study. Since 2004, the university has been permitted to set up 450 scientific research projects, among which 6 are state-funded projects of

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s, 3 are state-funded projects of

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s, 3 are humanities and social sciences projects funded by the

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and 12 are projects awarded as prizes for achievements in scientific research at the provincial and ministerial levels. 2,631 theses were published in

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s domestically and abroad, with 134 pieces included in SCI, EI and ISTP.

References

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