| East China Normal University | |
|---|---|
| Motto | Seek Truth, Foster Originality; and Live up to the Name of a Teacher (求实创造 为人师表) |
| Established | 1951 |
| Type | Public |
| President | Dr.Yu Lizhong (俞立中 博士) |
| Academic staff | 1,660 |
| Undergraduates | 13,485 |
| Postgraduates | 7,730 |
| Location | Shanghai, People's Republic of China |
| Campus | Putuo Campus (1072.25 acres) Minhang Campus (2071.53 acres) |
| Nickname | 华东师大/华师大 |
| Website | www.ecnu.edu.cn |
East China Normal University (ECNU) (simplified Chinese: 华东师范大学; traditional Chinese: 華東師範大學; pinyin: Huádōng Shīfàn Dàxué), was founded in October 1951 in western Shanghai, on the campus of Great China University. It is the first Normal University founded after the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
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In 1951, East China Normal University (ECNU) was founded. It was principally based on the former Great China University and Kwang Hua University.
In addition, some departments and staff from the following universities were also incorporated into the then newly formed East China (Normal) University:
In 1959, East China Normal University was identified as one of the 16 National Key Universities in China.
In 1972, East China Normal University was renamed Shanghai Normal University, when it merged Shanghai Teachers Institute, Shanghai Education Institute, Shanghai Physical Education Institute, and Shanghai in-Service Teachers Institute. In 1978, the four institutes detached and resume their original status'. In July 1980, the university resumed its original name.
In 1997 and 1998, Shanghai Education Institute, Shanghai Second Education Institute and Shanghai Preschool Education College merged into ECNU successively.
Recently, ECNU has entered into an agreement with New York University (NYU) to establish a study-abroad program enabling almost 200 students from NYU to study at ECNU each academic year.[1]
East China Normal University, one of China’s key universities under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education, is sponsored by the prestigious national program “Project 211” and “Project 985”.
ECNU is a high level normal university founded in October 1951, based on the former Great China University and Kwang Hua University, incorporated with part of Fudan University and Tongji University etc. ECNU was one of the first 16 universities officially graded as National Key Universities in 1959. This status was reaffirmed in 1978. ECNU was also one of the first 33 higher education institutions authorized, by the State Council in 1986, to establish their graduate schools. In 1996, ECNU passed the prerequisites appraisal and became one of universities sponsored by the major national program “Project 211”. In 2006, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality signed into a partnership for co-sponsoring the development of the university, qualifying ECNU as a member of the “Project 985” and facilitating ECNU’s efforts and progress towards a world-renowned high level research university.
With two campuses located in Minhang and Putuo District respectively totaling an area of over 220 hectares, East China Normal University has long been reputed as a “Garden University” for its beautiful campus scenery.
At present the university is made up of 18 full-time schools and colleges, 2 unconventional colleges and 4 advanced research institutes, with 54 departments offering 67 undergraduate programs. They are
- School of Humanities and Social Sciences, School of Education Science, School of Psychology and Cognitive Science, School of Public Administration, School of Preschool Education and Special Education, School of Foreign Languages, School of Business, International College of Chinese Studies, School of Communication, School of Arts, School of Design, School of Physical Education and Health Care, School of Science and Engineering, School of Resources and Environmental Science, School of Life Science, School of Information Science and Technology and School of Software
- College of Continuing Education and College of Distance Education
and
- Institute of Estuary and Coastal Research, Institute for Advanced International and Regional Studies, Institute for Advanced interdisciplinary studies and Si-mian Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities. Among them, the School of Software is the only statewide pilot School of Software at a teachers’ university; The International College of Chinese Studies is among the 8 State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, certified by the Ministry of Education. ECNU is designated as one of the National Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences Training and Research Bases in its disciplines of Chinese, History, Mathematics, Geography, Psychology and Physics.
The university is officially authorized to offer programs:
It has two State Key Laboratories, one National Field Observation and Research Station, six Key Labs or Engineering Centers, and six Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. It is authorized to offer 112 doctoral programs covering 14 Primary Disciplines, 178 master’s programs in 6 specialties, i.e. Education, Public Administration, Engineering, Physical Education and Business Administration, and to set up 14 post-doctoral mobile research stations.
ECNU has a faculty body of over 4,000, among whom there are 1986 full-time teachers (including over 1,000 professors or associate professors), 11 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering (six of them are academicians of both Academies), 11 members of the “State Council Academic Appraisal Committee”, eight specially hired professors or lecture professors for the “Yangtze Scholar Award Program” sponsored by the Ministry of Education, nine “state level talents” chosen by the “New-Century Talents Project,” ten “National Outstanding Youth Fund” award winner, 80 specially hired professors or lecture professors for ECNU’s “Zijiang Scholar Award Program”, and 105 tenured professors. At present, the total number of students is more than 49,000, with over 14,000 full-time undergraduate students and over 7,700 graduate students (including those in a Master’s program), among them more than 2,700 are international students.
East China Normal University attaches great importance to the internationalization in its development and enjoys a wide influence and reputation in the world. The University has established strategic cooperative partnership with many world-renowned universities, such as ENS Group in France, the University of Pennsylvania, St. Lawrence University and New York University in USA, Tokyo University and Kobe University in Japan, and the University of Melbourne in Australia, etc., and has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 100 universities and institutions of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Russia, etc. More than 180 famous scholars have been conferred / invited as honorary professors, advisory professors, visiting professors, or adjunct professors of ECNU. The Ministry of Education’s Training Center for Secondary School Principals located at ECNU is a state base for the training of secondary school principals in Mainland China and advanced studies of those in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It enjoys the reputation as the “Huangpu Military School” for secondary school principals.
The university sponsors or supervises publication of more than 20 academic journals and periodicals. The library collection exceeds 3,900,000 volumes. Sixteen primary or secondary schools are affiliated to the university.
Adhering to the school motto of “Seek Truth, Foster Originality; and Live up to the Name of Teacher”, giving full play to the advantages of its liberal and science disciplines, ECNU has been making notable achievements in skills-training, scientific research, community service and international exchange, contributing significantly to the development of Chinese basic education and teacher education, and the advancement of economics, sciences and society locally and nationally. The development and transformation of the country and the modernized international metropolis of Shanghai brings huge opportunities to the university for its progress. ECNU is working its way up enthusiastically and steadfastly toward the goal of establishing itself as “an internationally renowned high-level research university, with a number of first-class disciplines and a well coordinated disciplinary development, taking the lead in the development of China’s teacher education”.[2]
The University consists of 19 full-time schools, which include totally 44 departments offering 61 undergraduate programs. These schools are:
ECNU's Business School was founded by the pioneer of China's Economics and Financing studies, Prof. Chen Biao Ru. Hence, the Business School of ECNU inherited the good tradition and enjoys top reputation in the economic and financial circle in China.
Department of Information studies is part of Business School. It was funded in 1979, originally called Department of Library Science. Since the development of information technology, talents who have knowledge both in information management and programming technology are more and more needed. To meet this needs, the department was changed into department of information studies in 1998, and the most important major of it is Information Management and Information System. Now, the department has 12 faculties, including 1 professor, 5 assistant professor, 210 undergraduate students and 60 graduate students.
The new structure consisted of six departments; the Chinese language and Literature, History, Philosophy, International Chinese Studies and Art Education departments, in addition to the Institute of Ancient Chinese Book Studies. The school is affiliated with the following research institutes and centres; Institute of Literature, the Institute of Chinese Historiography, the Institute of Philosophy, the Information and Research Center of Literature, History and Philosophy, the Center for Chinese Studies Abroad, the Research Center for International Chinese Language and Culture, the Research Center of Religion and Culture, the Research Center of Hakkalogy, the Research Center of the History of China's Enterprises, and the Research Center of History Education.
Along with several other Chinese universities, East China Normal University has hosted the United Kingdom government funded Study China Programme for a number of years. In this programme, students from various UK institutions spend one to two months during summer studying Mandarin Chinese and Chinese Culture at a university in China. The programme is organised by the University of Manchester and is fully funded by UK government bodies, such as the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills[6][7]. Its purpose is to strengthen ties between UK university students and China, in particular as relatively few British Students enrol in degrees in China each year[8][9]. The programme has increased relations between ECNU and numerous British universities, in particular the University of Manchester.
East China Normal University, 3663 Zhongshan Road (N.), Shanghai 200062, P.R. China.
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