曲靖師范學院地處我國第三大河珠江的發源地、云南省第二大城市、爨文化的故鄉、“全國十佳宜居城市”??曲靖市。學校辦學歷史最早可追溯至1907年開辦的“師范傳習所”，1912年設置云南省立第三師范學校，1956年更名為曲靖師范學校，1977年招收昆明師范學院曲靖普通（本科）班，1978年成立曲靖師范�？茖W校（1993年更名為曲靖師范高等�？茖W校），1984年建立曲靖教育學院。2000年3月經教育部批準，曲靖師范高等�？茖W校、曲靖教育學院、曲靖師范學校合并組建曲靖師范學院。2007年6月，學校以“良好”的成績通過了教育部本科教學工作水平評估。2010年，成為云南省優質生源高校。2011年12月、2015年2月連續被中央文明委命名表彰為“全國文明單位”。
學校弘揚“苦樂交融育英才，百年樹人鑄精魂”的曲師精神，堅持“育人是辦學第一使命，教師是辦學第一資源，教學是教師第一天職，發展是辦學第一要務”的辦學理念，踐行“剛正博愛，睿智篤行”的校訓，形成了“民主和諧，求是創新”的校風，為地方經濟和社會發展培養各類高級應用人才4萬余人，歷屆校友中，涌現出了在中國革命和建設中做出貢獻的徐文烈將軍、《在太行山上》的詞作者桂濤聲、抗日名將王甲本；“全國三八紅旗手”、“全國援藏教育先進個人”、黨的十八大代表胡艷，“云南省教育風云人物”和“云南省百優校長”郭跨存，2008年“全國優秀大學生援教教師”和“2009年度云南教育風云人物”梁春林等大批優秀人才。學校贏得了“千里珠江，源頭起航；園丁搖籃，桃李芬芳”的美好贊譽，已發展成為曲靖教育發展的龍頭、合格師資培養的重要基地、先進文化建設的重要窗口。
學校現有校本部、古城和環東三個校區，占地總面積1399.43畝。校舍面積30.21萬平方米；圖書館館藏文獻總量近180萬冊；固定資產總值6.89億元，其中教學科研儀器設備總值8797.38萬元。2004年9月建成占地1158畝，充滿濃郁現代大學氣息的校本部，環境優美，綠化面積占62.4%。
學校設有18個教學單位，4個教輔機構，33個研究機構（含4個校級獨立研究機構），1個國家級特色建設專業，有7個省級重點學科，其中3個碩士學位授權立項建設學科，2個優勢特色重點學科，2個已掛牌二類重點學科。2個省級重點專業，3個省級特色專業，9門省級精品課程，3個省級實驗教學示范中心，3個省級高校重點建設實驗室，有國家體育總局研究基地1個，省哲學社會科學重點研究基地1個，省哲學社會科學創新團隊2個，高�？萍紕撔聢F隊1個，5個省級教學團隊，2個省級人才培養模式創新實驗示范區；設有53個全日制本科專業，17個高職高專專業，60個成人教育專業。專業涉及經濟學、法學、教育學、文學、歷史學、理學、工學、管理學8大學科門類。面向全國26個省(市、區)招生，現有全日制本�？圃谛Ｉ�15000人，另有函授、電大、網絡教育在籍學生一萬余人。
學�，F有在職教職員工983人，其中專任教師726人，正高職稱教師78人，副高職稱教師247人，高級職稱教師占到專兼職教師的44.7%。專任教師中有博士學位的72人，在讀40人，碩博教師占專兼職教師79%以上。專任教師中有49位受聘擔任上海師大、云大和云師大碩士生導師。教師中有享受國務院特殊津貼專家7人，全國優秀教師1人，享受省政府特殊津貼、省各類專業技術人才專家14人，云南省高�！敖虒W名師”6人，云南省級名師工作室3個，長年聘任校外兼職教授150人，外籍教師13人。初步形成了一支符合本科教學要求，具有較高思想業務素質的教師隊伍。
學校注重對學生創新精神、實踐能力和就業競爭力的培養。學生在“挑戰杯”全國大學生課外學術科技作品競賽、全國大學生數學建模競賽、全國大學生藝術展演比賽等各類省級以上比賽中獲獎700余項。大學生“三下鄉”社會實踐活動，連續多年受到團中央、團省委表彰。2004年至，畢業生連續十一年以93%以上的就業率名列全省高校前茅，受到省教育廳的表彰。
2000年以來，學校共承擔各類科研項目1266項，其中獨立主持國家社會科學基金資助項目29項，獨立主持和聯合承擔國家自然科學基金項目10項，國家藝術基金項3項，獨立主持教育部等各類項目29項，省級各類項目169項，省教育廳各類項目320項，曲靖市各類項目45項，校級各類項目570項，橫向課題91項；出版專著、編著、藝術作品集和主編教材240部，發表論文7760余篇；獲得省、部級各類優秀成果獎78項，省部級以上各類教育教學獎111項，曲靖市社會科學優秀成果獎140項，曲靖市文學藝術創作政府獎24項。
學校積極開展國際交流與合作。成立了“云南省出國留學預備學院曲靖分院”，啟動了與泰國東方大學、美國賓州曼斯菲爾德大學、新西蘭商學院和林肯大學聯合招收“1+3”、“1+2+1”等多種出國留學人才培養項目；與英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、新西蘭、意大利、韓國、老撾、泰國、印度和臺灣等國家和地區的23所高校和教育管理集團，以及教育服務機構建立了穩定的交流合作關系，深入開展教師互訪、師生交流、學生留學和學生海外帶薪實習等項目，穩步、高效地推進了學校的教育國際化進程。
進入“十三五”，學校將以“五大”發展理念統領事業發展全局，把握地方性、師范性和教學性特點，走內涵發展之路，著力提高辦學質量和水平，力爭在專業覆蓋、特色學科、國際化程度、區域社會影響力、貢獻率諸方面形成優勢，實現學校內涵發展、特色發展、轉型發展、創新發展，把學校建設成為特色鮮明的區域性應用型高水平大學。（數據統計截止3月）
Qujing Normal University：A Brief Introduction
Qujing Normal University (QJNU) is located in Qujing city, the second largest city in Yunnan province, the hometown of the Cuan culture, and one of the Top 10 National Residence-Friendly Cities in China, and where the Pearl River, which is the third longest river in China, originates. The history of QJNU can be traced back to 1907 when a Teachers Training Institute was founded. In 1912, the Third Provincial Teachers School of Yunnan was established and in 1956, the school was renamed Qujing Teachers School. In 1977, the school began to enroll undergraduate students in collaboration with Kunming Normal College. In 1978, Qujing Junior Teachers College was established. In 1993, the college was renamed Qujing Senior Teachers College. In 1984, Qujing College of Education was established. In March 2000, the former three schools of Qujing Senior Teachers College, Qujing College of Education and Qujing Teachers School were merged into QJNU. In June 2007, QJNU received a B rating in the undergraduate education accreditation by the national Ministry of Education, and since 2010, the university has become one of the key universities enrolling high-quality students in Yunnan province. In December 2011, QJNU was awarded the prize of A National Civilized Unit by the Central Committee of Civilization Construction in China.
Carrying forward the school spirit of cultivating talents with joys and hardships and fostering a noble soul through persistent efforts and adhering to the university-running philosophy of cultivating talents as its first mission, qualified teachers as its prime resources, teaching and instruction as the teachers’ bounden duty and development as its foremost task, the university implements the motto of integrity, benevolence, wisdom and practice, and has nurtured the tradition of democracy, harmony, realism and innovation. It has made great contributions to the regional economic and social development of Qujing city and Yunnan province by cultivating 40,000-odd advanced and practical talents in the past decades. Among its large number of well-known alumni, to name only a few, were General Xu Wenlie, who contributed a great deal to the national revolution and construction cause, Mr. Gui Taosheng, music composer of the well-known song On Mount Taihang,and Mr. Wang Jiaben, the renowned military general in the anti-Japanese war. In recent years, Hu Yan (female) has won the titles of “A National Red-Banner Pacesetter” and “A National Outstanding Inpidual in Aiding Tibet in Education” and was chosen as one of the deputies in Yunnan province for the 18th CPC Party Congress. Mr. Guo Kuacun has won the titles of “Man of the Hour for Education in Yunnan” and “A Hundred Well-known Principals in Yunnan.” Mr. Liang Chunling won the titles of “National Outstanding College Students Aiding Education” in 2008 and “Man of the Hour for Education in Yunnan” in 2009. QJNU has won the notable reputation of commencing from the source of the long Pearl River and being the cradle for thousands of teachers and instructors. Now it has become a leading figure in the educational development cause, an important base for cultivating qualified teachers and a bright window for the construction of advanced culture in Qujing city.
QJNU has three campuses: the Main Campus, Gucheng Campus and Huandong Campus. It covers a total area of 1399.43 mu (about 200 acres), with a schoolhouse floor space of 302.1 thousand sq m; a high-standard library stocked with over 1.8 million volumes of books; the fixed assets total 689 million Yuan RMB, of which the teaching and scientific research-related equipment and facilities stand at 87.9738 million Yuan RMB. The Main Campus (the new campus), which was built in September 2004 and totals an area of 1158 mu (191 acres), contains all the elements of a modern university and is environment-friendly with a green space accounting for 62.4% of the total.
At Psent, QJNU has 18 teaching units, 4 teaching-supporting institutions and 33 research institutes (including 4 exclusive school-level research institutes). QJNU provides 1 national-level specially-featured undergraduate program (major), 7 provincial-level key disciplines and 3 of which are provincial key construction disciplines for master degree programs; 2 are privileged provincial key specialties; and 2 are authorized Title II key disciplines. Besides, the university also offers 2 provincial key undergraduate majors, 3 provincial specially-featured programs, 9 provincial-level excellent courses, 3 provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 3 provincial demonstration centers for innovative talents cultivation, 3 provincial key construction laboratories for higher education, and 1 research base for the State Bureau of Physical Culture Administration, 1 provincial key research base of philosophy and social sciences, 2 innovative teaching teams for philosophy and social sciences, 1 innovative team for scientific and technological research, 5 provincial teaching teams, and 2 provincial-level innovative and experimental demonstration centers for the modes of talents cultivation. Now QJNU offers 53 undergraduate bachelor’s degree programs, 17 specialties of vocational and professional training, and 60 specialties for adult education. The bachelor’s degree programs cover 8 major disciplines including economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, natural science, engineering and management. Enrolling students from China’s 26 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions), QJNU has nearly 15,000 full-time students and another 10,000-odd students of correspondence, TV and online education.
QJNU has a faculty and staff team of 983 members, among whom 726 are full-time instructors. 78 of them are full professors and 247 are associate professors, taking a rate of 44.7% of the total full-time teachers. Of its large contingent of teachers, 72 have got their Ph D degrees (40 of them are still doing their Ph D study), along with the MA/MS degree holders, accounting for 79% of the total. 49 of them are MA/MS supervisors of Shanghai Normal University, Yunnan University and Yunnan Normal University; 7 of them enjoy special expert allowance granted by the State Council; 1 is titled the National Outstanding Teacher; 14 are rated as provincial distinguished experts and are granted special expert allowance by the provincial government; 6 are titled Distinguished Teachers of Yunnan province for higher education. In addition, QJNU has 3 Workshops for Distinguished Teachers, and it has invited 150 visiting and part-time professors and 13 foreign experts to work on campus annually. The faculty and staff team, with a highly professional teaching competence, can satisfactorily meet the demands of undergraduate education.
QJNU has been laying special emphasis on cultivating the innovative spirits, practical competence and employability skills of the students, and the students have made dazzling achievements and won over 700 prizes in a variety of national and provincial competitions such as the “Challenge Cup” National Academic and Scientific Works Competition for College Students, the National Mathematical Modeling Competition for College Students and the National Fine Arts Exhibitions Competition for College Students. The University has also won many awards from the Central and Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League for its “Three Sends to the Countryside” programs consecutively in the past years. The employment rate of the undergraduate students is over 93%, ranking among the top in Yunnan province from the year 2004 to 2014 and it has won many awards from Yunnan provincial department of education.
Since 2000, the university has undertaken over 1266 scientific research projects in various fields, among which 29 are National Social Science Fund Projects solely conducted by its own faculty members; 10 are National Natural Science Fund Projects solely or jointly conducted; 3 are National Art Fund projects; 29 are solely-conducted projects funded by the national Ministry of Education and others; 169 are funded by various provincial-level departments; 320 are funded by the provincial department of education; 45 are funded by various departments of Qujing city; 570 are funded by the university itself, and 91 are horizontal research projects. The faculty and staff members have published over 240 monographs, compilation works, collections of fine arts and textbooks and over 7760 research papers. Besides, the university has won 78 prizes for its outstanding achievements in various fields in Yunnan, 111 prizes for teaching of various realms at provincial or national level and above, 140 prizes for outstanding achievements in social science research in Qujing and 24 prizes for literature and fine art works from Qujing City People’s Government.
QJNU has been actively carrying out international exchange and cooperation. It has set up the Qujing Branch of the Preparatory School for Study Overseas in Yunnan and commenced such joint talents cultivation programs as “1+3”, “1+2+1” etc. with Burapha University in Thailand, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania in the USA and New Zealand College of Business and Lincoln University. QJNU has established stable and friendly relations with 23 foreign universities and educational organizations including those from the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, South Korea, the Laos, Thailand, India and Taiwan. Faculty and student exchange programs as well as the study-abroad and overseas paid internship projects are collaboratively and comPhensively carried out, and the progress of internationalization of the university is very effectively on the way.
While entering the 13th Five-year plan, QJNU will guide its overall progress by the five notions of development (innovative, coordinated, green, open and shared by all), and stick to the regional, normal and instructional characteristics of the university, and take the road of internal development to greatly improve its level and quality of running schools. By laying special emphasis on the coverage of undergraduate programs, the construction of distinguished disciplines, the level of internationalization, the local impact for the regional and social development and its rate of contribution, the university is doing its utmost to attain the ultimate goal of building into a regional, applied and high-level university with outstanding features through internal, characteristic, transformational and innovative development. (Data till March 2016)
