Xiamen Huaxia University is an ordinary university at undergraduate level approved by the Ministry of Education. It is a Universities of Applied Sciences with a history of more than 20 years, distinctive features and good social reputation. The school is located in Xiamen, a famous maritime garden city, adjacent to Xiamen North Station, a coastal high-speed rail hub station, where people flow, logistics, business flow and information flow gather.
The school was founded by former chairman Cai and other celebrities and social forces. 1993. Since its establishment, the school board of directors has adhered to the "zero return" mode of running schools, and board members do not receive any remuneration; Adhere to the public welfare and non-profit orientation, the school's corporate assets are not transferred, divided or lost, and a risk protection fund has been established. It is a completely public welfare educational institution. 20 10, the school became a pilot institution of the national "non-profit private colleges and universities running system" education system reform project; 20 13, the school became the first member of the national non-profit private college alliance; 20 14 The Ministry of Education approved the establishment of Xiamen Huaxia College on the basis of Xiamen Huaxia Vocational College, which was officially approved on April 28th, 20 15.
The school implements the principal responsibility system under the leadership of the board of directors. The successive presidents of the school are well-known experts and scholars in various professional fields, with administrative experience in key universities in China. The current principal of the school is Professor Yang Menyuan, doctoral supervisor, graduated from Massachusetts State University with a doctorate, chairman of China Human protein Organization, director of protein International Organization, member of the National protein Special Expert Group on Basic Research, and executive vice president of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.
Conditions and scale of running a school
The school campus covers an area of nearly 560 mu, with a building area of 186500 square meters. It is a modern campus integrating teaching building, laboratory, library, logistics service building, administrative office building and sports ground. The total value of teaching and research instruments and equipment in the school is 8901.2000 yuan, the library area is1.71.8000 square meters, the paper books are 7301.8000 copies, the electronic books are equivalent to 580000 copies, the available database resources are 1.08, and the training center area is 5.
Discipline, specialty and direction
The school has six departments: experimental science and technology department, information and electromechanical engineering department, business administration department and health management department. Set up 15 undergraduate majors such as food quality and safety, pharmaceutical engineering, environmental science and engineering, communication engineering, internet of things engineering and logistics engineering, as well as eight majors such as electromechanical integration technology, computer network technology and financial management to build people's livelihood science and technology, information technology and modern service industry.
Teaching staff and construction
Relying on the platform of scientific research and innovation, the school vigorously introduces and trains leaders of discipline and specialty construction and young and middle-aged outstanding talents, and constantly optimizes the age structure, educational background structure and professional title structure. A group of young teachers with high academic qualifications, high professional titles or overseas study background have served as academic leaders and teaching management backbones, forming a reasonable academic echelon and professional teaching team, further enhancing the ability to cultivate applied technical talents.
At present, there are 3 15 full-time teachers in the school, with a student-teacher ratio of 16.26∶ 1, and full-time teachers with professional and technical positions above deputy senior level 125, accounting for 39.68% of full-time teachers. Full-time teachers with master's degree or above 148, accounting for 46.98% of the total number of full-time teachers; "Double-qualified" teachers 150, accounting for 47.62% of full-time teachers. There are 82 part-time teachers, accounting for 26.03% of full-time teachers, mainly managers, professional technicians and highly skilled talents from industries, enterprises and universities.
Talent cultivation and characteristics
With the motto of "Diligence, Xiu De, Eye-catching and Practicality", the school conscientiously implements the school-running concept of "school-enterprise cooperation and integration of production and education", creates a "natural, humanistic, harmonious and simple" green campus culture, constantly innovates the talent training mode, deepens the integration of production and education and school-enterprise cooperation, and actively explores the training of applied talents. The school was successfully selected into the first batch of cooperative universities of the Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT production-education integration innovation base project, and cooperated with ZTE Corporation to establish ZTE College and set up communication engineering and other majors. JHF Digital Teaching Media Center of Beiying Superstar Group; Establish Xiamen Logistics Talent Platform-Xiamen Logistics School-Enterprise Cooperation Service Center together with Xiamen Logistics Association; Cooperate with Xiamen Environmental Monitoring Center Station to carry out grid monitoring of air pollutants; Co-build the atmospheric environment research center with the Institute of Earth Environment of Chinese Academy of Sciences; Cooperate with Taiwan Province Tzu Chi Technical College to build community rehabilitation specialty.
The school actively responded to the guidance of the state on developing mass creation space and promoting mass entrepreneurship. With the goal of cultivating applied talents with innovative ability, entrepreneurial spirit and entrepreneurial quality, the school selects interested undergraduates to set up innovation and entrepreneurship classes, sets up special innovation and entrepreneurship funds, and is equipped with professional tutors to fully support the student team to start their own businesses. At the same time, in order to support the development of students' innovation and entrepreneurship, the school allocated nearly 1 1,000 square meters of teaching practice land, introduced well-known enterprises such as China Mobile, China Life Insurance, Shunfeng and Xiangyang Plaza, and built a school-enterprise entrepreneurship cultivation base.
The enrollment of the school has been very good, and it is increasing year by year. In the past three years, the enrollment rate of candidates has far exceeded 100%, and the enrollment rate of freshmen has exceeded 90%. The overall enrollment scale ranks first in private higher vocational colleges in the province and ranks in the forefront of higher vocational colleges in the province. The average employment rate of graduates in the past three years has exceeded 98%. Since its establishment, it has sent more than 23,000 graduates to the society, and the quality of personnel training has been widely recognized by the society.
In the past three years, school students have been commended by individuals and collectives at or above the municipal level by 39 1 person (item). Among them, Fujian Higher Vocational Skills Competition won the first prize 10, 20 second prizes and 37 third prizes, and the total score ranked among the top of similar colleges in Fujian Province. Especially in 20 12, 20 13 and 20 14, he won three second prizes and two third prizes in the national skills competition.
Scientific research and application
With the goal of serving regional economic development, the school actively carries out the construction of scientific research and innovation platform and social services. Establish the Ministry of Education-ZTE ICT Industry-Education Integration Innovation Base; Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences "Huaxia University Atmospheric Environment Research Center"; Fujian Provincial Science and Technology Department "Fujian Product Quality and Food Safety Testing Reagents and Instruments Engineering Technology Research Center"; Xiamen Applied Technology Research Institute, Xiamen Key Laboratory of Food and Drug, Xiamen Environmental Monitoring Engineering Technology Research Center of Xiamen Science and Technology Bureau; Xiamen Education Bureau "Xiamen University Logistics Professional Teacher Training Base" and "Education Informatization Promotion Center"; Industry-University-Research base of China Logistics Society. To undertake the research on the sub-topic "Nutrition and Diet" of the project "Research and Practice of Talent Training for the Aged Based on the Integration of Education and Training" of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education.
Overseas exchanges and cooperation
Adhering to the policy of "going out, please come in", the school has actively carried out exchanges and cooperation with universities at home and abroad, and signed exchange and cooperation agreements with universities such as Illinois Central College, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Taichung University of Science and Technology, Qin Yi University of Science and Technology in Taiwan Province Province, Taipei University of Science and Technology, Ping Xiu University of Science and Technology in Taiwan Province Province, and Tzu Chi Institute of Technology to exchange teachers and students and introduce overseas quality education resources. In recent years, the school has sent more than 50 students to the United States, China, Taiwan Province Province and other universities for exchange and study.
Looking forward to the future, Huaxia University adheres to the principle of running a non-profit school, firmly follows the road of running a school in Universities of Applied Sciences, is down-to-earth, innovative and pragmatic, has its own characteristics, establishes its brand, and keeps advancing towards the goal of building a national first-class Universities of Applied Sciences.