Faculty
With undergraduate education as the basis, teachers training as main task and our feature, as well as postgraduate education and scientific researches as forerunners, CWNU, over the past sixty years, has attached very great importance to its multidisciplinary and comprehensive development. Up to now it has become the largest-scaled university which offers the most diversified subjects in northeastern Sichuan. Thus the university has been successively honored as an important research center of education development, a key training base for qualified middle school teachers, and the provincial training center for teachers’ further education.
The university has 1,820 staff members, including 1,274 full-time teachers, among whom there are 561 professors and associate professors, and 633 professional teachers have masters’ degree. There are 167 graduate supervisors, and 17 experts who enjoy the special subsidy granted by the State Council. One university teacher has been chosen as the candidate for the National Million Talents Project. Another teacher is entitled as the Youth Expert of National Outstanding Contribution”, and 6 teachers are honored as Distinguished Expert of Outstanding Contribution in Sichuan Province. 20 teachers are known as the academic and technological pioneers in Sichuan or potential talents. The total enrollment in CWNU has reached around 25,000, including undergraduates, graduates, international students plus adult students for continuing education.
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