East China Normal University (ECNU) , was founded in October 1951 in western
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, on the campus of Great China University. It is the first Normal University founded after the establishment of the
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.
History
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:
- Datong University
Shanxi Datong University is a university in Datong, Shanxi, China. It used to be a 2-year normal school to prepare teachers for elementary schools.-External links:...
- East Asia Physical Education College
- Fudan University
Fudan University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in China, and is a member of the C9 League. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty...
- Hujiang University
- St. John's University
St. John's University was an Anglican university located in Shanghai, China. Before the Chinese Civil War it was regarded as one of the most prestigious universities in Shanghai and China...
- Tongji University
Tongji University , colloquially known as Tongji , located in Shanghai, has more than 30,000 students and 8,000 staff members . It offers degree programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels...
- Zhengdan University
- Zhejiang University
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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
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(NYU) to establish a study-abroad program enabling almost 200 students from NYU to study at ECNU each academic year.
Present
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 “
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” and “
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”.
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 UniversityFudan University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most selective universities in China, and is a member of the C9 League. Its institutional predecessor was founded in 1905, shortly before the end of China's imperial Qing dynasty...
and
Tongji UniversityTongji University , colloquially known as Tongji , located in Shanghai, has more than 30,000 students and 8,000 staff members . It offers degree programs at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels...
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 211Project 211 is a project of National Key Universities and colleges initiated in 1995 by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, with the intent of raising the research standards of high-level universities and cultivating strategies for socio-economic development...
”. 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 985Project 985 is a project first announced by CPC General secretary and Chinese President Jiang Zemin at the 100th anniversary of Peking University on May 4, 1998 to promote the development and reputation of the Chinese higher education system...
” 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
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and Cognitive Science, School of
Public AdministrationPublic Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
, School of
Preschool EducationPreschool education is the provision of learning to children before the commencement of statutory and obligatory education, usually between the ages of zero and three or five, depending on the jurisdiction....
and
Special EducationSpecial education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...
, School of Foreign Languages, School of
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, International College of Chinese Studies, School of
CommunicationCommunication is the activity of conveying meaningful information. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast...
, School of
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, School of
DesignDesign as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
, School of
Physical EducationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
and Health Care, School of
ScienceScience is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and
EngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
, School of Resources and
Environmental ScienceEnvironmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
, 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
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and Basic Sciences Training and Research Bases in its disciplines of
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HistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
,
MathematicsMathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
,
GeographyGeography is the science that studies the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of Earth. A literal translation would be "to describe or write about the Earth". The first person to use the word "geography" was Eratosthenes...
,
PsychologyPsychology is the study of the mind and behavior. Its immediate goal is to understand individuals and groups by both establishing general principles and researching specific cases. For many, the ultimate goal of psychology is to benefit society...
and
PhysicsPhysics is a natural science that involves the study of matter and its motion through spacetime, along with related concepts such as energy and force. More broadly, it is the general analysis of nature, conducted in order to understand how the universe behaves.Physics is one of the oldest academic...
.
The university is officially authorized to offer programs:
- in two of the Primary Disciplines and five of the Sub-Disciplines, which are enlisted as National Key Disciplines;
- in five of the disciplines, which are enlisted as Preparatory National Key Disciplines,
- in 12 disciplines enlisted as Shanghai Key Disciplines.
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.
EducationEducation in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
,
Public AdministrationPublic Administration houses the implementation of government policy and an academic discipline that studies this implementation and that prepares civil servants for this work. As a "field of inquiry with a diverse scope" its "fundamental goal.....
,
EngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
,
Physical EducationPhysical education or gymnastics is a course taken during primary and secondary education that encourages psychomotor learning in a play or movement exploration setting....
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 SciencesThe Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...
or
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(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
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in USA, Tokyo University and
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, etc., and has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 100 universities and institutions of
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, 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
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and advanced studies of those in
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. It enjoys the reputation as the “
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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”.
Structure
Schools
The University consists of 19 full-time schools, which include totally 44 departments offering 61 undergraduate programs. These schools are:
- Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
- Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
- Education
Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
al Science
- Educational Administration
An academic administration is a branch of university or college employees responsible for the maintenance and supervision of the institution and separate from the faculty or academics, although some personnel may have joint responsibilities...
- Preschool education
A nursery school is a school for children between the ages of one and five years, staffed by suitably qualified and other professionals who encourage and supervise educational play rather than simply providing childcare...
and Special educationSpecial education is the education of students with special needs in a way that addresses the students' individual differences and needs. Ideally, this process involves the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials,...
- Foreign language
A foreign language is a language indigenous to another country. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her...
s
- Business
A business is an organization engaged in the trade of goods, services, or both to consumers. Businesses are predominant in capitalist economies, where most of them are privately owned and administered to earn profit to increase the wealth of their owners. Businesses may also be not-for-profit...
- Finance
"Finance" is often defined simply as the management of money or “funds” management Modern finance, however, is a family of business activity that includes the origination, marketing, and management of cash and money surrogates through a variety of capital accounts, instruments, and markets created...
and StatisticsStatistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....
- Law
Legal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law or business...
and PoliticsPolitics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
- Sport
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s and Health
- Science
Science is a systematic enterprise that builds and organizes knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe...
and EngineeringEngineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
- Resource and Environmental science
Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...
- Life Science
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- Information Science and Technology
Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage and dissemination of vocal, pictorial, textual and numerical information by a microelectronics-based combination of computing and telecommunications...
- Teaching Chinese
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as a foreign language
- Software Engineering
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Institute
- Communication
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- Design
Design as a noun informally refers to a plan or convention for the construction of an object or a system while “to design” refers to making this plan...
- Vocational College
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Business School
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.
Foundings
- In 1993, the school of Literature
Literature is the art of written works, and is not bound to published sources...
and ArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
was founded.
- In April 1994, the School of Humanities
The humanities are academic disciplines that study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural sciences....
was first founded, comprising the HistoryHistory is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...
, PhilosophyPhilosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...
, LawLegal education is the education of individuals who intend to become legal professionals or those who simply intend to use their law degree to some end, either related to law or business...
/PoliticsPolitics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
and Social sciencesSocial science is the field of study concerned with society. "Social science" is commonly used as an umbrella term to refer to a plurality of fields outside of the natural sciences usually exclusive of the administrative or managerial sciences...
departments.
- In April 2001, the school of Humanities was reconstructed. The Law and Politics and Social Science departments separated from each other, and the School of Literature and Art was merged.
The new structure consisted of six departments; the
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and Literature, History, Philosophy, International Chinese Studies and
ArtArt is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
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.
State key laboratories
- State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research
- State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy
Key laboratories of provincial level and ministerial level
- Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics,Ministry of Education
- Key Laboratory of Geography-Information Science,Ministry of Education
- Shanghai Insititute of Brain Functional Genomics
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Green Chemical Process
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Urbanization & Ecological Restoration
- Shanghai Key Laboratory of Trustworthy Computing
Study China Programme
Along with several other Chinese universities, East China Normal University has hosted the
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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
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and is fully funded by UK government bodies, such as the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. 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. The programme has increased relations between ECNU and numerous British universities, in particular the University of Manchester.
Key research bases in humanities and social science
- Institute of Curriculum and Instruction
- Institute of Modern Chinese Thought and Culture
- Center For Russian Studies
- Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Their Applications
- Institute of Schooling Reform and Development
- Center for Modern Chinese City Studies
Noted alumni
- Wang Huning
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(王沪宁): Member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and director of Policy Research Office of the CPC Central Committee.
- He Xian (何宪): Vice Minister of the Ministry of Personnel of the P.R.China.
- Han Zheng
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(韩正): Mayor of ShanghaiShanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
.
- Xue Yongqi (薛永祺): Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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.
- Song Daxiang (宋大祥): Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
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.
- Liu Boli (刘伯里): Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
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.
- Stephen Z.D. Cheng (程正迪): Academician of the National Academy of Engineering
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- Lu Bai (鲁白): Senior Investigator of National Institutes of Health
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.
- Joe Z. Tsien (钱卓): neuroscientist.
- Jiang Nanchun (江南春): Founder of Focus Media
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.
- Liu Xiang
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(刘翔): Gold medalist of 110-meter hurdles in the 2004 Summer OlympicsThe 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
.
- Xue Peijian (薛沛建): President of Shanghai Media & Entertainment Group
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.
- He Jifeng
He Jifeng is a Chinese computer scientist.He Jifeng was a Senior Research Fellow at the Programming Research Group in the Oxford University Computing Laboratory from 1984 to 1998. He worked extensively on formal aspects of computing science...
(何积丰)： Academician of the Chinese Academy of SciencesThe Chinese Academy of Sciences , formerly known as Academia Sinica, is the national academy for the natural sciences of the People's Republic of China. It is an institution of the State Council of China. It is headquartered in Beijing, with institutes all over the People's Republic of China...
and academic at ECNU.
Alumni associations
- East China Normal University Alumni Association
- East China Normal University Alumni Association in US
- East China Normal University Alumni Association in North California
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