学校设有中文、数学与计算机科学、外语与旅游、物理与信息技术、化学与工程技术、音乐、美术、政治经济、教育与管理等9个系，是一所有文化教育、艺术设计传媒、生化与药品、电子信息、财经、旅游、公共事业、法律、材料与能源、土建、农林牧渔等11个专业大类45个专业（方向）的综合性院校，是“幼儿教师国家级培训计划”项目实施学校、广西重点培育教师教育基地、广西小学校长和幼儿园园长培训基地。目前，有来自全国21个省（市、自治区）的全日制在校生6000余人。70多年来，为社会培养、培训8万多名本、专科人才，100余位校友被评为特级教师或基础教育学科带头人。
学校现有教师482人，其中专任教师390人，正高职称30人、副高职称115人，高级职称教师占专任教师的37.2 %；有博士（含在读博士生）23人、硕士143人；有自治区级教学团队3个、自治区教学名师1人。
学校坚持以提高教学质量为中心，积极推进教育教学改革，努力提升科研服务地方社会经济发展的能力。近年来，主持国家社科基金项目等国家级项目4个，省部级项目81个；有中央财政支持高等职业学校提升专业服务产业发展能力项目2个、广西高等学校特色专业及课程一体化建设项目6个、教师教育国家级精品资源共享课程1门、自治区级精品课程10门、自治区示范性高等职业教育实训基地2个；2012年获自治区级教学成果奖6项、广西社会科学优秀成果奖4项；2011、2012年参加全国多媒体课件大赛获一等奖1个、二等奖2个，三等奖1个。
学校秉承首任校长唐现之先生的“艺术兴学”主张，积淀形成了“秉承艺术兴学传统，以艺术教育为平台，全面提高学生综合素质，服务地方经济文化建设”的办学特色，在广西专科院校中率先开设音乐、美术专业，是广西培养基础教育艺术师资和艺术人才的重点院校，在广西区内外享有较高声誉。在非艺术专业中广泛开设艺术类课程，提高学生的艺术修养和人文素质。
学校坚持以服务为宗旨，以就业为导向，走产学研合作教育发展道路。学生参加全国大学生数学建模竞赛多次获全国一等奖，参加“全国大学生英语竞赛”和“CCTV演讲比赛”，多人次获特等、一等奖，代表广西参加教育部举办的“珠江钢琴”全国高校音乐教育专业五项全能基本功大赛，获得专科组团体总分第二名1个、第三名2个，2012年获全国第三届大学生艺术展演一等奖。毕业生就业率连续三年达到95%以上，居广西同类院校前列。
近年来，学校各方面工作呈现快速发展的趋势，2007年获全国首批国家级语言文字规范化示范校称号，2008年获教育部高职高专院校人才培养工作水平评估优秀学校，2010年获全国学校艺术教育先进单位，2011年获全国普通话培训测试先进单位。学校荣获自治区文明单位、自治区和谐学校、广西高等学校安全文明校园、广西卫生优秀学校、广西高校教学改革与管理先进单位等称号。
展望未来，学校将立足桂林，服务广西，辐射全国，秉承“勤学慎思，明德笃行”的校训，加快建设“特色鲜明、水平较高的综合性地方院校”的步伐。
A brief introduction of Guilin Normal College
Being located in the Two-river-four-lake beauty spot in Guilin,a world-famous tourist city,Guilin Normal College is a good place for learning and research. Guilin Normal College is composed of two campuses—Xinyi Campus and Jiashan Campus, where beautiful buildings are surrounded by trees and flowers with birds twittering around.
Guilin Normal College(GNC) emerged from the Guangxi Provincial Teachers Training School,built in 1938 with a glorious history of 70 years. Besides Guangxi,GNC enrolls students from 21 provinces in China. At present,the on-campus student number of GNC is 6441, the largest one among similar normal colleges in Guangxi. In the past three years, the employment rate of GNC has kept above 85%, stably ranking ahead of the similar colleges in the same area.
At present, GNC covers an area of 422.5 mu (about 70 acres) with a building area of 155,800 square metres. It has a library collection of over 1,184,500 volumes of books, 687,000 of which are e-books. The college stores over 36.8 million RMB worth of educational equipment. The college has a staff of 557 qualified faculty members, 313 of whom are full-time teachers.Teachers with high or intermediate titles of technical post account for 78% of all the full-time teachers. In addition, GNC has been periodically employing part-time professors and overseas teachers to work for its temporary needs.
GNC has nine faculties, including Studies of Chinese & Literature, Department of Political Science and Economics, Department of Foreign Languages and Tourism, Mathematics & Computer Science, Physics & Information Technology, Chemistry & Engineering Technology, Music & Performance, Fine Arts and Educational and Public Administration. Besides the above-mentioned, GNC has 6 teaching service departments such as Social Scientific Teaching Department, Public PE Teaching Department,Public Art Teaching Department,College Computer Teaching Department and Public English Teaching Department.All the above faculties and departments involve 42 major courses specialized for college education.
Succeeding to the spirit of invigoratingly learning by art, a belief initiated by Mr. Tang Xianzhi, the first president of this school,GNC has widely received the sermon,“Being learned with wise thought and repeated practice with noble moralities”as the general direction for all education. Among the similar colleges in Guangxi,GNC took the lead to specialize its music and art majors as key specialties and has gained great achievement. Music and Fine Arts,two faculties founded in 1985,now have become main bases in Guangxi for training foundational music and art teachers.GNC is on the rise to be an intellectual support to the economy and cultural development of local societies.
The “Zhu Jiang Cup”piano competition held every two years by the Ministry of State Education has been regarded as the inspectation show for the five national powerful skills of music teaching in China. In the year 2004,2006 and 2008, GNC was chosen and sent as the representative of colleges in Guangxi to attend the third,the fourth and the fifth “Zhu Jiang Cup”piano competition.Through a series of contests,GNC successively won one Total Score Num. 2 and two Total Score Num. 3,which brought good reputation to Guangxi colleges.
In the year 2005 to 2006,GNC organized its students to attend the National English Speaking Competition (College Student section) and CCTV Speech Contest,quite some participants won the special awards and the first place.For the National College Student Mathematical Modeling Competition. GNC participants won many awards of the second and the third places.
GNC attaches importance to the work of language and characters and gained excellent results.In the year 2004 and 2007,GNC twice won the name of “the Regional Model Collectivity for Language and Characters” and once won the name of “State-level Model School for Language and Characters", which made it a good example in the standardization of language and characters.
On the 8th of September 2008,GNC was approved as an “excellence-rank school” of colleges and high vocational schools by the Education Hall of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.Taking advantage of opportunities as well as facing new challenges, now,all staff and students of GNC are trying every effort to make a better future, aiming at larger contributions to the foundational education and economic development of the local societies in Guilin and Guangxi.
We sincerely welcome you to Guilin Normal College!
(translated by Wei Qicheng)
