浙江越秀外國語學院是經(jīng)國家教育部批準設立的全日制普通本科高校。學校坐落于中國首批歷史文化名城、著名的江南水鄉(xiāng)、魯迅故里??浙江紹興，始創(chuàng)于1981年，2008年經(jīng)國家教育部批準升格為本科高校。
學校現(xiàn)有稽山、鏡湖兩個校區(qū)，占地面積近1300畝，校園建筑面積42萬余平方米；圖書館館藏紙質圖書168萬余冊，電子圖書102萬冊。
學�，F(xiàn)有全日制在校生16000余名，教職員工1000余名，其中教師900余名，高級職稱教師占專任教師的34%以上，具有碩士與博士學位教師占75%以上，有享受國務院特殊津貼專家2人，有現(xiàn)任或曾任教育部專業(yè)指導委員會委員4人；目前擁有來自美國、英國、加拿大、韓國、日本等國家的外籍教師百余名，其中博士外教17名。
學校設有英語學院、東方語言學院、西方語言學院、國際商學院、網(wǎng)絡傳播學院、中國語言文化學院、酒店管理學院、印第安納波利斯大學國際學院、成人教育學院等9個二級學院，開設有27個本科專業(yè)，涵蓋文學、經(jīng)濟學、管理學、藝術學等4個學科門類，含英語、法語、德語、俄語、西班牙語、意大利語、葡萄牙語、日語、韓語、阿拉伯語、印度尼西亞語等11個外語語種，是目前浙江省開設外語語種最多，也是省內(nèi)唯一開設印度尼西亞語專業(yè)的本科高校，在小語種外語人才培養(yǎng)上具有豐富的辦學資源和品牌優(yōu)勢。
學校已形成了以外國語言文學學科專業(yè)為重點，以文學學科專業(yè)為主干，以經(jīng)濟類、管理類、新聞傳播類、藝術類學科專業(yè)為支撐的多學科相互交叉、協(xié)調(diào)發(fā)展的學科專業(yè)布局。外國語言文學入選省級一流（重點）學科，外國語言學及應用語言學和法語語言文學等學科為市級重點學科；朝鮮語專業(yè)為浙江省重點專業(yè)和省“十二五”優(yōu)勢專業(yè)，英語、法語、傳播學、國際經(jīng)濟與貿(mào)易4個專業(yè)為浙江省新興特色專業(yè)，英語和日語2個專業(yè)為紹興市特色（重點）專業(yè)。
學校是“聯(lián)合國學術影響”組織成員，科研、教研成果產(chǎn)出不斷提升。2015年獲得國家社科基金項目2項，獲得省部級科研項目13項，立項市級以上各類教學改革項目38項。學校教學設備先進完備，建有1個省級外語實驗教學中心，4個市級實驗教學示范中心，配備有同聲翻譯實驗室、語言實驗室、國際經(jīng)濟與貿(mào)易專業(yè)實驗室、工商管理專業(yè)實驗室、網(wǎng)絡編輯專業(yè)實驗室、視頻圖片編輯專業(yè)實驗室等教學實驗設施設備；建有小語種外語學習沙龍、外語文化體驗室、日本茶道館、實驗酒店以及SPT外語文化街等體驗異國文化的校園文化設施；建有創(chuàng)業(yè)學院，大力拓展校外教學實習實訓基地，為實踐教學創(chuàng)造了完備的條件。
學校以“打造中國民辦大學卓越品牌，建設百年名�！睘樵妇�，堅持“應用型、國際化、高水平”的辦學定位和“志存高遠、腳踏實地，立足平凡、追求卓越”的信念，堅持“創(chuàng)新、協(xié)調(diào)、綠色、開放、共享”的發(fā)展理念，以“規(guī)范治校、質量立校、人才興校、科研強校、特色建校”為辦學指導方針，重點推進創(chuàng)新驅動戰(zhàn)略、“外語+”戰(zhàn)略、學科差異化發(fā)展戰(zhàn)略、人才強校戰(zhàn)略、國際化特色戰(zhàn)略等“五大戰(zhàn)略”，努力培養(yǎng)具有“國際視野、中國情懷、社會責任感”的應用型復合人才。
近年來，學校致力于探索與實踐“12345 ”SPT應用型人才培養(yǎng)體系，在應用型外語人才培養(yǎng)質量方面已形成鮮明特色，人才培養(yǎng)質量得到社會各界和家長學生的充分肯定，畢業(yè)生初次就業(yè)率連續(xù)十年位于浙江省高校前列。在2013年浙江省教育廳發(fā)布的畢業(yè)生質量評估數(shù)據(jù)中，用人單位對我校畢業(yè)生質量的滿意度得分排名位列全省本科高校第二。
學校大力推進國際化特色戰(zhàn)略，國際合作辦學成果顯著。2013年、，在浙江省教育廳對外發(fā)布的浙江高校國際化總體水平排名中，學校連續(xù)兩年在“浙江省其他本科院校國際化總體水平”排名中摘得桂冠。目前學校的國際合作項目已經(jīng)覆蓋11個外語語種，與美國、英國、加拿大、新西蘭、俄羅斯、法國、德國、西班牙、意大利、韓國、日本、新加坡、臺灣地區(qū)等18個國家和地區(qū)的67所大學或機構建立了實質性友好合作關系，每年派出700余名學生出國（境）進行長短期語言文化交流，開展本科雙學位、本碩連讀等留學項目；每年招收外國留學生300名左右。
在“和成?育秀”校訓和“自信、和諧、競成、人文”的校園文化引領下，學校開展具有國際特色、豐富多彩的學生活動，組建了浙江省高校第一支大學生教官隊，目前有學生教官200余人。大學生教官隊承擔了學校每年的新生軍訓任務，同時也成為踐行的標桿和校園文化建設的一道亮麗風景線。9月，浙江省軍區(qū)教導大隊授予學校為全省唯一的大學生教官培訓中心??“浙江省國防教育基地大學生教官培訓中心”。
學校倡導“奉獻、友愛、互助、進步”的大學生志愿精神，全面開展各類志愿、義工服務，把社區(qū)義工作為課程納入學分，并在第二屆世界互聯(lián)網(wǎng)大會和即將舉行的G20峰會等重要場合，展示了越秀大學生志愿者的靚麗風采，在紹興、浙江乃至全國都贏得了眾多的榮譽和良好的口碑，形成了“越秀特色”的志愿服務品牌。
2015年5月13日下午，中共浙江省委書記夏寶龍同志來學校調(diào)研辦學情況后，指出：“越秀很有活力，學校的辦學目標很清晰，辦學思路很明確，祝愿今后在創(chuàng)新、特色的道路上繼續(xù)前行，發(fā)展得越來越好”。夏寶龍書記的評價，既是對學校辦學的充分肯定，更是對學校今后發(fā)展的殷切期望。
在“十三五”期間，學校將全面貫徹落實“五大戰(zhàn)略”舉措，以育人為本、學術為魂、人才為先、責任為重，堅守大學之道；把人才培養(yǎng)、科學研究、服務社會、文化傳承與創(chuàng)新之交匯融通作為學校肩負的使命，努力辦好社會滿意、學生滿意、用人單位滿意的高等教育，為中國民辦高等教育、浙江與國家經(jīng)濟社會發(fā)展做出更大的貢獻。
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ZYUFL in Brief
Zhejiang Yuexiu University of Foreign Languages (ZYUFL), a full-time institute offering regular undergraduate education, is located in Shaoxing, hometown of the famous writer Lu Xun and a well-known ancient city with rich cultural heritage. The history of ZYUFL dates back to its founding in 1981. After decades of development, it was accredited in 2008 by the National Ministry of Education of China as a four-year university.
The Psent ZYUFL comprises two campuses, i.e., Jishan Campus and Jinghu Campus, covering an area of 1,300 mu (approximately 214 hectares) with a total floor area of about 420,000 square meters. The library possesses a collection of 1.68 million conventional books/publications and 1.02 million e-books.
Presently, the University has an enrollment of over 16,000 full-time undergraduates against a teaching staff of more than 1,000. Over 34% of the 900 regular teachers are full or associate professors, and 75% have received master’s and/or doctoral degrees. Additionally, two faculty members are winners of the Special Government Allowance, while another four have been members of the Teaching Advisory Commission under the Ministry of Education. Also engaged in the university’s teaching affairs are 100 or so foreign teachers/experts (17 of whom have doctorate degrees in various majors) from such countries as the US, Britain, Canada, South Korea, Japan and so on.
The University consists of 9 colleges/schools, namely, College of English, College of Oriental Languages, College of Euro-languages, College of International Business, College of Network Communication, College of Chinese Language and Culture, International School of Hospitality Management, College of International Education, and School of Continuing Education. Up to 27 majors for undergraduates offered in ZYUFL have covered such academic areas as literature, economics, business management, and arts. The curriculum involves 11 foreign languages in it, including English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic and Bahasa Indonesia. Being the only one university with a Bahasa Indonesia language program besides other languages, the university thus ranks the first in terms of sort and number of foreign languages ever offered in Zhejiang Province, showing its potential resources as well as the competence in foreign languages education.
ZYUFL has established an overall structure of majors and disciplines which revolve around a variety of foreign languages and literature, characterized by a focus on subjects of liberal arts and accompanied by a range of academic courses in economics, business management, network communication, etc. It facilitates the complementary interaction between subjects and disciplines, enabling their coordinated growth. Consequently, ZYUFL has won official recognition at different levels due to merits in its disciplinary construction and development. For instance, the university has been ranked in the provincial list of main subjects for its key discipline of Foreign Languages and Literature; in the municipal list for its key disciplines of Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics as well as French Language and Literature. Meanwhile, ZYUFL’s Korean language subject is recognized as a key major in Zhejiang Province and given priority for support. Some other majors including English, French, network communication, and international trade & finance, have been honored as emerging majors with distinctive local features. Besides, English and Japanese have drawn public attention in Shaoxing just because of their effective application and function in the city’s economic growth.
As a member of the United Nations Academic Impact, ZYUFL has made steady progress in scientific research. In the year 2015 alone, the University had 2 projects supported by National Social Science Foundation, 13 programs sponsored at provincial or ministerial level, and as many as 38 items concerning educational reform won project approval at the municipal level (Shaoxing).
ZYUFL possesses advanced equipment and facilities for teaching and practice. It boasts a provincial-level center for foreign language experiments, and four municipal-level demonstration centers for teaching practice. All the centers are equipped with laboratories of one kind or another, such as Simultaneous InterPting, Language Lab, Lab for International Business and Trade, and other relevant apparatus as well. On the other hand, there are language salons for minority language learners, classrooms for perceiving foreign cultures, Japanese tea ceremony, and SPT culture streets, all of which help create a virtual atmosphere for language learning. Besides, the university has already set up connections with a number of major bases outside the campus for teaching and on-the-spot practices.
Aiming to developing itself into a first-class non-public funded university and cultivating open-minded talents with international vision, ZYUFL has been guided with the conception of “management with high international standard” while taking a down-to-earth attitude in daily work, so as to carry out the general strategy of “a foreign language plus a specific objective” developed by the university leadership which contains a series of detailed plans and practical measures to ensure its fulfillment.
In recent years, ZYUFL has been experimenting on the established long-term policies of its talent cultivation system known as SPT (System of Professional Talent), which is conveniently termed as the “1-2-3-4-5” mode (the codes stand for a series of feasible measures to be taken). The SPT system has proved successful in cultivating foreign language talents with high quality, and the University has received positive feedback from the society, the students, and their parents as well. A convincing fact is that the students’ Initial employment rate has been on the top for ten consecutive years in the list concerning students from all colleges and universities in the province. Another assessment of graduates’ quality released by the provincial Bureau of Education in 2013 revealed that of all the four-year universities in Zhejiang Province, ZYUFL ranked the second place in terms of graduates’ quality to employers’ satisfaction.
The University has scored fruitful results in international exchange. An official investigation concerning the overall state in terms of internationalization indicates that ZYUFL ranked first for two consecutive years in 2013 and 2014 among all the universities in Zhenjiang Province. Currently, it has established intercollegiate cooperative ties with 67 higher education institutions and organizations from 18 countries or regions including U.S., UK, Canada, New Zealand, Russia, Spain, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Taiwan, and the international collaborative programs involve 11 foreign languages. Every year the university will enroll 300 overseas students, while assigning about 700 students to colleges or universities overseas on a short term basis for intercollegiate cultural exchange, or on a long term basis for continuous academic projects that involve undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
Observing the school motto of “Harmony, Integrity, Cultivation, Success”, ZYUFL has organized a military training team, the first and the only one of its kind within universities and colleges in the province. About 200 students on the team serving as “officers” responsible for the regular military training for freshmen, which features a unique part of the ZYUFL culture. Consequently the university has been entitled as a model of “National Defense Education Base & Military Training Center” by the authorities concerned.
ZYUFL promotes the voluntary spirit of “Loving, Giving, Helping, Growing” among students and awards credits for their doing voluntary work or service in local communities or on other occasions, which has exerted positive effects, constituting a kind of voluntary service with its “ZYUFL characteristic”. A case in point is our students’ performance at the World Internet Conference in 2015. This year the students are to provide their voluntary service once more during the G20 Summit to be held in Hangzhou.
In may 2015, Xia Baolong, Party Secretary of Zhejiang Province, paid an inspection visit to ZYUFL, during which he pointed out with satisfaction that the university was making vigorous strides forward with clear and practical goals and had made great achievements. The secretary’s best wishes to and further expectations for the university will encourage the leadership and the staff to do better in future.
In the coming years of the 13th national five-year-plan, the university is to achieve its set goals with painstaking efforts and innovative practice, so as to be fully obliged to the duty of an accredited university in pursuing excellence in teaching and scientific research, in cultivating students in accordance with the requirements of the society and employers.
