Shandong Normal University (, English acronym SDNU) is a university in
Jinan
Jinan (), Postal Map Romanization, alternately romanization of Chinese, romanized as Tsinan, is the Capital (political), capital of Shandong province in East China, Eastern China. With a population of 9.2 million, it is the second-largest city i ...
City,
Shandong Province
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizatio ...
,
China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
. It is one of the earliest institutions of higher learning established in Shandong Province since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
History
Predecessor schools of teachers education in Shandong date back to 1902. The university itself was established in 1950 and was known as Shandong Normal College () until 1981. The new campus welcomed the first batch of students in 2005.
Campus and Statistics
The university has two campuses, covering an area of 250 hectares. Currently there are more than 34,000 full-time Chinese students and over 200 international students enrolled.
Qilu Culture Research Centre and Elementary Teaching Courses Research Centre at SDNU are the only two key research centers of the humanities established at provincial universities by the Ministry of Education of China (MOE). SDNU publishes six international academic periodicals. Among them is ''China Population Resources & Environment'', which is the only journal focusing on sustainable development in China.
SDNU has co-operative relationships with 59 universities from more than 15 countries and regions. Since 2011, it regularly employs foreign instructors for special two-week courses in English on issues relating to the web and media through the School of Communications. In 1983 SDNU was approved by the
Ministry of Education of China
The Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China is a cabinet-level department under the State Council responsible for basic education, vocational education, higher education, and other educational affairs across the country. The Mi ...
) to recruit international students and receive international China scholarship students. And SDNU is among the HSK exam centers approved by MOE. Since then, over 5,000 international students have graduated from the university.
Notable faculty members
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An Zuozhang
An Zuozhang (; 10 January 1927 – 20 February 2019) was a Chinese historian who specialized in ancient Chinese history and the regional history of Shandong. A lifelong professor of Shandong Normal University, he was considered in China as a lead ...
, historian
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Meigu Guan
Meigu Guan (, also Romanized as Mei-Ko Kwan or Mei-ku Kuan, born 1934 in Shanghai) is a Chinese mathematician and one of the country's leading experts on mathematical programming. He is known for his research on the route inspection problem, and s ...
, mathematician
See also
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Attached Senior School of Shandong Normal University
The Attached Senior School of Shandong Normal University ( Chinese: 山东师范大学附属中学; Pinyin: Shāndōng Shīfàn Dàxué Fùshǔ Zhōngxué), or simply Shangshi Fuzhong is a high school in Jinan City, Shandong Province, China.
The ...
External links
Shandong Normal University website
Universities and colleges in Jinan
Teachers colleges in China
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