Shanghai Normal University
| 上海师范大学 | |
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| Motto | 厚德 博学 求是 笃行 |
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| Type | Public |
| Active | 1954–1972 1978– |
| President | Ziqiang Zhu |
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Academic staff
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1,713 |
| Undergraduates | 23,743 |
| Postgraduates | 4,613 |
| Location | Shanghai, China |
| Campus | Xuhui Campus Fengxian Campus (1,620,000 m2 altogether) |
| Nickname | 上海师大/上师大 |
| Website | www.shnu.edu.cn |
Shanghai Normal University (SHNU) (Chinese: 上海师范大学) is a public university in Shanghai, China. As a key university in Shanghai city, it is a comprehensive local university with salient features of teacher training and a particular strength in liberal arts. Its main undertakings are undergraduate education with the chief aim of producing high level application-oriented talents.
Founded in 1954, SHNU was founded as Shanghai Teachers Training College. In 1956 it was expanded into two colleges: Shanghai No. 1 Teachers College and Shanghai No. 2 Teachers College. Two years later, the colleges were combined to form Shanghai Teachers College.
In 1972, it was merged into East China Normal University while the latter changed its name to Shanghai Normal University. In 1978 the Shanghai Teachers College was reestablished, and was renamed as Shanghai Teachers University in 1984. It combined with Shanghai Teachers College of Technology in October 1994 to form a new Shanghai Normal University.
From September 1997 to August 2003, SHNU successively took in the following units as its subordinates: Shanghai Teacher Training College, Department of Human Sanitation and Health of Huangling Teacher School, Shanghai Xingzhi Art School, and Shanghai Tourism Institute.
The university has 16 colleges and 81 research bodies. Other units in SHNU are, among others, Shanghai Teachers Training Center, Shanghai College Teachers Training Center, and the Editorial Department of Academic Abstracts of Liberal Arts of College Journals.
Currently, SHNU has an enrollment of 23,743 full-time undergraduates, 4,613 graduates, 14,544 night school students and 682 long-term overseas students (studying for more than one year). The university has established cooperation and exchange relationships with 182 universities and cultural and academic institutions in 30 countries and regions.
Since its establishment, SHNU has trained more than 100,000 talents. Almost 70% of primary and middle school teachers, and almost 70% of school headmasters and principals are SHNU graduates. Among them there have been figures such as Tang Shengchang and Liu Jinghai, who are entitled Education Heroes in Shanghai, Wu Xiaozhong and Gao Runhua, who are excellent school principals at the state level, and Shanghai Teacher Ethic Models Tong Yingying and Zhang Yuqing. These people are representatives of excellent students graduated from SHNU and engaged in education undertakings in China.
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