In July 2023, the Ministry of Education issued the "Decision of the Ministry of Education on Approving the Winning Projects of the 2022 National Teaching Achievement Award", which is a national award approved by the Ministry of Education and the National Natural Science Award, the National Technological Invention Award, and the National Science and Technology Progress Award. The award-winning achievements represent the highest level of education and teaching in China. In 2022, a total of 1,998 national teaching achievement awards, including 7 special prizes, 245 first prizes, and 1,746 second prizes, were awarded at the National Teaching Achievement Awards.
According to statistics, 1998 national teaching achievement awards, only a few colleges and universities have been approved. According to the "List of National Colleges and Universities" released by the Ministry of Education on June 15, 2023, there are 413 private colleges and universities in the country, but only 2 of them have won the National Teaching Achievement Award as the first award-winning unit, one is Dalian Neusoft Information University and the other is Shandong Union University. The teaching achievement of Dalian Neusoft Information University "Innovation and Practice of the "Government, School, Industry and Enterprise" Multi-collaborative Digital Talent Training Model Based on Digital Factory" won the first prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Vocational Education, and the teaching achievement of Shandong Union College "Implementing the "Four-dimensional Upgrade" Project and Building a New Model of "Four-in-one" Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurship Education" won the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education (Undergraduate).
Let's get to know the leaders of these two private universities.
Dalian Neusoft Information Institute.
Dalian Neusoft Institute of Information is a private institution of higher learning funded by Neusoft, which focuses on engineering and supports and coordinates the development of engineering, management, art, literature, medicine and other disciplines. The school is located in the beautiful coastal city of Dalian, at the beginning of its establishment in 2000, it clarified the application-oriented school-running positioning of the service industry and regional economic development, with the concept of "education creates student value", closely relying on the IT service advantages of Neusoft and the industrial advantages of Dalian High-tech Zone, it has built an application-oriented school-running system integrating production and education, formed a school-enterprise cooperation and win-win operation mechanism, creatively proposed and implemented the TOPCARES integrated talent training model throughout the school. The introduction of real projects of enterprises to continuously update the practical teaching resource system, with the cultivation of students' ability to solve complex engineering problems as the main line to build an education system that integrates professional education, quality education, and innovation and entrepreneurship education, has realized the complementary docking of talent training and industrial needs and enterprise needs.
The school focuses on the field of "IT + digital media + health care technology", and has built five advantageous professional clusters: computer and software, intelligence and electronics, digital ** and design, information and business management, and health and medical technology. At the same time that seven modern industrial colleges have been built, covering five major professional clusters, six major industrial colleges have been rated as provincial modern industrial colleges. The school has been rated by the Ministry of Education as "the first batch of 99 demonstration universities for deepening the reform of innovation and entrepreneurship education in the country", "the first batch of 50 universities with typical experience in innovation and entrepreneurship", "national university practice education innovation and entrepreneurship base", and has been approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology Torch Center "National Maker Space", the national engineering education center, the first private university in Liaoning Province "University Science and Technology Park", Liaoning Province to the application transformation demonstration school, Liaoning Province smart education demonstration school and other titles. It has 7 national and 8 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, and the number of national first-class undergraduate construction sites ranks first among private universities in the country. In the comprehensive evaluation of undergraduate majors carried out by Liaoning Province for undergraduate colleges and universities in Liaoning Province from 2012 to 2014, 7 of the 11 majors participated in the evaluation were ranked in the top 3 in the province.
Shandong Union College.
Shandong Union College was founded in 1993, in 2003 by the Shandong Provincial Department of Education approved into the national general higher vocational unified recruitment plan, in 2004 by the provincial people's approval of the general higher vocational colleges, in 2011 by the Ministry of Education approved to upgrade to ordinary undergraduate universities, in 2014 by the Provincial Department of Education, the Department of Finance identified as the Shandong Province of higher education characteristics of the construction unit, in 2017 to accept the Ministry of Education organized by the undergraduate teaching work qualified assessment, 40 observation points through the full vote, The Evaluation Center of the Ministry of Education promoted the theme of "Qualification Assessment Promotes the Reform of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education, and the Characteristics of Cultivating Application-oriented Talents are Becoming More and More Prominent". In 2020, 2021 and 2022, it ranked first among similar universities in the performance evaluation of the high-quality development of provincial undergraduate colleges and universities for three consecutive years. In 2021, it was identified by the Provincial Department of Education as an application-oriented undergraduate university construction unit and a smart education demonstration school creation unit.
The school is located in Jinan, the capital of Shandong Province, and has two campuses: Guodian and Yaoqiang; It has 1 National Experimental Teaching Demonstration Center, 1 National Virtual Experimental Teaching Center, and 1 Key Laboratory of Colleges and Universities in Shandong Province. It has established 1 national off-campus practical education base for college students, 1 enterprise training base in Shandong Province, and 4 vocational skills appraisal stations. It has established a college student entrepreneurship incubation center, which is a support unit of the national record maker space, Shandong maker space, and Jinan Quancheng maker space. The university has 10 teaching schools (departments) such as the School of Medicine and the School of Nursing, and 40 ordinary undergraduate majors, forming a "1+N" multidisciplinary coordinated development pattern featuring medicine and supported by engineering, literature, management, education, and art. It has 4 national first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 8 provincial first-class undergraduate major construction sites, 4 provincial characteristic majors, and 6 provincial private university advantage and characteristic major support programs.