位于春城昆明的云南師范大學是一所歷史悠久、傳統(tǒng)優(yōu)良的省屬重點師范大學，其前身是誕生于1938年的國立西南聯(lián)合大學師范學院。1946年，組成西南聯(lián)大的北京大學、清華大學、南開大學三校復員北返，師范學院留昆獨立設置，定名國立昆明師范學院，1950年改名昆明師范學院，1984年更名為云南師范大學，1999年與云南教育學院、云南體育進修學院合并重組云南師范大學。建校70余年來，學校恪守西南聯(lián)大“剛毅堅卓”的校訓，形成了“學高身正、明德睿智”的校風，已形成全日制高等教育、成人高等教育、高等職業(yè)教育、留學生教育的人才培養(yǎng)形式，構建了博士后、博士、碩士、本科教育完整的人才培養(yǎng)體系，已為國家培養(yǎng)了各級各類人才20余萬人，被譽為“紅土高原上的教師搖籃”。

學校占地面積3330畝，下設23個學院，2個獨立學院，40余個科研機構。現(xiàn)有全日制博士、碩士研究生和本科生25000余人，成人繼續(xù)教育學生15000余人，圖書資料270余萬冊，是中國高等教育文獻保障系統(tǒng)云南文獻信息服務中心建設單位，建有“萬兆主干”的新一代“數(shù)字校園”。學校主辦的《云南師范大學學報（哲社版）》進入全國高校文科學報30強之列，為CSSCI來源期刊；《云南師范大學學報（自然科學版）》為中國科技核心期刊；在全國大學學報中首創(chuàng)《云南師范大學學報·對外漢語教學與研究版》。 學校擁有文、史、哲、法、教、管、理、工、經(jīng)濟、藝術10大學科門類，形成了以教師教育為特色，文理并重、基礎寬厚、多學科協(xié)調發(fā)展的學科與專業(yè)格局。學校現(xiàn)有70個本科專業(yè)，144個博士、碩士學位授權點，其中有教育碩士、工商管理碩士（MBA）等10個專業(yè)碩士學位授權點，為全國首批招收和培養(yǎng)漢語國際教育碩士專業(yè)學位研究生的24所試點高校之一。

學校通過在教育內容、教學方法、課程體系、人才培養(yǎng)模式等方面的改革和創(chuàng)新，完成了由傳統(tǒng)的師范教育向現(xiàn)代教師教育、由傳統(tǒng)師范院校向以教師教育為特色的教學研究型大學的轉型。學校擁有一批國家級教學團隊、國家人才培養(yǎng)模式創(chuàng)新實驗區(qū)、國家教育體制改革試點項目、國家級教學成果獎、國家級特色專業(yè)、國家級精品課程、國家級實驗教學示范中心、國家級雙語示范課程、國家級教學名師、教育部創(chuàng)新團隊等，擁有20項國家“質量工程”建設項目，是全國免費師范生試點改革的3所地方高師院校之一，并先后獲得“全國普通高等學校優(yōu)秀教務處”、“全國高等學校招生工作先進集體”、“全國普通高校成人高等教育先進單位”等榮譽，在教育部本科教學工作水平評估中獲得優(yōu)秀。

學校擁有一批國家太陽能熱水器質量檢測中心、國務院僑辦華文教育基地、中英太陽能研發(fā)中心、教育部重點實驗室、教育部工程研究中心、國家專業(yè)技術人員繼續(xù)教育基地、國家體育總局體育文化研究基地、云南省重點實驗室、云南省創(chuàng)新人才基地、云南研究院、云南華文學院、卜勵德美國研究中心、朗寧加拿大研究中心和“中國·昆明泛亞人才教育與發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略研究院”等。近五年來，學校共承擔了國家人文社科重大招標項目、國家“973”項目、國家“863”計劃項目、國際合作重大專項項目、國家自然科學基金重大項目、國家社科基金項目等重大科研項目100余項，承擔其他各類科研項目300余項，科研經(jīng)費近2億元。一些原創(chuàng)性的研究成果如光催化材料、抽象微分方程理論、SPT電腦測色技術、太陽能利用與開發(fā)研究、新型酶制劑開發(fā)等研究進入國內先進行列。

學校現(xiàn)有教職工2300余人，其中專任教師1600余人，教授、副教授686人，擁有國家突出貢獻專家、國務院特殊津貼獲得者、國家“百千萬人才工程”、中國科學院“百人計劃”、教育部高校青年教師獎、教育部“新世紀優(yōu)秀人才支持計劃”入選者等一批專家學者。諾貝爾獎獲得者楊振寧，中科院院士楊樂、郭柏靈、戴汝為，英國皇家工程院院士、劍橋大學教授阿馬拉通加，美國《紐約時報》前總編、普利策獎評審委員會前任主席西默·托平，世界著名未來學家約翰·奈斯比特博士等40余個國家和地區(qū)的近100位知名專家被聘為學校名譽教授、客座教授或兼職教授。

云南師范大學是一所開放的、有著國際化視野的現(xiàn)代大學，先后被教育部和國家漢辦確定為支持周邊國家漢語教學的10所重點大學之一、中國對東南亞國家進行漢語師資培訓的基地、國家首批赴海外承辦孔子學院的大學、享受中國政府獎學金和孔子學院獎學金留學生接收院校、國家HSK考試和漢語作為第二外語教學能力資格考點。到目前為止，學校在國外建立了1所孔子學院、3個孔子課堂、5個中國語言文化中心。學校已與英國、美國、加拿大、澳大利亞、新西蘭以及港澳臺等48個國家和地區(qū)的147所國外大學和科研機構建立了合作交流關系，留學生生源國達到48個。學校是聯(lián)合國教科文組織在中國西南地區(qū)的中學英語師資培訓基地和云南省目前具有對港澳臺招生權的兩所高校之一。

學校先后被國務院授予“民族團結進步模范集體”稱號，被人事部、教育部評為“全國教育系統(tǒng)先進集體”，被教育部評為“依法治校示范?！薄⑷珖咝Ｐ@文化建設優(yōu)秀成果一等獎單位；連續(xù)10年被中宣部等評為全國大中專學生社會實踐活動先進單位，連續(xù)5屆在“挑戰(zhàn)杯”全國大學生課外學術科技作品競賽的成績排名全國同類師范院校前10位，多次獲得全國大學生數(shù)學建模競賽一等獎、二等獎；先后獲云南省基層黨建示范點、云南省學習型黨組織建設示范點、“云嶺先鋒”流動紅旗先進基層黨組織、人才工作先進單位、德育先進集體。學校的班級、社團和個人也涌現(xiàn)出一批全國先進班集體標兵，全國“學習雷鋒、志愿服務”先進集體，全國高校優(yōu)秀學生社團，全國三好生標兵，全國見義勇為先進分子以及在雅典、北京奧運會和殘奧會上獲得金、銀、銅獎牌的運動員。 在新的歷史發(fā)展階段，學校實施綜合集成發(fā)展、堅持內涵特色興校，為把學校建設成國內一流的教學研究型師范大學，成為中國西南特色鮮明的區(qū)域性高水平大學而不懈努力。

About Yunnan Normal University

Located in Kunming which is called “City of Perennial Spring” and conceived in the Teachers College of the National Southwest Associated University which was established in 1938 from the merger of Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University, Yunnan Normal University is a provincial key university that has a long and fine tradition. In 1946, the three prestigious universities were moved back to their original campuses in the north of China but the Teachers College remained in Kunming. It adopted the name of the National Kunming Normal College in 1946, Kunming Normal College in 1950 and Yunnan Normal University in 1984 respectively. In 1999, Yunnan Education College and Yunnan Sports College merged into Yunnan Normal University. In its development of over seventy years, the university has adhered to its motto of “perseverance in personality; devotion to teaching and learning; pursuit of virtue and wisdom”. It has a fairly complete education system for offering either post-doctoral, doctoral, master’s or bachelor’s degrees to full-time, part-time, vocational, adult and international students. Up to now, it has produced more than 200,000 graduates of different kinds and is rightfully praised as the cradle of qualified teachers on this lateritic plateau.

The university covers a total area of 3,330 Mu(about 543 acres). It consists of 23 schools plus two independent schools and more than 40 research institutes. It has now over 25,000 full-time students pursuing different degrees and 15,000 students in the School of Continuing Education. Its library is the provincial center of the data resources of Chinese higher education and houses more than 2,700,000 copies of books of various kinds with a new-generation digitalized service system. The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (social sciences) ranks among the top thirty of its kind(CSSCI) in China, The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (natural sciences) is an acclaimed core journal in China, and The Journal of Yunnan Normal University (Teaching and Research on Chinese as a Foreign Language) is the first one of its kind in China.

The university offers such branches of learning as literature, history, philosophy, law, education, management, economics, art, science and technology with teacher education as its characteristic feature. Its interdisciplinary orientation helps the students lay a solid foundation for future development. It offers 70 bachelor’s programs, 144 master’s and doctoral programs, of which ten are professional master’s programs like MBA and General Education. 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 innovative reforms on teaching methodology, contents, curriculums as well as training models, the university has accomplished the transformation from a traditional teacher-training university to a teaching-research oriented modern university with teacher education as its typical trait. It has some qualified teaching teams, innovative courses, special programs and experimental teaching bases that rank among the best in China in their respective fields. It carries out some key reforms in terms of education system, bilingual teaching and teaching innovation at the national level. It has 20 state-level “Quality Projects” under construction. It is one of the three universities of its kind in China that offer free teacher-training programs. The Education Affairs Department, the Enrolment Department and the Adult Education Department of this university have received state-level honors of different kinds for their respective contribution. Its undergraduate teaching is rated “Excellence” in the teaching-quality assessment by the Ministry of Education of China.

The university has more than forty research centers or institutes at the national, ministerial or provincial levels, including a national solar-heater quality testing center, a Chinese education base sponsored by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, a China-UK solar-energy research center, a research center of sports culture sponsored by the General Administration of Sport of China, Platt American Studies Center, Ronning Canadian Studies Center, Kunming Strategy Research Institute for Pan-Asian Talent Training and Development, some key labs, engineering research centers and talent-training bases sponsored either by the Ministry of Education of China or by the provincial government. In the past five years, the university has taken on some prestigious key research projects like the National Social Science Foundation Major Project, the National Natural Science Foundation Major Project, “973” Project, “863” Project, and some key international joint projects. Its national research projects of natural sciences and social sciences number 100 plus 300 other research projects of various kinds with its research funds totaling about 200,000,000 Yuan(RMB). Some of its research findings rank among the best in China, including photocatalytic materials, studies on abstract differential equations, SPT techniques, solar-energy application and development, and new enzymes.

The university has a staff of about 2,300, of whom 1,600 are full-time teachers and 686 are professors and associate professors. Some of them are experts with honors from the Central Government, the State Council of China, the Chinese Academy of Sciences or the Ministry of Education of China. The university has invited about 100 well-known experts from 40 countries and regions all over the world as its Honorary Professors, Guest Professors or Adjunct Professors, including Professor Chen-Ning Franklin Yang, a Nobel Prize winner, Professor Yang Le, Professor Guo Bailing and Professor Dai Ruwei who are academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Professor Gehan Amaratunga from Cambridge University, an academician of the Royal Academy of Engineering, U.K., Professor Seymour Topping, former Administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes, managing editor for the New York Times and president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, and Dr. John Naisbitt, a well-known futurist.

The university boasts of its international vision and modern ideas. It is one of the ten universities selected by the Ministry of Education of China and the Office of Chinese Language Council a HSK test center and a CFL test center. It is one of the first Chinese universities selected by the Chinese Government to establish Confucius Institute abroad and provide Government Scholarship and Confucius Institute Scholarship to international students. Up to now, it has established one Confucius Institute, three Confucius Classrooms and five Chinese culture centers abroad. It has cooperation with 100 universities and research institutes in Great Britain, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other countries as well as in Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China. It has a training base for middle-school English teachers in southwest China sponsored by UNESCO and is one of the two universities in Yunnan Province that are authorized to enroll students from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan of China.

The university has won honors for its contribution to our national unity, educational development, cultural construction, moral education and legal construction from the State Council, the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Education of China and the Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee as well as from the provincial government and the local governments at different levels. Some of its students have won honors from governments and institutions at different levels for their scientific and technological innovation, achievements in moral education and praiseworthy actions for helping other people as well as other prestigious awards. Some students from this university have become medal winners in the Olympic Games or the Paralympic Games in Beijing and in Athens.

Facing new challenges and opportunities and carrying out its integrative development strategy, Yunnan Normal University standing on a vantage point and having a far-sighted view will build itself into one of the best of its kind in China with typical local features.