Overview
Our school, founded in 2000,grew out of the politics and law department. It started to recruit undergraduate students in 2001 and built up the politics and law school.
We offer 4 undergraduate programs, including Social work, Law, Public Affairs Administration, and Labor and Social Security. At the same time, we also boast the academic master’s degree granting right for the Social Work and the Social Rule of Law and a professional master degree for Social work. Now, We have 994 undergraduate and postgraduate students.
We currently have 50 members of staff including 42 full-time teachers. Among them, there are 13 full professors and associate professors, 7 distinguished professors, 24 teachers with Ph.D degree who are 57% of all the full-time teachers. And 10 teachers have obtained separately the awards of the excellent young expert of social science, the philosophy and social science outstanding scholars of Henan Provincial universities and others. 2 teachers have been awarded the title of the young backbone teachers of Henan province universities, 3 are innovative talents of Henan province and 3 are university outstanding teachers. Besides, we have appointed Professor Zhao Man of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law and Professor Guo Xuede of The CPC henan provincial party committee party school as our part-time professor.
Our school is one of presidential members of Henan Social Work Education Association, the standing member of groups of China social work education association , and the rotating chairman of China association of social work education (Central China). The subject of sociology is the provincial key discipline, and the social work program is one of Henan discipline comprehensive reform subject.
We have a society development research center, which is regarded as one of the most important Henan Province Human Science Research Base, and 2 philosophy and social science innovative research teams of Henan provincial universities (1 for the diversified social disputes settlement mechanism research and 1 for social governance and public policy choices). Until now, our teachers carried out more than one hundred scientific research projects in varies of fields including 10 national social science fund projects and 1 national natural science fund project. Besides, our teachers have obtained 5 excellent achievement awards for Henan provincial philosophy and social science research. We often invite famous experts to give lectures in our school and carry on regular joint research projects.
In order to improve students’ comprehensive quality and hi-tech innovation capability, our school has build up more than 40 stable outside-school training bases in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Zhengzhou, Luoyang etc. Besides, we boast moot courts and social work labs with the most complete functions and advanced equipment. Our school library has more than 10,000 books, providing a good condition for staff and students. According to the characteristics of our subjects, our school insists on enhancing students’ ideological education and often carry out kinds of human science seminars, mock trials, and social investigations to improve students’ professional competence. Among national college students’ completions such as “Challenge Cup” and “Science and Technology Culture Festival”, our students obtained many awards. Our graduates employment rate has reached 91.12%.