2. The University of Texas introduces its location advantages.
The school is located in Dezhou, which is known as "the gateway to Beijing" and "the gateway to nine heavenly places", and has been included in the national coordinated development strategy of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei. Dezhou has a long history and is one of the birthplaces of Longshan culture. There are many historical and cultural sites such as Dayu flood control, reading platform, Pingyuan County represented by Liu Bei, the ancient canal in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the tomb of Sulu King, and a large number of historical and cultural celebrities such as Dong Zhongshu, Dong Fangshuo, Mi Fei, Dou Jiande, Yan Zhenqing, Xing Dong and Ren emerged. Dezhou is a national transportation hub city. The opening of Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway and other lines will fully integrate Texas into the one-hour life circle of the capital and the half-hour life circle of the provincial capital. The South-to-North Water Transfer Project will make the ancient canal play an important role again. On 2015 * * * *, the State Council officially issued the "Outline of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Coordinated Development Plan", clearly proposing "supporting Dezhou in Shandong Province to build Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei industrial undertaking, transformation of scientific and technological achievements, supply of high-quality agricultural products, labor export base and important ecological function zones in the south of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei". As the only city in Shandong Province included in the planning, Dezhou's strategic position of "one district and four bases" was formally established. Dezhou has business cards of China Sun City, China Functional Sugar City, China Central Air Conditioning City, China Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs City, China Auto Parts Industry City, China Excellent Tourism City, and National Health City, and has been named as National Bio-industry High-tech Industrial Base, National New Energy Industrial Base, National Renewable Energy Building Application Demonstration City and "One Circle, One Belt and One District". Undertake 52 national and provincial reform pilot tasks such as national new urbanization pilot and modern agricultural demonstration zone. Abundant regional resources provide a broad space for the development of higher education.
The development of history
The school was founded in 197 1 and has gone through three periods: Dezhou Normal University, dezhou university and Dezhou University. 197 1 In May, Dezhou Teachers College was born during the Cultural Revolution, and it went through a difficult course, and it continued to grow and develop through standardization and transcendence. From 65438 to March, 1997, Dezhou Normal University, Dezhou Education College and Dezhou directly affiliated amateur university merged to form dezhou university, which opened the road to comprehensive education. Since 1999 merged into five vocational colleges, the application-oriented school-running characteristics have become more prominent. In March 2000, with the approval of the Ministry of Education, the undergraduate Texas University was established, which marked a historic leap from a junior college to a comprehensive undergraduate university in Texas and became an important milestone in the development history of higher education in Texas. In June, 2006, 1 1 was the first batch of similar colleges in China and the first in the province to pass the undergraduate teaching level evaluation of the Ministry of Education. In September 2009, it was approved by the Education Department of Shandong Province and the Academic Degrees Committee of the Provincial People's Government as the first batch of joint training bases for graduate students in Shandong Province. 20 16 passed the examination and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work of the Ministry of Education. In 20 17, the first batch of joint training bases for postgraduate education in Shandong province was approved in the 13th Five-Year Plan, and was determined by the Academic Degrees Committee of Shandong Provincial People's Government as the construction unit of the master's degree awarding point in Shandong Province.
Subject major
The school now has 24 colleges, 3 research institutes and 72 undergraduate majors. The major setting covers economics, law, education, literature, art, history, science, engineering, agriculture, medicine and management, 1 1, forming a professional structure with arts, science, engineering and management as the mainstay, and a school-running pattern with undergraduate education as the main body, specialized education and actively developing postgraduate education. In 2009, it was identified as a joint training base for master students in Shandong Province. In 20 17, it was approved as the first batch of joint training bases for master's degree students in the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" of Shandong Province, and was determined by the Academic Degrees Committee of Shandong Provincial People's Government as the construction unit of master's degree awarding points in Shandong Province. 20 18 high-end petroleum equipment academician expert workstation was approved as "Shandong academician expert workstation".
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory 1 each, Shandong Provincial Engineering Laboratory 2, provincial key disciplines, key laboratories and humanities and social sciences research bases 7, and provincial cultural and artistic key disciplines 2. At present, there are 25,040 full-time college students and 20 adult education students 10620. Joined with Shandong Normal University, Qingdao University of Science and Technology, Xi Engineering University, Shandong University of Technology and other universities to recruit and train postgraduates, and trained a total of 1 12 postgraduates, including 89 graduates and 23 postgraduates.
Education and teaching
The school firmly establishes the position of teaching center, takes talent training as the center, actively promotes the reform of talent training mode, and continuously improves the quality of education, teaching and talent training. At present, there are 1 national majors, professional comprehensive reform experimental majors, and off-campus practical education bases for college students approved as national colleges and universities to implement the innovation and entrepreneurship training plan for college students. There are 6 characteristic specialties in Shandong Province, 4 high-level applied engineering construction specialty groups in Shandong Province, 1 pilot specialty in the training and development support plan for applied talents in provincial universities, 2 innovative experimental areas for talent training mode, 2 experimental teaching demonstration centers in Shandong Province, 3 education and training plans for outstanding engineers in Shandong Province, 5 excellent teaching teams in Shandong Province and 36 excellent courses in Shandong Province. There are 205 cooperative education projects of the Ministry of Education of People's Republic of China (PRC), 3 1 project of teaching reform in provincial colleges and universities, 1 project of scientific research in the 13th Five-Year Plan of higher education, and 20 provincial teaching achievement awards, including 4 first prizes and 6 second prizes. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", * * * has been authorized by the National College Students' Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program 13 1, and teachers have instructed students to publish 630 papers, including 3 in SCI, 5 in EI, 20 in core journals and 105 in patent authorization. Won the 4 1 prize in the international competition of college students' science and technology culture, among which our students won the international first prize in the American college students' mathematical modeling competition. There are 2579 national competitions and 944 Shandong competitions 1. 20 18 was awarded the honorary title of Shandong province school-enterprise cooperation (integration of production and education) demonstration unit.
scientific research
The school strives to improve the level of discipline construction and scientific research. Basic research has made great breakthroughs in many aspects, and applied research has strong comprehensive research and development capabilities. Relying on the scientific research platform, the school has established a number of high-level scientific research teams and spawned a number of high-level scientific research achievements. For example, the biophysics laboratory has a multidisciplinary research team composed of more than 20 experts, including young Taishan scholars, overseas Taishan scholars in distinguished professor and Shandong Youqing, and has published high-level papers in Science and Nature Communication successively, making important breakthroughs in the research of single crystal graphene biosensor technology and "donor-acceptor" photoelectric materials. On February 22nd, China Institute of Higher Education released the evaluation results of 20 14-20 18 Top 300 Universities in China, among which the University of Texas ranked 234th among ordinary universities in China. Since the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan", * * * has presided over 204 vertical scientific research projects, including 2/kloc-0 national scientific research projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation and the National Social Science Fund, 68 provincial and ministerial projects such as the Humanities and Social Sciences Project of the Ministry of Education, the Natural Science Fund of Shandong Province and the Social Science Fund of Shandong Province, and 2 outstanding youth fund projects of Shandong Province. Published 725 papers, including SCI, EI, SSCI and A &；; HCI retrieval papers and CSSCI source journals total 188. Published 54 academic works. Won 247 scientific research awards at all levels, including provincial and ministerial scientific research awards 1 1. 17 1 invention patents were approved.
serve the society
Starting and focusing on serving the regional economic and social development in an all-round way, focusing on serving the major development strategies of the country, the province and the city, promoting the transformation and high-quality development of the school, and paying attention to the top-level design and guidance of the local service, the school has successively issued the Action Plan of Dezhou University Serving Texas (20 16-2020), The Work Opinions of Dezhou University on Connecting Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei and Serving the Demonstration Zone, and dezhou university. Efforts will be made to build the school into an export place for applied talents based in Texas, a support place for scientific and technological and intellectual services, a bearing place for cultural inheritance and innovation, a reserve place for high-level management talents, and a new high-end think tank required by local party committees and governments to fully serve local economic and social development.