Shandong Union College is a private university with abundant high-quality resources for running schools, focusing on application-oriented undergraduate education, supplemented by skill-based higher vocational education, and actively developing professional master's degree postgraduate education
Shandong Union University is an ordinary undergraduate university approved by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, and it is also a construction unit of "characteristic famous university" for undergraduate students supported by Shandong government. Founded in 1993, it is located in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, with a campus area of 1,480 acres.
The school has 10 secondary schools (departments), including the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, the School of Architectural Engineering, the School of Computer Science, the School of Economics and Management, the School of Nursing, the School of Medicine, the School of Humanities and Education, the School of Automobile, the School of Continuing Education, and the Department of Basic Education (Ideological and Political Department). There are 21 general undergraduate majors and 40 general junior college majors, forming a discipline and professional structure with coordinated development of engineering, management, medicine, literature and education.
1. The geographical environment is superior, and it has unique humanities and education resources
Shandong, the land of Qilu in ancient times, is located in the east coast of China, the lower reaches of the Yellow River, with beautiful scenery, rich resources, long history, and many celebrities, and is a major economic and cultural province in China. The province's gross domestic product (GDP) reached 5.94 trillion yuan, ranking among the top three provinces in the country in terms of comprehensive economic strength. It is the source of Chinese culture, an important birthplace of the Chinese nation, the state of Confucius and Mencius, and the hometown of etiquette.
Jinan is the capital of Shandong Province, the political, economic and cultural center of Shandong Province, an important political, military, cultural and industrial center and a regional financial center in China. Jinan has a profound historical and cultural heritage, with a history of more than 4,600 years, and has the reputation of "the spring city of the world" and "the spring capital of the world", and has famous places such as Daming Lake, Baotu Spring, and Thousand Buddha Mountain; It is the birthplace of Longshan culture, which symbolizes the origin of Chinese civilization, a national historical and cultural city, a national innovative city, and a famous software city in China. Jinan is located in the north-south east-west transportation hub, climbing Mount Tai, going to Beijing and Tianjin, visiting Qingdao, visiting Confucius, can be reached within 1-3 hours.
Jinan, the provincial capital, is the seat of the provincial and municipal education authorities, and contains abundant high-quality resources for running schools. It is convenient for the school to take advantage of this advantage, obtain information consultation, open up communication channels, and strive for the support of superiors, so as to create a good external environment for the sustainable and healthy development of the school. Jinan has Shandong University, Shandong Normal University, Shandong University of Finance and Economics, Shandong Jianzhu University and other well-known universities, which is convenient for the school to take advantage of this geographical advantage, hire experts, professors and scholars who have retired from well-known universities to work in the school, introduce and employ high-level teachers from well-known universities to engage in teaching and scientific research, learn and absorb the advanced school-running concepts and experience of well-known universities, and continuously improve the quality of teachers and the quality of education and teaching. Jinan is the province's first choice for the dissemination of new culture, is a broad platform for the convergence and integration of various ideas and cultures, and its thick cultural accumulation and strong cultural atmosphere help students broaden their horizons and activate their thinking. It is convenient for schools to adhere to open schooling, pay attention to practical education, so that students can be infected and edified in the cultural environment and improve their overall quality. Relying on these unique geographical conditions, Shandong Union College has realized the leapfrog development of connotation construction.
Second, the guiding ideology is clear, forming a distinctive advantage and characteristics of running a school
School philosophy: adhere to the "people-oriented", highlight the main position of students and the leading role of teachers, strengthen ability training, implement quality education, and take moral cultivation as the fundamental task; Adhere to social service, educate people in the return to the society, and develop in the service society; Establish the purpose of "running the school in accordance with the law, running the school in good faith, standardizing the school, and running the school openly", and implement the development strategy of "establishing the school with quality, governing the school by experts, strengthening the school with talents, and revitalizing the school with characteristics"; Condense the school motto of "Enlightenment, Virtue and Literature", the school spirit of "integrity, dedication, truth-seeking, and pragmatism", and the school style of "diligence, good thinking, dedication, and innovation", and form a campus culture of "harmony" and progress.
Positioning: Positioning: Teaching-oriented colleges and universities. Orientation of the school-running level: Focusing on application-oriented undergraduate education, supplemented by skill-based higher vocational education, and actively developing professional master's degree graduate education. Discipline and professional positioning: with engineering as the main body and medicine as the feature, engineering, medicine, management, literature, education and other disciplines penetrate each other, support each other, and develop in a coordinated manner. Talent training orientation: cultivate senior application-oriented professionals with solid basic theory, wide range of professional knowledge, strong practical ability, high comprehensive quality, strong adaptability, entrepreneurial ability and innovative spirit. Service-oriented positioning: based in Jinan, facing Shandong, radiating the whole country, serving the grassroots and regional economic and social development.
Ideas for running a school: take the scientific concept of development as the guide, actively adapt to the needs of regional economic and social development, consciously follow the law of higher education development and the development law of private universities, take talent training as the foundation, take teaching as the center, focus on ability training, take quality as the key, take employment as the purpose, take the construction of disciplines and specialties as the leader, take curriculum construction as the basis, take education and teaching reform as the focus, focus on team building, take investment as the support, take management as the guarantee, and take the innovation of system and mechanism as the driving force, and implement the development of connotation. Featured development.
Goal: Strive to build the school into a high-level private university that actively serves the regional economic and social development, has perfect school-running conditions, leading teaching reform, high teaching quality, outstanding advantages in disciplines and specialties, and is characterized by the implementation of application-oriented talent training, and its comprehensive school-running strength and talent training level are in the leading position of private universities in the province, and it has entered the advanced ranks of private universities in the country, has a high reputation in the province and has a certain influence in the country.
