East China Normal University

"Shanghai Normal University (1972–1980)" redirects here. For the former Shanghai Teachers College, see Shanghai Normal University.
East China Normal University (ECNU)
华东师范大学
Former names
 Shanghai Normal University (1972-1980)
Motto 求实创造，为人师表
Motto in English
 Pursue what we have not been taught, and practice what we are going to teach[1]
Type Public (National)
Established 1951
President Chen Qun
Students 32,000
Location Shanghai, China
Campus Putuo Campus (1072.25 acres)
Minhang Campus (2071.53 acres)
Colors ECNU Red     
Mascot ECNU Lions
Affiliations BRICS Universities League
Yangtze Delta Universities Alliance
Website www.ecnu.edu.cn
East China Normal University
Simplified Chinese 华东师范大学
Traditional Chinese 華東師範大學

East China Normal University (ECNU) is a public research university located in Shanghai, China. Founded in 1951, ECNU was the first national teacher training university of the People's Republic of China, as suggested in the name "Normal", and later evolved into a comprehensive research university.[2]

ECNU is now organized into more than 22 schools, colleges, and institutes, located in two campuses throughout Minhang and Putuo. The university comprises 3 affiliated schools across the Shanghai metropolitan area: NYU Shanghai in Pudong,[3] Asia-Europe Business School and the ECNU-UNC School of Sino-American Innovative Education in Zizhu International Education Park. ECNU also maintains a National Forest Ecosystem Observation and Research Station in Tiantong National Forest Park, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.

ECNU is often considered to be one of the most prestigious universities in China. Sponsored by the national program "Project 211" and "Project 985",[4] the university is a staunch force in the nation's research and innovation,[5][6][7] and is reputed to be the "Columbia of the East".[8] The university also has strong ties with the China Meteorological Administration, State Oceanic Administration and the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[9]

History

Qun Xian Tang in North Zhongshan Road Campus, built in 1929, meaning "a place where talents and scholars assemble".
Former Seal of ECNU.

Origins

East China Normal University traces its roots to the formation of the St. John's College (later to become St. John's University) in 1879, and its heritage has had a definite and deep influence in the development of Chinese modern higher education.[10]

In 1879, St. John's College was founded by William Jones Boone and Joseph Schereschewsky, Bishop of Shanghai, by combining two pre-existing Anglican colleges in Shanghai. In 1905, the College became St. John's University, and became registered in Washington D.C. in the United States. It was the first institution to grant bachelor's degrees in China, starting in 1907.

After the May Thirtieth Movement in 1925, some academics and students left from the St. John's University, later forming the private Kwang Hua University to support the labor and anti-imperialist movement during the middle-period of the Republic of China era.

In 1924, after a student protest at the Xiamen University in Fujian Province, some academics fled north to Shanghai where they established what became the Great China University (also known as Daxia University).

Establishment of the university

Siqun Auditorium built in 1946, named in memory of Wang Boqun, former president of the Great China University and the first Minister of Communications.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, East China Normal University was officially formed in 1951 by the merger of the Great China University and the Kwang Hua University, and was joined at the same time by a number of faculty members from Fudan University, Tongji University, University of Shanghai and East China PE Academy. This was done in part due to the government's desire to pool the these institutions' resources into a single, stronger entity, cultivate talents with professional knowledge and promote the development of education in the country.

In the 1950s, the Chinese government regrouped the country's higher education institutions in an attempt to build a Soviet-style system. Under this policy, most of faculties from Saint John's University, Zhejiang University, University of Shanghai, Utopia University, Aurora University were incorporated into ECNU to form a comprehensive multi-disciplinary university. Some of the academics at the Tongji University and Jiaotong University were also transferred to ECNU.[11]

In March 1959, ECNU was authenticated as one of the first 16 National Key Universities in China, and this status was reaffirmed in 1978. From 1972 to 1980 (during the Cultural Revolution in mainland China), it was known as Shanghai Normal University, and in 1980 its original name was resumed.[12]

Diploma of East China Normal University, 1953.

1980 to present

University Library, Minhang Campus.

In June 1986, ECNU was selected to be one of the first 33 higher education institutions authorized, by the State Council, to establish their graduate schools. In 1996, ECNU passed the prerequisites appraisal and became one of universities sponsored by the major national program "Project 211". In 2006, the Ministry of Education and Shanghai Municipality signed into a partnership for co-sponsoring the development of the university, qualifying ECNU as a member of the "Project 985" and facilitating ECNU's efforts and progress toward a comprehensive, research-oriented and internationalized world-class university.

ECNU is now a nationally renowned university under the direct auspices of the Ministry of Education, boasting one of the most beautiful university campuses in China, the university is reputed as the "garden university". The University sponsors or supervises publication of more than 20 academic journals and periodicals. The library collection exceeds 4,000,000 volumes. 25 primary or secondary schools are affiliated to the university.

The development and transformation of China and the modernized international metropolis of Shanghai brings huge opportunities to the university for its progress. ECNU is working its way up steadfastly toward the goal of establishing itself as "an internationally renowned high-level research university".[13]

International partnerships

ECNU attaches great importance to the internationalization in its development and enjoys a wide influence and reputation in the world. The university has established strategic cooperative partnership with many world-renowned universities, such as École Normale Supérieure and its group in France, the University of Pennsylvania and Cornell University in USA, Tokyo University and Kobe University in Japan, and the University of Melbourne in Australia, the University of Warwick in the UK etc., and has been carrying out academic exchanges with over 150 universities and institutions of Great Britain, France, Germany, Japan, the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Russia, etc. ECNU plays host to a CIEE satellite campus, where 100 American college students study abroad each semester. The University also runs an Online College of the Chinese language in collaboration with the National Office for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language (NOCFL), which is the first of its kind to be established in the country with over 5,800 students in 137 countries and regions. In 2008, it set up the NOCFL Study and Training Base for International Chinese Teachers.

Study China Programme

Along with several other Chinese universities, East China Normal University has hosted the United Kingdom (UK) government-funded Study China Programme for a number of years.[20] In this programme, students from UK institutions spend one to two months during summer studying Mandarin Chinese and Chinese culture at a university in China. The programme is organised by the University of Manchester and is fully funded by UK government bodies, such as the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills. Its purpose is to strengthen ties between UK university students and China, in particular as relatively few British students enroll in degrees in China each year. The programme has increased relations between ECNU and numerous leading UK universities.[21]

Diplomats' Program

Sponsored by Shanghai Municipal Education Commission and Shanghai Foreign Affairs Office, the Diplomats' Program has been organized by ECNU since 2011. In this program, consular officials from over 20 different countries spend two months during summer studying at East China Normal University.[22]

Academics

Putuo Campus central arch

At present the university is made up of 22 full-time schools and colleges, 2 unconventional colleges and 5 advanced research institutes, with 58 departments offering 76 undergraduate programs. The University also comprises 3 affiliated schools: NYU Shanghai, Asia-Europe Business School and ECNU-UNC School of Sino-American Innovative Education.

Full-time schools and colleges

Unconventional colleges

Advanced research institutes

Among them, the School of Software is the only statewide pilot School of Software at a normal university; the International College of Chinese Studies is among the eight State Bases for Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language, certified by the Ministry of Education. ECNU is designated as one of the National Liberal Arts and Basic Sciences Training and Research Bases in its disciplines of Chinese, History, Mathematics, Geography, Psychology and Physics.

ECNU's Business School was founded by the pioneer of China's Economics and Financing studies, Prof. Chen Biao Ru. Hence, the Business School of ECNU inherited the good tradition and enjoys top reputation in the economic and financial circle in China.

The Ministry of Education's Training Center for Secondary School Principals at ECNU is a state base for the training of secondary school principals in Mainland China and advanced studies of those in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. ECNU is the only university in China designated as a national training center for elite secondary school principals and enjoys the reputation as the "Whampoa Military Academy" for secondary school principals.

Research

University Auditorium.

The university is officially authorized to offer programs:

Key laboratories

It has two State Key Laboratories, one National Field Observation and Research Station, six Key Labs or Engineering Centers, and six Key Research Bases for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education. ECNU is authorized to offer 112 doctoral programs covering 14 Primary Disciplines, 178 master's programs in six specialties, i.e., Education, Public Administration, Engineering, Physical Education and Business Administration, and to set up 14 post-doctoral mobile research stations.

State key laboratories

Key laboratories of provincial level and ministerial level

Key research bases in humanities and social science

Joint Research Centre

Faculty and staff

ECNU has a faculty body of over 4,000, among whom there are 2000 full-time teachers (including over 1,200 professors or associate professors), 14 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences or Chinese Academy of Engineering (six of them are academicians of both academies), 11 members of the State Council Academic Appraisal Committee, eight specially hired professors or lecture professors for the Yangtze Scholar Award Program sponsored by the Ministry of Education, nine "state-level talents" chosen by the New-Century Talents Project, ten National Outstanding Youth Fund award winner, 80 specially hired professors or lecture professors for ECNU's Zijiang Scholar Award Program, and 105 tenured professors.

Campus

With campuses in Minhang and Putuo District totalling an area of over 220 hectares, East China Normal University has long been reputed as a "Garden University" for its beautiful campus scenery.

North Zhongshan Road Campus (Putuo Campus)

The previous main campus was located in the Putuo District of Shanghai, formerly a campus of the Great China University. The campus is an enclosed campus of gardens, lawns, and historic buildings interspersed with modern facilities, in a convenient location in downtown Shanghai. The University also provides frequent transportation by shuttle bus to its new Minhang Campus.

The campus still houses a variety of scientific research institutions, such as State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research and State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy.

The university's athletic facilities include an outdoor track, outdoor basketball courts, indoor basketball courts, and indoor tennis and badminton courts. The university lacks a traditional indoor gymnasium with running/biking machines, free weights, and weight machines.

Minhang Campus

The Minhang new campus is located in the Minhang District on the outskirts of metropolitan Shanghai. Most administrative and academic framework of the university and the majority of undergraduate and graduate students are situated at this campus, which is accompanied by the Minhang Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Notable people

Alumni

Writer

Academics

In politics

In business and media

In sport

Notable current and former faculty and staff

Alumni associations

Addresses

See also

References

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  2. ↑ "ECNU Overview". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "About NYU Shanghai". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "提示信息". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "KU Leuven seals partnerships with top Chinese universities". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Dossier/Chine Université de Genève". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  7. ↑ 徐林. "Top 10 normal universities (teachers' colleges) in China". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Universität Wien
  9. ↑ ECNU Inks Deal with China Meteorological Administration
  10. ↑ "Foreword to the First Issue of ECNU Review". ECNU. Retrieved 24 February 2013.
  11. ↑
  12. ↑ http://lxs.ecnu.edu.cn/EnFront.do?method=findContentByChannel&parentid=58&kidid=353 About ECNU
  13. 1 2 3 4 East China Normal University, China. (English)
  14. ↑ "Joint Graduate Program with ENS Group - ECNU". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  15. ↑ "ENS Cachan - Ouverture internationale". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  16. ↑ http://www.ens.fr/spip.php?rubrique8 The ENS in Shanghai
  17. ↑ http://www.em-lyon.com/en/EMLYON-Experience/EMLYON-Experience/Lyon-and-Shanghai-Campuses/Shanghai-Campus Shanghai Campus
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  19. ↑ China Daily (8 April 2012). "First Sino-US university to open in 2013". University World News. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
  20. ↑ "Study China Programme Partnership Universities and locations". Study China. UK. Retrieved 13 September 2013. External link in |work= (help)
  21. ↑ University of Oxford, The Study China Programme, 2013.
  22. ↑ "Study in Shanghai--Shanghai Summer School". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  23. ↑ State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, China.
  24. ↑ State Key Laboratory of Precision Spectroscopy, China.
  25. ↑ Shanghai Institute of Brain Functional Genomics, China.
  26. ↑ Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, China.
  27. ↑ Center for the Study of Chinese Characters and Their Applications, China.
  28. ↑ Institute of Schooling Reform and Development, China.
  29. ↑ Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, China.
  30. ↑ "提示信息". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  31. ↑ "提示信息". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  32. ↑ "提示信息". Retrieved 3 July 2015.
  33. ↑ East China Normal University Alumni Association, China.
  34. ↑ East China Normal University Alumni Association in US, China.
  35. ↑ East China Normal University Alumni Association in North California, China.

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