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。抗战胜利后，1946年组成联大的三校复员北返，师范学院整建制留在昆明独立办学，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70余年来，为国家培养了专科以上学历教育学生约52万人，留学生教育约2万人，成人非学历教育学生12万余人，协助省教育厅完成中小学教师培训333万余人次，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。学校有全日制博士、硕士研究生和本科生33000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、中国人文社会科学核心期刊；《云南师范大学学报·自然科学版》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，为“全国高校优秀社科期刊”。
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2012年教育部第三轮学科评估中有22个学科排名全国高校前20位，3个学科排名前10位。现有90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种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。
学校通过在教师教育、人才培养模式、课程体系、学分制、教学内容、教学方法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。学校共获国家级教学成果奖12项，2014年实现国家教学成果一等奖的突破，获得一等奖1项、二等奖2项；拥有国家级教学团队、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，共有76项国家“质量工程”建设项目；是国家级大学生创新创业训练计划高校，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质检中心、中国——老挝可再生能源联合实验室2个国家级平台，教育部重点实验室、教育部工程研究中心、云南省重点实验室、云南省工程中心、云南省哲学社会科学研究基地等省部级科研平台及基地33个，教育部创新团队、云南省科技创新团队、云南省哲学社会科学创新团队等省部级创新团队13个。有中国西南地缘环境与边疆发展协同创新中心、西南地区可再生能源研究与开发协同创新中心2个省级协同创新中心，有云南教育决策咨询智库、中国西南周边地缘环境与“一带一路”建设研究智库2个云南高校新型智库。2011-2014年，学校共获各级各类科研项目1779项，科研经费5.57亿元；新增国家自然科学基金159项，国家社会科学基金65项，含国家科技支撑计划、国家科技惠民计划、国家社会科学基金重大招标项目、国家社会科学基金特别委托项目等国家级重大（点）项目15项；教师共出版著作428部，其中A类出版社104部；共发表论文8774篇，其中三大检索收录论文834篇，CSSCI论文733篇；共获122项科研成果奖，其中全国第六届高校科学研究优秀成果奖２项、云南省科学技术奖９项、云南省哲学社会科学研究成果奖99项；共获授权专利74项，软件著作权登记116项，3项国家标准获得国家标准委立项。
学校现有教职工2373人，其中有国家突出贡献专家和国务院特殊津贴获得者、中国科学院“百人计划”、国家“百千万人才工程”、国家级教学名师、教育部高校青年教师奖、教育部“新世纪优秀人才培养计划”入选者、中科院“西部之光”项目培养计划人才、全国劳动模范和先进工作者、全国模范教师、全国优秀教师、全国马克思主义理论研究与建设工程主要专家等一批专家学者。诺贝尔奖获得者杨振宁，中科院院士杨乐、郭柏灵、戴汝为、欧阳自远，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，著名经济学家吴敬琏等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、国务院台办“国立西南联大旧址”海峡两岸交流基地、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和具有对港澳台招生权的高校。学校在国外建立了1所孔子学院、3个孔子课堂、6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160余所国外大学和科研机构进行合作交流，招收81个国家的留学生16000余人次。目前有各类留学生1725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、毕业生就业典型经验高校、“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”的办学理念和“包容和合、君子风范”的办学文化，为把学校建成全国特色鲜明的高水平大学而不懈努力。
About Yunnan Normal University
As the key normal university of Yunnan Province and with a long history and splendid tradition, Yunnan Normal University (henceforth YNNU) is a higher institution co-funded by the Ministry of Education (MOE) and Yunnan Provincial Government and one of the 100 universities funded by the National Key Project for the Quality Enhancement of the Higher Institutions in Central and West China..
When 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 Arts, School of Science, School of Engineering, School of Business and Law, and Teachers School. After the war ended, the three component universities moved back to their original campuses in the north, whereas the Teachers School, now renamed National Kunming Normal College, remained in Kunming as an independent institution. It adopted the name of Kunming Normal College in 1950 and was renamed Yunnan Normal University in 1984. Up to now, it has produced d more than 200,000 graduates of different kinds and is rightfully known as the Cradle of Qualified Teachers on the Lateritic Plateau.
Covering a total area of 3,330 mu (about 555 acres), YNNU consists of 24 schools, two independent schools, and over 40 research institutes. Currently it has over 33,000 full-time students pursuing different degrees, from bachelor to PhD, and more than 18,000 students participating in the program of adult continuing education. Equipped with over 3.2 million books, the library of YNNU is a provincial data resources center of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), and the campus is covered by a new 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 30 of its kind, while the Natural Science Edition is a nationally acclaimed core journal. In addition, the Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language Edition, a pioneer in this field, ranks among the top 30 journals of its kind in China in terms of impact factor.
YNNU offers 10 disciplines: literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, science, engineering, economics, and arts, which are well coordinated in their development. In an assessment conducted in 2012 by the Ministry of Education, 22 of YNNU’s sub-disciplines are ranked among the top 20 in the whole country while 3 of them are among the top 10. YNNU offers 90 bachelor’s programs, 2 postdoctoral research programs, 1 doctoral program in a first-class discipline, 7 doctoral programs in second-class disciplines, 26 master’s programs in first-class disciplines, 130 master’s programs in second-class disciplines, and 13 professional master’s programs, such as MBA and M.Ed. It is one of the first 24 universities in China that offer the Master’s Program for Teaching Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages.
Through reforms and innovations in teacher education, talent development, teaching content and methodology, curriculum and credit system, YNNU has transformed itself from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research university, with teacher education as its typical trait. It has won 12 state-level teaching awards, one first prize and two second prizes in 2014. 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 76 state-level Quality Projects under construction. It is 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 built 2 state-level research platforms, the National Solar-heater Quality Testing Center, the Sino-Laos Joint Lab for Recyclable Energy Resources, 33 research bases or platforms, including the Ministry of Education’s Key Lab, Engineering Research Center, Key Lab of Yunnan Province, Yunnan Engineering Center, and Philosophy and Social Science Research Base, etc., and 13 innovation teams at the provincial and ministerial level, including Educational Innovation Team, Science and Technological Innovation Team of Yunnan Province, etc. The university also set up two provincial Collaborative Innovation Centers, the Collaborative Innovation Center for Geopolitical Environment of Southwest China and Borderland Development, and the Collaborative Innovation Center for Research and Development of Recyclable Energy Resources in Southwest China. In addition, it is equipped with two new think tanks, one for educational policy-making of Yunnan and the other for researches on geopolitical environment of Southwest China and implementation of “One Belt, One Road” program. In the past three years, YNNU has undertaken 1, 779 different research projects, its research funds totaling over 557 million Yuan, among which 159 projects are newly approved and initiated from National Natural Science Foundation, 65 funded by National Social Science Foundation, and 15 National Prestigious Key Projects, such as the National Sci-tech Support Plan, Technological Benefiting Project of National Ministry of Science and Technology, a Major Bidding Project of National Social Science Foundation and a Special Commission Project of the National Social Science Foundation of China. The faculty has published 428 academic books, 104 of them by publishers of the top class. And 834 out of the 8774 published journal papers have been listed by SCI, EI, and ISTP, and 733 by CSSCI. The university has won 122 awards for academic achievements, including 2 National Universities’ Academic Research Awards, 99 Yunnan Philosophy and Social Science Research Awards, and 9 Yunnan Science and Technology Awards. YNNU also has had 74 patents authorized, 116 software copyright registered, and three National Standard Projects approved and initiated by the Standardization Administration of the People's Republic of China (SAC).
Currently YNNU has a staff of 2373, many of whom are experts with honors awarded by the Central Government, specialists winning the State Council Special Allowance, members from the “100 Talents Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences(CAS) or the state-level “Ten Million Talents Project”, winners of the state-level “Outstanding Teacher” and “Teachers as Role Models of the Country”, and of “Young Faculty Award” granted by the Ministry of Education, candidates for the “New-century Talents Development Program” by the Ministry of Education, and for “West Light” talents development project by CAS, and important experts of the national research project of Marxist Theory. Some teachers have also won the national awards of “Model Workers and Advanced Workers”. In addition, YNNU has invited about 100 well-known experts from 40 countries and regions as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, Nobel Prize winner in physics in 1957, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing, Professor Dai Ruwei, and Professor Ouyang Ziyuan, CAS academicians, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Christopher A. Pissarides, fellow of British Academy and winner of Nobel Prize in economics sciences in 2010, Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prize, and former managing editor of the New York Times, the world-famous futurologist Dr. John Naisbitt, and Wu Jinlian, renowned economist.
Boasting of international visions and modern ideas, YNNU has been designated by the Ministry of Education and the Hanban as one of the ten key universities supporting Chinese teaching in neighboring countries. It is the Cross-Strait Exchange Center at the site of Southwest Associated University sponsored by the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, Chinese Language and Culture Education Base by Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (OCAOSC), Teacher Training Base for the International Promotion of Chinese Language, and the TCFL Teacher Training Base for Southeast Asian Countries by the Hanban, one of the first Chinese universities approved by the Chinese government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide scholarship awarded by the Chinese Government and Confucius Institute Headquarters to overseas students, one of the first National Demonstration Bases for International Education, and Education Training and Research Center for Overseas Studies by the MOE, the HSK and CFL Test Centers and authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan area. Up till now, it has set up one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms, and six Chinese Culture Centers abroad. YNNU has established collaborative ties with over 160 overseas universities and research institutes from more than 60 countries, such as Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other regions of China, including Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. It has enrolled more than 16,000 overseas students from 81 countries in the past, and currently 1,725 international students are studying here, the greatest number in Yunnan universities.
YNNU has been granted awards by the State Council, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (MOHRSS), the Ministry of Education, and Yunnan Province for its contributions to the national unity and progress, for its achievements in education, well-organized running of the university in accordance with the law, experienced guidance for graduates in job-hunting, training of teachers from elementary and middle schools, conservation-oriented operation, excellent campus culture and landscaping, and advanced grass-roots Party organizations. Students have also made remarkable achievements in the Mathematical Contest in Modelling, the “Challenge Cup” Extracurricular Academic Science and Technology Works Competition for University Students, the Speech Contest for University Students, the National English Competition for College Students, and the National Teaching Skill Competition for Normal University Students. And some students and classes and associations have won awards for their excellent performance, scientific and technological innovations and praiseworthy actions for helping those in need. YNNU’s students have won medals in the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games held in Beijing, Athens and London.
In the new stage of development, YNNU will make unremitting efforts to become a high-quality university with its unique features by implementing the strategy of “integrating strengths from all sides while sticking to unique local features” and developing a campus culture of “inclusiveness, harmony and politeness”.
