學(xué)校設(shè)有中文、數(shù)學(xué)與計算機(jī)科學(xué)、外語與旅游、物理與信息技術(shù)、化學(xué)與工程技術(shù)、音樂、美術(shù)、政治經(jīng)濟(jì)、教育與管理等9個系，是一所有文化教育、藝術(shù)設(shè)計傳媒、生化與藥品、電子信息、財經(jīng)、旅游、公共事業(yè)、法律、材料與能源、土建、農(nóng)林牧漁等11個專業(yè)大類45個專業(yè)（方向）的綜合性院校，是“幼兒教師國家級培訓(xùn)計劃”項(xiàng)目實(shí)施學(xué)校、廣西重點(diǎn)培育教師教育基地、廣西小學(xué)校長和幼兒園園長培訓(xùn)基地。目前，有來自全國21個?。ㄊ小⒆灾螀^(qū)）的全日制在校生6000余人。70多年來，為社會培養(yǎng)、培訓(xùn)8萬多名本、專科人才，100余位校友被評為特級教師或基礎(chǔ)教育學(xué)科帶頭人。
學(xué)校現(xiàn)有教師482人，其中專任教師390人，正高職稱30人、副高職稱115人，高級職稱教師占專任教師的37.2 %；有博士（含在讀博士生）23人、碩士143人；有自治區(qū)級教學(xué)團(tuán)隊(duì)3個、自治區(qū)教學(xué)名師1人。
學(xué)校堅(jiān)持以提高教學(xué)質(zhì)量為中心，積極推進(jìn)教育教學(xué)改革，努力提升科研服務(wù)地方社會經(jīng)濟(jì)發(fā)展的能力。近年來，主持國家社科基金項(xiàng)目等國家級項(xiàng)目4個，省部級項(xiàng)目81個；有中央財政支持高等職業(yè)學(xué)校提升專業(yè)服務(wù)產(chǎn)業(yè)發(fā)展能力項(xiàng)目2個、廣西高等學(xué)校特色專業(yè)及課程一體化建設(shè)項(xiàng)目6個、教師教育國家級精品資源共享課程1門、自治區(qū)級精品課程10門、自治區(qū)示范性高等職業(yè)教育實(shí)訓(xùn)基地2個；2012年獲自治區(qū)級教學(xué)成果獎6項(xiàng)、廣西社會科學(xué)優(yōu)秀成果獎4項(xiàng)；2011、2012年參加全國多媒體課件大賽獲一等獎1個、二等獎2個，三等獎1個。
學(xué)校秉承首任校長唐現(xiàn)之先生的“藝術(shù)興學(xué)”主張，積淀形成了“秉承藝術(shù)興學(xué)傳統(tǒng)，以藝術(shù)教育為平臺，全面提高學(xué)生綜合素質(zhì)，服務(wù)地方經(jīng)濟(jì)文化建設(shè)”的辦學(xué)特色，在廣西?？圃盒Ｖ新氏乳_設(shè)音樂、美術(shù)專業(yè)，是廣西培養(yǎng)基礎(chǔ)教育藝術(shù)師資和藝術(shù)人才的重點(diǎn)院校，在廣西區(qū)內(nèi)外享有較高聲譽(yù)。在非藝術(shù)專業(yè)中廣泛開設(shè)藝術(shù)類課程，提高學(xué)生的藝術(shù)修養(yǎng)和人文素質(zhì)。
學(xué)校堅(jiān)持以服務(wù)為宗旨，以就業(yè)為導(dǎo)向，走產(chǎn)學(xué)研合作教育發(fā)展道路。學(xué)生參加全國大學(xué)生數(shù)學(xué)建模競賽多次獲全國一等獎，參加“全國大學(xué)生英語競賽”和“CCTV演講比賽”，多人次獲特等、一等獎，代表廣西參加教育部舉辦的“珠江鋼琴”全國高校音樂教育專業(yè)五項(xiàng)全能基本功大賽，獲得?？平M團(tuán)體總分第二名1個、第三名2個，2012年獲全國第三屆大學(xué)生藝術(shù)展演一等獎。畢業(yè)生就業(yè)率連續(xù)三年達(dá)到95%以上，居廣西同類院校前列。
近年來，學(xué)校各方面工作呈現(xiàn)快速發(fā)展的趨勢，2007年獲全國首批國家級語言文字規(guī)范化示范校稱號，2008年獲教育部高職高專院校人才培養(yǎng)工作水平評估優(yōu)秀學(xué)校，2010年獲全國學(xué)校藝術(shù)教育先進(jìn)單位，2011年獲全國普通話培訓(xùn)測試先進(jìn)單位。學(xué)校榮獲自治區(qū)文明單位、自治區(qū)和諧學(xué)校、廣西高等學(xué)校安全文明校園、廣西衛(wèi)生優(yōu)秀學(xué)校、廣西高校教學(xué)改革與管理先進(jìn)單位等稱號。
展望未來，學(xué)校將立足桂林，服務(wù)廣西，輻射全國，秉承“勤學(xué)慎思，明德篤行”的校訓(xùn)，加快建設(shè)“特色鮮明、水平較高的綜合性地方院校”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)
