学校简介
云南师范大学是一所历史悠久、传统优良的省属重点师范大学，是云南省人民政府和教育部共建高校、国家中西部基础能力提升工程重点建设的100所高校之一。
1937年抗战爆发后，北京大学、清华大学、南开大学迁至昆明合组国立西南联合大学，下设文学院、理学院、工学院、法商学院、师范学院。1946年抗战胜利后，组成联大的三校复员北返，师范学院整建制留昆独立设置，定名国立昆明师范学院，1950年改名昆明师范学院，1984年更名为云南师范大学。建校75年来，已为国家培养各级各类人才20余万人，被誉为“红土高原上的教师摇篮”。
学校占地面积3330亩，下设24个学院，2个独立学院，40余个科研机构。有全日制博士、硕士研究生和本科生20000余人，成人继续教育学生18000余人，图书资料320余万册，是中国高等教育文献保障系统云南文献信息服务中心建设单位，建有“万兆主干”的新一代“数字校园”。《云南师范大学学报（哲社版）》进入全国高校文科学报30强之列，为CSSCI来源期刊、中文核心期刊；《云南师范大学学报（自然科学版）》综合影响因子进入全国同类期刊前40位，为中国科技核心期刊；在全国大学学报中首创《云南师范大学学报•对外汉语教学与研究版》，综合影响因子在全国同类期刊中排名30位。
学校有文、史、哲、法、教、管、理、工、经济、艺术10大学科门类，形成多学科协调发展的学科与专业格局，在教育部学科评估中有20个学科排名全国高校前20位，3个学科排名前10位。现有87个本科专业，2个博士后流动站，1个一级学科博士点，7个二级学科博士点，26个一级学科硕士点，130个二级学科硕士点，有教育硕士、工商管理硕士（MBA）等13个专业硕士学位授权点，是全国首批招收和培养汉语国际教育硕士专业学位研究生的24所试点高校之一。
学校通过在教育内容、教学方法、课程体系、人才培养模式等方面的改革和创新，完成了由传统的师范教育向现代教师教育、由传统师范院校向以教师教育为特色的教学研究型大学的转型。学校拥有一批国家级教学团队、国家级人才培养模式创新实验区、国家教育体制改革试点项目、国家级教学成果奖、国家级特色专业、国家级专业综合改革试点、国家级精品课程、国家级实验教学示范中心、国家级双语教学示范课程、国家级教学名师、教育部创新团队、教师队伍建设示范项目等，拥有64项国家“质量工程”建设项目，是全国免费师范生试点改革的3所地方高师院校之一，是国家级大学生创新创业训练计划高校，并先后获得“全国普通高等学校优秀教务处”“全国高等学校招生工作先进集体”“全国普通高校成人高等教育先进单位”“全国毕业生就业典型经验高校”等荣誉，在教育部本科教学工作水平评估中获得优秀。
学校建有国家太阳能热水器质检中心、中英太阳能研发中心、中国——老挝可再生能源联合实验室、教育部重点实验室、教育部工程研究中心、教育部创新团队、教育部应用创新开放平台示范基地、国家专业技术人员继续教育基地、国家体育总局体育文化研究基地、云南省院士（专家）工作站——吉亨•阿玛拉通加院士工作站、中国西南对外开放与边疆安全研究中心、汉藏语研究院、云南研究院、云南华文学院、卜励德美国研究中心、朗宁加拿大研究中心和“中国•昆明泛亚人才教育与发展战略研究中心”等一批国家级、省部级科研平台及基地。近五年来承担了国家社科基金重大招标项目、国家“973”、“863”项目、科技部“科技惠民”计划项目等重大科研项目100余项，科研经费超过5.2亿。
学校现有教职工2300余人，其中有国家突出贡献专家、国务院特殊津贴获得者、国家“百千万人才工程”、中国科学院“百人计划”、教育部高校青年教师奖、教育部“新世纪优秀人才支持计划”入选者、云南省高端科技人才等一批专家学者。诺贝尔奖获得者杨振宁，中科院院士杨乐、郭柏灵、戴汝为，英国皇家工程院院士、剑桥大学教授阿马拉通加，2010年诺贝尔经济学奖得主、英国社会科学院院士皮萨里德斯，美国《纽约时报》前总编、普利策奖评审委员会前任主席西默•托平，世界著名未来学家约翰•奈斯比特博士等40余个国家和地区的近100位知名专家被聘为学校名誉教授、客座教授或兼职教授。
学校是一所开放的、有着国际化视野的现代大学，先后被教育部和国家汉办确定为支持周边国家汉语教学的10所重点大学之一、国务院侨办华文教育基地、国家汉语国际推广师资培训基地、中国对东南亚国家进行汉语师资培训的基地、国家首批赴海外承办孔子学院的大学、享受中国政府奖学金和孔子学院奖学金留学生接收院校、全国首批来华留学示范基地、教育部出国留学培训与研究中心、国家HSK考试和汉语作为第二外语教学能力资格考点、联合国教科文组织在中国西南地区的中学英语师资培训基地和云南省目前具有对港澳台招生权的两所高校之一。学校在国外建立了1所孔子学院、3个孔子课堂、5个中国语言文化中心，与英国、美国、加拿大、澳大利亚、新西兰以及港澳台等60多个国家和地区的150余所国外大学和科研机构进行合作交流，招收62个国家的留学生13000余人次。目前有各类留学生1705人，是云南省在校留学生人数最多的高校。
学校先后被国务院授予“民族团结进步模范集体”称号，被人事部、教育部等评为全国教育系统先进集体、依法治校示范校、“国培计划”示范性培训单位、国家节约型公共机构示范单位、全国高校校园文化建设优秀成果一等奖单位、全国五四红旗团委，全国绿化先进单位；在全国大学生数学建模竞赛、“挑战杯”全国大学生课外学术科技作品竞赛、全国大学生演讲比赛、全国大学生英语竞赛、全国师范生教学技能大赛中多次获特等奖、一等奖；先后获云南省基层党建示范点、云南省学习型党组织建设示范点、省委创先争优先进基层党组织。学校的班级、社团和个人也涌现出一批全国先进班集体标兵，全国“学习雷锋”先进集体，全国高校优秀学生社团，全国“小平科技创新团队”以及在雅典、北京、伦敦奥运会和残奥会上获得金、银、铜奖牌的运动员。
在新的历史发展阶段，学校实施“综合集成发展、内涵特色兴校”战略和“包容和合、君子风范”的办学文化，为把学校建设成国内一流的教学研究型师范大学，成为中国西南特色鲜明的区域高水平大学而不懈努力。
About Yunnan Normal University
Yunnan Normal University (henceforth YNNU) is a key university of Yunnan Province, with a long history and a great tradition. It is a higher institution co-funded by the Ministry of Education and the Provincial Government of Yunnan and one of the one hundred universities funded by the National Key Project for the Quality Enhancement of the Higher Institutions in Central and West China.
After the Anti-Japanese War broke out in 1937, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University moved to Kunming and merged into the National Southwest Associated University, which consisted of School of Humanities, School of Science, School of Engineering, School of Business and Law, and the Teachers College. Following the end of the War, the three component universities moved back to their original sites in the north, but the Teachers College, renamed National Kunming Teachers College, stayed behind to become an independent institution. In 1950, the word “National” was dropped from its name. A few decades later, in 1984, it acquired its present name, Yunnan Normal University. In the past 75 years, YNNU has graduated more than 200,000 students for the country and is thus known as the “Cradle of Teachers on the Red-soil Plateau”.
YNNU covers a total area of thirty-three hundred and thirty mu (about five hundred and forty-three acres). It consists of twenty-six schools and more than forty research centers and institutes. It has over thirty thousand full-time students pursuing different degrees and more than eighteen thousand students of continuing education. As the Provincial Center of the Data Resources of Chinese Higher Education, YNNU’s library houses more than 3.2 million books with a new-generation digitalized service system. The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Social Science Edition), included in the highly selective CSSCI (Chinese Social Sciences Citation Index) list, ranks among the top thirty of its kind, while the Natural Science Edition is a nationally acclaimed core journal, its impact factor ranking among the top forty natural science journals in China. In addition, the Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language Edition, the pioneer in this field, ranks among the top thirty journals of its kind in China in terms of impact factor.
YNNU offers ten disciplines: literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, science, engineering, economics, and arts, which are well coordinated in their development. In a recent assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education, twenty of YNNU’s sub-disciplines are ranked among the top twenty in the whole country while three of them are among the top ten. YNNU offers eighty-six bachelor’s programs, one postdoctoral research program, one doctoral program in a first-class discipline, seven doctoral programs in second-class disciplines, twenty-six master’s programs in first-class disciplines, one hundred and thirty master’s programs in second-class disciplines, and ten professional master’s programs, such as MBA and M.Ed. It is one of the first twenty-four universities in China that offer the Master’s Program for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.
Through innovations and reforms in contents, teaching methodology, curricula and talent training models, YNNU has accomplished the transformation from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research modern university, with teacher education as its typical trait. It has a number of state-level teaching teams, innovative training programs, special majors, brilliant teachers, excellent courses and experimental teaching bases that rank among the best in China in their respective fields. It has won several national excellent teaching awards. It is carrying out state-funded projects in such areas as reforms in education system, bilingual teaching and teaching innovation and faculty development. It has sixty state-level Quality Projects under construction. It is one of the three universities of its kind in China that offer free teacher-training programs and one of the national college-student innovation training bases. YNNU’s Teaching Affairs Department, the Enrollment & Employment Department and the Adult Education Department have won state-level honors for their respective contribution. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment conducted by the Ministry of Education.
The university has quite a few research centers or institutes at the national, ministerial or provincial levels, including the National Solar-heater Quality Testing Center, the Sino-British Solar-energy Research and Development Center, the Sino-Laos Joint Lab for Recyclable Energy Resources, the Ministry of Education’s Key Lab, Engineering Research Center, Innovative Team, Technological Application and Innovation Demonstration Base, State-level Professional Talent Continuing Education Base, Research Center of Sports Culture Sponsored by the General Administration of Sport of China, Yunnan Province’s Academician Work Center—Academician Gehan Amaratunga’s Work Center, Research Center for the Opening of Southwest China and Frontier Security, Research Institute of Sino-Tibetan Languages, Institute of Studies of Yunnan, Yunnan College of Chinese Language and Culture, Platt American Studies Center, Ronning Canadian Studies Center, Kunming Strategy Research Institute for Pan-Asian Talent Training and Development, and so on. In the past five years, YNNU has taken on over one hundred prestigious key research projects like the National Social Science Foundation Major Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Major Project, “973” Project, “863” Project, and research projects funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology. YNNU’s research funds total over 520 million Yuan (RMB).
YNNU has a staff of over two thousand and two hundred people. Many of the faculty are experts with honors awarded by the Central Government, the State Council, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Ministry of Education or Yunnan Provincial Government. In addition, it has invited about one hundred well-known experts from forty countries and regions all over the world as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, a Nobel Prize winner, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing and Professor Dai Ruwei who are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, managing editor for the New York Times and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and Dr. John Naisbitt, a well-known futurist.
YNNU boasts of its international vision and modern ideas. It is one of the ten universities selected by the Ministry of Education and the Office of Chinese Language Council to support Chinese Teaching in neighboring countries. It has a Chinese Teaching Base sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, a Teacher-training Base for International Promotion of TCF sponsored by Hanban/Confucius Institute Headquarters, a HSK test center, a CFL test center, and a Training and Research Center for Overseas Studies sponsored by the Ministry of Education. It has a TCFL Teacher-training Base for Southeast Asian countries. It is one of the first Chinese universities selected by the Chinese Government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship to international students. Up to now, it has established one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms and five Chinese culture centers abroad. It has cooperation with one hundred and fifty universities and research institutes in Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries and Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China. It has trained thirteen thousand international students from sixty-two countries. It has a training base for middle-school English teachers in southwest China sponsored by UNESCO and is one of the two universities in Yunnan Province that are authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China. YNNU now has one thousand seven hundred and five international students from all over the world, the largest number in all the higher institutions of Yunnan.
YNNU has won honors for its contribution to our national unity, educational development, cultural construction, moral education and legal construction from the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, the Ministry of Education and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee and from the provincial government and the local governments at different levels. Many of its students have won honors from governments and institutions at different levels for their scientific and technological innovation, achievements in moral education and praiseworthy actions for helping other people and other prestigious awards as well. Some students are medal winners in the Olympic Games or the Paralympic Games in Beijing, Athens or London.
In the new stage of development, YNNU will do its best to implement its strategy of “integrating our strengths with typical and local features” and develop a campus culture of “inclusiveness, harmony and politeness”, so as to become one of the best teaching-research normal universities in China and a high-quality university in Central and West China.
