曲靖师范学院位于我国第三大河珠江的发源地、云南省第二大城市、爨文化的故乡、“全国十佳宜居城市”——曲靖市。学校2007年6月以“良好”成绩通过了教育部本科教学工作水平评估，2010年成为云南省优质生源高校，2012年和2015年连续被中央文明委命名表彰为“全国文明单位”，2017年6月通过教育部本科教学工作审核评估，2018年10月成为云南省2018—2020年硕士学位授予单位培育学校。
自2000年升本以来，在省委、省政府、市委、市政府的大力支持下，学校为地方经济和社会发展培养各类高级应用人才5万余人，赢得了“千里珠江，源头起航；园丁摇篮，桃李芬芳”的美好赞誉，已发展成为曲靖教育发展的龙头、合格师资培养的重要基地、先进文化建设的重要窗口。
办学历史文化积淀厚重。学校办学历史最早可追溯至1907年开办的“师范传习所”，之后，几经调整变迁。1912年设置云南省立第三师范学校，1956年更名为曲靖师范学校，1977年招收昆明师范学院曲靖普通（本科）班，1978年成立曲靖师范专科学校（1993年更名为曲靖师范高等专科学校），1984年建立曲靖教育学院。2000年3月经教育部批准，曲靖师范高等专科学校、曲靖教育学院、曲靖师范学校合并组建曲靖师范学院。一代代曲师人不忘初心，砥砺前行，熔铸形成了“苦乐交融育英才，百年树人铸精魂”的曲师精神。
办学基本条件不断改善。现有校本部、古城、环东三个校区，校园面积1399亩，校舍面积38.32万平方米，图书馆馆藏文献总量250余万册，电子图书资源量近10万GB；固定资产总值8.85亿元，其中教学科研仪器设备总值1.42亿元。学校荣获省市“平安校园”“园林绿化先进单位”称号。
师资队伍建设成效明显。现有在职教职员工1049人，其中博士186人（含在读）。有专任教师779人，正高职称教师84人，副高职称教师253人，高级职称教师占到专任教师的43.26%，硕博教师占专任教师77.40%。专任教师中有88位受聘担任上海师范大学、云南大学、云南师范大学等高校硕士生导师。教师中有享受国务院特殊津贴专家，省突、省贴知名专家，省级教学名师、优秀教师，省中青年学术和技术带头人及后备人才等共26人，入选云南省“两个计划”16人。有云南省级名师工作室6个，长年聘任校外兼职教授65人，外籍教师8人。
学科专业特色鲜明。学校设有18个教学科研机构、6个教辅机构，建成了一批有特色的专业，形成了多学科发展格局。有8个省级重点学科，其中1个云南省高原学科，3个硕士学位授权立项建设学科，2个优势特色重点学科。设有全日制本科专业59个（含师范类专业19个），成人教育专业9个。专业涉及经济学、法学、教育学、文学、历史学、理学、工学、管理学、艺术学9大学科门类。建有国家高等学校特色（重点）专业1个、云南省高等学校特色（重点）专业5个，省级精品课程12门。有云南省“支持产业升级重点专业群”立项建设项目2项、创新创业教育改革试点学院建设项目及创新创业教育实践基地建设项目各1项，云南省高水平师资队伍建设项目2项、黄大年式教学团队1个，云南省实验教学示范中心3个、虚拟仿真实验教学项目2项、经济学卓越人才协同育人计划1项，国家和省级教学质量工程项目175项。2019年，学校入选“国家语言文字推广基地”，成为“省级重点马克思主义学院”建设单位，10个专业入选省级一流本科专业建设点，学校学科专业建设取得明显进步。
人才培养质量不断提高。面向全国26个省(市、区)招生，现有全日制本科在校生15000余人。历届校友中，涌现出了在中国革命和建设中做出贡献的徐文烈将军、《在太行山上》的词作者桂涛声、抗日名将王甲本；“全国三八红旗手”、党的十八大代表胡艳，“云南省教育风云人物”“云南省百优校长”郭跨存，“全国优秀大学生援教教师”“云南省教育风云人物”梁春林，“全国模范教师”徐瑞等大批优秀人才。学生在国家级、省级以上学科专业竞赛、科技创新竞赛中的获奖人数逐年上升，获国家和省部级奖项744项，创新创业项目获国家和省部级资助56项。
在毕业生考取硕士研究生的学校中，清华大学、北京大学等“双一流”高校的比例约占30%。就业率一直保持在90%以上，先后荣获全省就业工作目标责任考核一等奖11次，被评为云南省高校毕业生就业典型经验高校和云南省创新创业典型
经验高校。大学生“三下乡”社会实践活动连续获中宣部、团中央表彰。学校获“云南省社会主义核心价值观教育示范学校”和“云南省第二批‘三全育人’综合改革试点高校”称号。在2020年软科中国最好大学排名中全国排名387位、西部高校第81位、云南第10位。学校获评云南省2019年度教育综合考核“优秀”等次。
科研创新能力不断增强。建有国家体育总局研究基地1个、国家语委语言文字推广基地1个、省哲学社会科学研究基地1个、高校重点实验室3个，省哲学社会科学创新团队2个、高校科技创新团队4个，省级教学团队5个，省级人才培养模式创新实验示范区2个；主持国家级项目67项，出版专著、编著、艺术作品集和主编教材400余部，公开发表论文10000余篇；获得省、部级各类优秀成果奖98项，省部级以上各类教育教学奖117项，曲靖市社会科学优秀成果奖171项，曲靖市文学艺术创作政府奖24项，产生了一批高水平研究成果。
服务经济社会发展能力不断提升。近五年，完成了“曲靖市主导产业培育研究”“曲靖市产业转型升级研究”等课题10余项，承担了“曲靖市经济发展蓝皮书”等专项课题，为政府和相关部门提供了重要的决策参考。以校友桂涛声为原型创作的纪念抗战胜利70周年大型歌剧《涛声依旧》以及为纪念红军长征胜利80周年排演的歌剧《年轻的脚步》，成功公演并获得好评，为艺术教学改革和协同创新创造了典型经验。成功举办国家艺术基金项目《丝路华彩——西南少数民族水彩艺术展》“西南丝绸之路”和“海上丝绸之路”巡展，展示了西南地区的水彩艺术成果与我校艺术教育、人才培养成果。推进爨文化传承创新，对“南碑瑰宝”爨龙颜碑和爨宝子碑进行数字化研发，2017年11月，“曲师二爨培生字库”正式上线；2020年6月，“曲师大爨建国字库”上线，《爨体书法字库》首发。
国际化办学逐步深入。成立了“云南省出国留学预备学院曲靖分院”，成为云南省人民政府第三批华文教育基地，与泰国清迈大学、美国宾州曼斯菲尔德大学、爱尔兰沃特福德理工学院、新西兰商学院和林肯大学等合作开展“2+2”“3+1”“3+1+1”等多种形式的联合人才培养项目；近年来与英、美、加、澳、新、法、爱尔兰等国家和地区的多所高校和教育机构建立了正式交流合作关系，长期聘请英、美、加、泰等国外教到校任教，招收长短期留学生1000余人，在泰国挂牌建立了“汉语国际教育中心”，国际化办学水平逐年提高。
“十三五”期间，学校全面贯彻党的教育方针，始终坚持以立德树人为根本，聚焦质量和内涵建设，彰显师范特色，深化综合改革、推动转型提质、坚持文化铸魂、推进依法治校、全面从严治党，不断增强学校的综合实力和核心竞争力，在人才培养、科学研究、社会服务、文化传承创新等方面取得了显著成绩，为学校事业发展奠定了坚实基础。
展望“十四五”，学校将进一步明确“师范性、教学型，地方性、应用型”的办学定位，厚植教师教育特色，主动融入国家发展和云南省经济社会发展战略，建设一流本科，提升学科建设水平，实现内涵特色发展，建设特色鲜明的地方高水平应用型大学。
Qujing Normal University
Qujing Normal University is located in Qujing City, the birthplace of the Pearl River (i.e. the Zhujiang River and the third longest river in China), the second largest city in Yunnan, hometown of Cuan Culture, and one of the “Top Ten Livable Cities in China”. In 2007, it received a B rating in the undergraduate education accreditation by the Ministry of Education, and since 2010 it has been one of the universities enrolling high-quality students in Yunnan Province. From 2012 to 2015, it was successively named and commended as a “National Civilized Unit” by the Central Civilization Commission. In 2017, it passed the review and evaluation of undergraduate teaching work by the Ministry of Education. In 2018, it became a provincial construction unit for master's degree granting during 2018 to 2020.
Since its upgrading to a degree-granting institution in 2000, Qujing Normal University has trained more than 50,000 senior applied talents for local economic and social development under the support of Party committees and governments at different levels. It has won the beautiful reputation of taking root in the source of the long Pearl River and being the cradle for thousands of teachers and instructors. Now, it has become the leader of Qujing's education development, an important base for cultivating qualified teachers and a main window of advanced culture construction.
Qujing Normal University has a long history and profound cultural heritage. Its history can be traced back to 1907 when the “Teacher Training School” was set up, and it turned into Yunnan Provincial Third Normal School in 1912. It was renamed as Qujing Normal School in 1956, and Qujing full-time (undergraduate) programs of Kunming Teachers College started recruitment in the school in 1977. On the basis of the school, Qujing Teachers College was established in 1978, and the college name was changed to Qujing Senior Teachers College in 1993. As approved by the Ministry of Education in March 2000, Qujing Senior Teachers College, Qujing Education College (which was established in 1984) and Qujing Normal School was merged to form Qujing Normal University. Generations of teachers and students have remained true to their original aspiration and forged ahead, thus forming the University's spirit of “Cultivating talents with joys and hardships, Fostering a noble soul through persistent efforts”.
Basic conditions for school running have been continuously improved. Qujing Normal University hast three campuses: the Main Campus, Gucheng Campus and Huandong Campus. It covers a total area of 1,399 mu (about 230.31 acres), with a school building area of 383,200 square meters. The university library is stocked with over 2.5 million books and nearly 100,000 GB of e-book resources. The University's fixed assets total to RMB 885 million Yuan, including a total value of teaching and scientific research-related equipment and facilities that amount to RMB 142 million Yuan. The University has won the titles of “Safe Campus” and “Advanced Unit of Landscaping”.
Remarkable results have been achieved in the construction of teaching staff. Qujing Normal University currently has 1049 in-service faculty and staff, 186 of whom are PhDs (including PhD graduate students). There are 779 full-time teachers, including 84 teachers with senior titles and 253 teachers with deputy senior titles. This means that teachers with senior and deputy senior titles make up 43.26% of the full-time teachers, and teachers with a Master's or doctoral degree account for over 77.40%. Among the full-time teachers, 88 are employed as master's degree graduate supervisors in universities like Shanghai Normal University, Yunnan University and Yunnan Normal University; 26 teachers are titled as national or provincial outstanding experts and teachers who enjoy special expert allowance granted by the State Council or the provincial government, and are listed as provincial middle and young aged academic and technical leaders and backup talents; and 16 teachers are selected into the “two plans” of Yunnan Province. In addition, the University has 6 workshops for distinguished teachers of Yunnan Province and employs 65 part-time professors and 8 foreign experts throughout the year.
Discipline and major structure with distinctive characteristics has been well established. Qujing Normal University currently has 18 teaching and research institutions and 6 teaching auxiliary institutions, and has built a considerable number of characteristic majors, forming a multi-disciplinary development pattern. There are 8 provincial-level key disciplines including 1 plateau discipline of Yunnan Province, 3 construction disciplines for Master's degree programs, and 2 key disciplines with advantages and characteristics. Besides, the University has 59 full-time undergraduate majors (including 19 teacher-training majors), and 9 adult education majors. The bachelor’s degree programs cover 9 major disciplines, namely economics, law, pedagogy, literature, history, natural science, engineering, management, and arts. The university provides 1 national characteristic (key) major for institutions of higher learning, 5 characteristic (key) majors for universities in Yunnan Province and 12 provincial excellent courses; it has 2 provincial construction projects of “Key Specialty Groups to Support Industrial Upgrading”, 1 provincial construction project for pilot universities of innovation and entrepreneurship education reform and 1 provincial construction project for an innovation and entrepreneurship education practice base respectively, 2 provincial high-level faculty construction projects, 1 Huang Danian teaching team in Yunnan Province, 3 Yunnan provincial experimental teaching demonstration centers, 2 provincial virtual simulation experimental teaching projects, and 1 provincial collaborative education program for outstanding talents in economics. There are 175 national and provincial teaching quality projects. In 2019, the University was selected as the “National Language and Character Promotion Base” and became a construction unit of “Yunnan Provincial Key Marxist College”, and its 10 majors were selected as provincial first-class undergraduate specialty construction sites. Obviously, remarkable progress has been made in the construction of disciplines and specialties.
Quality of talent cultivation is improved continually. Enrolling students from 26 provinces (municipalities and regions) throughout China, Qujing Normal University presently has more than 15,000 full-time students on campus. Among its large number of well-known alumni, some representatives were General Xu Wenlie, who contributed a great deal to the national revolution and construction cause; Gui Taosheng, lyricist of the song titled “On the Taihang Mountain”; Wang Jiaben, a renowned military general during the Anti-Japanese War; Miss Hu Yan, who has won the title of “A National Red-Banner Pacesetter” and was chosen as a representative of the 18th CPC National Congress; Mr. Guo Kuacun, who has won the titles of “Man of the Hour for Education in Yunnan” and “Top Hundred Well-known Principals in Yunnan”; Mr. Liang Chunling, who has won the titles of “National Outstanding College Students Aiding Education” and “Man of the Hour for Education in Yunnan”; and Miss Xu Rui, who was awarded as a “National Model Teacher”. The number of students who have won national and provincial awards in varieties of academic competitions and scientific innovation competitions has increased year by year. Up to now, the students of the University have won 744 national, ministerial and provincial awards, and obtained 56 innovation and entrepreneurship funding projects at national, ministerial and provincial levels. About 30% of its graduates who are admitted to master's degree programs go to Tsinghua University, Peking University and other 'Double First-Class' universities for further study. The employment rate of the University has been maintained above 90%. The University has successively won the first prize of the provincial employment target responsibility assessment 11 times, and has been rated as a typical university with employment experience for college graduates in Yunnan Province and a typical university with innovation and entrepreneurship experience in the province. The “Three Sends to the Countryside” programs organized by the University to bring cultural, scientific and medical services to the rural areas have won recognition for consecutive years by Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee and Youth League Central Committee. The University has been awarded the title of “Demonstration School of Socialist Core Values Education in Yunnan Province” and one of “The Second Batch of Comprehensive Reform Pilot Universities of 'Three All-round Education' in Yunnan Province”. In 2020, it ranks 387th in Shanghai Ranking’s Best Chinese Universities Ranking, 81st in western universities and 10th in universities in the province. In addition, it was rated as “excellent” in the comprehensive education assessment of Yunnan Province in 2019.
Research and innovation capacity has been enhanced increasingly. Qujing Normal University has established 1 research base of the State Sports General Administration, 1 language promotion base of the State Language Commission, 1 provincial philosophy and social science research base, 3 provincial key university laboratories, 2 provincial philosophy and social science innovation teams, 4 provincial university science and technology innovation teams, 5 provincial teaching teams, and 2 provincial-level experimental demonstration zones for talent cultivation mode innovation. It has undertaken 67 national research projects; published over 400 monographs, compilation works, collections of fine arts and textbooks, as well as more than 10,000 research papers; won 98 ministerial and provincial awards for outstanding achievements of varieties, 117 education and teaching awards at national, ministerial and provincial levels, 171 outstanding achievements awards of social sciences in Qujing Municipality, and 24 Qujing government awards for literary and artistic creation. In a word, a considerable number of high-level research results have been produced.
The ability to serve economic and social development has been continuously improved. In the past five years, Qujing Normal University has completed more than 10 projects such as “Research on the Cultivation of Leading Industries in Qujing” and “Research on Industrial Transformation and Upgrading in Qujing”, and has undertaken several special projects like the “Blue Book of Qujing Economic Development”, providing important decision-making reference for the government and relevant departments. The large-scale opera “The Sound of Billows” created on the basis of its alumnus Gui Taosheng to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and the opera “Footsteps of the Young” rehearsed to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army’s Long March were successfully performed and well received, creating typical experience for art teaching reform and collaborative innovation. The University has successfully held the “Southwest Silk Road” and “Maritime Silk Road” tour exhibitions sponsored by the National Art Fund project “Silk Road Colorful—Watercolor Art Exhibition of Southwest Minorities”, showing the achievements of watercolor art in Southwest China and of the University's art education and talent training. It actively promotes the inheritance and innovation of Cuan culture, and conducts digital research and development of Cuan Longyan Tablet and Cuanbaozi Tablet, the “Treasure of South Steles”. In November 2017, “Qujing Normal University Er Cuan Peisheng Font Bank” was officially launched; in June 2020, “Da Cuan Jianguo Font Bank of Qujing Normal University” was launched and the “Cuan Style Calligraphy Font Bank” was first released.
International education is gradually deepening. Qujing Normal University has established “Qujing Branch of Yunnan Preparatory College for Studying Abroad”, become one of the third batch of Chinese education bases of Yunnan Provincial People's Government. It cooperates with overseas universities like Chiang Mai University in Thailand, Mansfield University in Pennsylvania in the United States, Watford Institute of technology in Ireland, New Zealand College of Business and Lincoln University to carry out various forms of joint talent training projects such as “2 + 2”, “3 + 1”, “3 + 1 + 1” modes. In recent years, the University has established formal exchanges and cooperation relations with many foreign universities and educational organizations in many countries and regions, including those in the UK, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Ireland etc; hired foreign teachers from the UK, the USA, Canada and Thailand to teach in the university over a long period of time; recruited 1000 long-term and short-term overseas students; and established an International Chinese Language Education Center in Thailand. Thus, the internationalization of school-running has been strengthened year by year.
During the period of the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan”, Qujing Normal University has fully implemented the Party's education policy and always adhered to the fundamentals of establishing morality and cultivating talents to promote the transformation and quality improvement. It has focused on the construction of quality and connotation, highlighted the characteristics of teacher training and deepened the comprehensive reform. It has also persisted in the culture casting soul, promoted the school management according to law, and made an all-out effort to strictly enforce the Party discipline to continuously enhance its comprehensive strength and core competitiveness. Remarkable achievements have been made in talent cultivation, scientific research, social services and cultural inheritance and innovation, which has laid a solid foundation for the further development of the University.
Looking forward to the “14th Five-Year Plan”, Qujing Normal University will further clarify its school running orientation of “teacher training, teaching type, local characteristics and application-orientation”, and unceasingly strengthen its teacher education characteristics. It will actively integrate into the national and Yunnan Provincial economic and social development strategies, build first-class undergraduate programs and improve the level of discipline construction so as to realize the goal of connotation and characteristic development and to develop into a local high-level application-oriented university with distinctive characteristics.
